Real Rolling at sea!

[C6PT7]

You guys are doing a great job of convincing me to never go on a cruise!!! Eeek!!

Its all part of the plan for cheaper cruise fares for us!

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Love it! When I served on an LST in the USN, we were in a couple of storms when we rolled over more than 45 degrees and there were several times I didn't think we'd come back up, but we did, only to repeat the experience on the other side.

Good Mornimg,

FYI, there is a original LST still operating as a ferry in New London, ct. # 510, now named the Cape Henlopen. The ferry company is Cross Sound ferries, they have photos of her on line.

If you look at the hull, you can clearly see her lines as a LST, but the super structure has been chanel alot.

They were going to bring her to Europe for the 50 th D DAY , as she was there , but it never happened.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

2003, Alaska, Radiance of the Seas. I hadn't thought about the fact that we were coming out of the inside passage in the middle of the night to get to the glacier. I woke up, FREAKED OUT by the noises and the shifting and the rocking and swaying. Didn't know what was going on. Our oceanview room was at the bow, overlooking the helipad. I kept trying to wake up my brand new DH, trying to get his words of wisdom. His dad was Navy/Merchant Marine/shipping, and DH's first jobs were for his dad on ships, and then on oil tankers in REAL Alaska waters. He slept and slept. He wouldn't wake up for more than a "it's OK" mumble. See, that rocking just put him to SLEEP like I've never seen in him, because he misses a life at sea.

I finally got to sleep, practically sucking my thumb in a fetal position, having worked out that if stuff wasn't falling off the shelves, and the clever little storage areas were staying closed, that it was probably OK no matter how it felt to me.

In the morning at breakfast we sat next to a couple from Canada, and the wife was talking about how rocky it had been. DH launches into a fabulous explanation of the ship and how you WANT it to bend, and the creaks are part of that, etc etc, just this big long explanation, and he nearly got his coffee dumped in his lap. Where was that explanation the night before while YOUR wife was nearly in tears, Mister?!!???

I laugh about it now.

We want skyscrapers to sway a bit. We want ships to bend a bit. Even though it feels totally wrong.

Your Hubby is totally correct, the ships are biult to have some bend and those noises are just the hull design doing its job.

We had the parent of some friend take thier 1st cruise. It was apprently a rough 1 st night as early the next morning Henry was on the ship to shore telling me his wife was going to pack and get off that morning at the 1 st port unless I told her all the noises were supposed to be happening.....lol

I calmed.Roseanne down and she finished the cruise.

AKK