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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Leon on 18 December 2012, 04:31:00 AM

Title: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Leon on 18 December 2012, 04:31:00 AM
I feel sorry for Maeno if he has to use this to get to the mainland!

:D

Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Steve J on 18 December 2012, 08:11:33 AM
 :o. That is incredible!
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Post by: Kiwidave on 18 December 2012, 08:24:18 AM
That's some seriously bad swell!  :'( :-& :-&
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Hertsblue on 18 December 2012, 08:51:57 AM
Thay didn't say where it was, but if that was a car ferry of 15 - 20,000 tons then those rollers were seriously big. One thing I guarantee - all the loos are full of sick....  :-& :-& :-&
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Techno on 18 December 2012, 09:27:35 AM
Star Trek used to do it better by 'wobbling' the camera ! ;D ;D ;D
Glad I wasn't aboard !
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 18 December 2012, 10:11:36 AM
Good as a mersey ferry..... ;D
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Albie Bach on 18 December 2012, 06:01:19 PM
Crikey. :-&
If it was a car ferry I want to see the car deck.
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Genom on 18 December 2012, 09:59:50 PM
I can't remember if it's Orkney or Shetland, but there's an area the ferries have to pass through to get in and out of the harbour that has 7 different tides crashing together. I can imagine that being a bit like that.
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Maenoferren on 18 December 2012, 11:08:23 PM
yep feel sorry for poor me. IN fact you have made me have flashbacks and trauma... I need some free figs to get over it. :D
Unfortunately or should that be fortunately it isnt ours. It is a cruise liner caught in a hurricane off the Bahamas.
We do in fact have hurricane force winds up here, the winds roll straight in off the Atlantic. highest recorded was   154 knots, Saxa Vord, 
Really felt sorry for these poor buggers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11708004
you know it is going to be bad leaving Aberdeen when the master requests that anyone not having a cabin to find a safe place to lie down as they leave the harbour mouth... I kid you not!
to be honest though flights can be just as scary... imagine the dropship sequence from Aliens and you get the idea of what it can be like :o
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Serotonin on 19 December 2012, 09:31:19 AM
Had a trip back like that from Guernsey once- if you looked out one porthole in the main lounge all you could see was sea and the other sky. Then they swapped over. I dont get seasick but I came close that day.
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Post by: nikharwood on 19 December 2012, 11:55:36 PM
Wow!  :o
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Post by: Hertsblue on 20 December 2012, 08:21:02 AM
It's when they turn off the stabilisers to avoid getting them ripped off that I start to worry.  :o
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Maenoferren on 22 December 2012, 09:54:40 PM
Force 10 gusting 11 tonight. Tesco have chartered a C130 Hercules to get our food in.
Title: Re: A good reason for flying to Shetland!
Post by: Hertsblue on 29 December 2012, 02:23:48 PM
Yeah, three nights at the very tip of Cornwall in a caravan have stopped me from sleeping much.  #:-S
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Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 29 December 2012, 04:03:22 PM
Wimp - sleep in the Awning on top of a Yorkshire moor.

IanS