Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

I thought one of the main reasons for using Cats was their stability on the two pontoons?......................

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Catamarans have a very different motion through the water compared with monohulls, especially if the swell is diagonal to the direction of travel. Then they tend to hobby horse in 2 dimensions and people easily get crook.

I came back from some meetings in Tas on the cat once while it was running. Aircraft style seats in a huge lounge area.

The sleeves in the back of the seats were stuffed to capacity with sick bags, maybe 3 times more than I've ever seen on a plane.

Swell was very small and diagonal to direction of travel so there was a bit of hobby horsing going on. No one was crook but many were obviously uncomfortable. Was tempted to fake a chunder and get the chain reaction going but wife at the time strongly disapproved.

The weather for the trip this day across Bass Strait was as good as it gets really, so it is not surprising the service didn't last.

DL

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Originally Posted by 350RRC

Catamarans have a very different motion through the water compared with monohulls, especially if the swell is diagonal to the direction of travel. Then they tend to hobby horse in 2 dimensions and people easily get crook.

I came back from some meetings in Tas on the cat once while it was running. Aircraft style seats in a huge lounge area.

The sleeves in the back of the seats were stuffed to capacity with sick bags, maybe 3 times more than I've ever seen on a plane.

Swell was very small and diagonal to direction of travel so there was a bit of hobby horsing going on. No one was crook but many were obviously uncomfortable. Was tempted to fake a chunder and get the chain reaction going but wife at the time strongly disapproved.

The weather for the trip this day across Bass Strait was as good as it gets really, so it is not surprising the service didn't last.

DL

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That is interesting 350. Thanks. Of course, they would want to screw & twist their way along.
Just heard on the news that the Cape Jervis to Kangaroo Island has been cancelled for today due to existing rough seas from yesterday, also a Cat when I last heard.


I won't even attempt to tell you about a trip on the RO-RO MV Troubridge yonks a go on the same route. Well from Port Adelaide, not Cape Jervis. I wish they had that many sick bags then as your one but if they had taken Meat Pies & Pasties off the menu the day before they wouldn't have needed them which they willingly served while still navigating the Inner Port River. Nice & calm & smooth in there. I guess the Purser/Bar Manager was on a bloody good earner. Instead they had plenty of Mops.

Get to Outer Harbour & it was a very different story. Plenty of BiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiLL & Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuths.


Well that is another "Foreign Country" off my Must Do list, post Covid.[bigrolf]

Hi,
A cross swell on the KI cat had the bar stools twirling. A most chunderous motion, but the sea looked not to be all that bad.
But hey! I get sick in a canoe on a damp lawn.
Cheers

There is a reason why Green Island off Cairns is named Green , that is the colour of most people doing the day trip either on the way over or back. The Co is smart the sell the tickets for the class bottom boats before you leave the main land but most are feeling to sick when they arrive to use them & no refund. Once the first person askes for a bag every one wants one. This was back in 74 , I guess they are using more stable boats now.

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Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
A cross swell on the KI cat had the bar stools twirling. A most chunderous motion, but the sea looked not to be all that bad.
But hey! I get sick in a canoe on a damp lawn.
Cheers

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[bigrolf]

Or as someone else said somewhere "on a Sponged Carpet to remove stains".[bigrolf]

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

There is a reason why Green Island off Cairns is named Green , that is the colour of most people doing the day trip either on the way over or back. The Co is smart the sell the tickets for the class bottom boats before you leave the main land but most are feeling to sick when they arrive to use them & no refund. This was back in 74 , I guess they are using more stable boats now.

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.....or the ACCC have taken them to task?

Hi,
The nicest motion I have experienced was on a ferro-cement yacht. Pitch without yaw is not too bad (for a while). The most disconcerning thing was seeing the water rising and falling in the galley sink as we passed through the swell. That thing just wanted to go straight to the bottom at the first opportunity it got.
Cheers

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This off-topic discussion reminds me of a late friend - he was going to visit my (11m) boat, which was tied up to a floating dock, with a ramp to dry land to accomosdate tidal movement. This was in a marina on Westernport (V). As soon as he stepped onto the ramp, he literally turned green, and hastily turned round back onto terra firma. I have never seen anything like it.

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Originally Posted by Saitch

Helen and I went across in 1998, the same time as the worst Sydney-Hobart yacht race, in 7-8 metre seas. It was a interesting voyage, to say the least.
The big, red, cat ferry that was also in operation then, had to remain in port.

In saying this, with the recent article, I am thinking that one or two waves may have been recorded around the 12 metre mark on measuring equipment but, I don't reckon I saw one in the vid!
Still a trip to talk about, though![bigsmile]

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Over night on the 3/4 Feb 2005 was the big one on the Spirit, which had to turn back after windows were broken, etc. A storm and swell was predicted, but no forecaster got the duration (3 days) and the size right.

The ocean off Anglesea, where I was working 3 months later, was still a strange milky colour.

DL