Bit choppy out at sea then.

A violent wave passing Z-181 on its way to Harlingen, yesterday with Beaufort 9

I bet their tea got spilt.

Fishermen don’t spill tea – fact

I was about to say that that lookes very dangerous with the wave pushing the boat forwards but then I realised that the wave is going away from the camera. Nothing a boat like that can’t handle, then.

Can be lumpy, yes..

They need to lean back a bit more to stop the nose digging in.

Some more fun ones:

That last one really isn’t funny. 🙂 – was the Borgholm dolphin yes ?

Was on here about 8months after this -they showed us the gopro footage of them hiding in the refuge -hoooooley bejesus it looked scary never seen such listing on such a big vessel.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/concerns-for-wa-drill-rig-workers-in-path-of-tropical-cyclone-quang-ng-88171427e157278a635c6d3151a67808.amp

TR, the Borgholm is a flotel so deffo not that semi.
A wee bit of rockin and rolling is good fun! There is a cracking old pic of the Santa Fe 135 in rough seas at a bit of an odd angle of dangle! 😮

Can’t have a thread about flat chat Yacht Racing without a bit of IMOCA..

BanqPop and Hugo flat-out near the Kerguelen Islands..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKT2JdbTE98

You are indeed right , never been on it. It was just the one that all the videos have been showing of it taking a silly big battering of. Never saw what it looked like looking back at the rig.

I’ve only ever been stuck on jack ups in the big stuff 🙁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzSkFlsILc

It’s when there is land as well as waves that the problems really start

And this is why I am never  ever going on a boat.

I was about to say that that lookes very dangerous with the wave pushing the boat forwards but then I realised that the wave is going away from the camera. Nothing a boat like that can’t handle, then.

Pretty sure that wave is coming from astern, looking at how the crest is blowing spray in that direction.

Back in my RNR days I did a stint on a fishery protection boat about this time of year. We wandered around the North Sea in a force 10 for a while before someone realised there actually weren’t any fishing boats out in the weather and we heading into harbour.

I quite enjoyed it – especially as I think I was the only officer on board who wasn’t suffering from seasickness. I might have been overly smug about that so was punished by being left in charge of the ship for the entire time we were in harbour – while all the other officers went on the piss.

Here’s the pier I go fishing on. Seaham, Co. Durham.

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Not when It’s like that though!

Ahh memories of the Biscay in November, beam on lea shore rock n roll in a Kerr40 heading to the Med for winter 🤮😜🤮🤮🤮🤮

I was out once in the tail end of a North Queensland cyclone in my gaff rigged ketch with shifting ballast. Quite exciting. My wife never set foot on it again so I got rid of it and got a Laser.

Beauty was the decks were absolutely spotless afterwards. 🙂

gobuchul wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzSkFlsILc
It’s when there is land as well as waves that the problems really start

I’m sure that will polish out

I was out once in the tail end of a North Queensland cyclone in my gaff rigged ketch with shifting ballast

Pics? Of the boat, not the wife.

Has anyone listened to the audio on the NZ Navy clip, judging by the alarms and commentary after the wave hits they may have got some water into places they shouldn’t have!

These photos scare the life out of me!