On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:15:33 +0530, "William Black"
wrote:
>
>"Martin" wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:29:31 +0530, "William Black"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Martin" wrote in message
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>>>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:11:17 +0530, "William Black"
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Martin" wrote in message
>>>>>news:5to9n318b99bgen0329657en2u02j9a6t4@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:49:47 +0000, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
>>>>>> _the_
>>>>>
>>>>> The P&O Hull R'dam staff have a habit of clearing away all the trays of
>>>>>bacon
>>>>>> eggs sausages etc. when the boat docks, although it is at least 30
>>>>>> minutes
>>>>>> before anybody can disembark, and whilst there are still queues for
>>>>>> breakfast.
>>>>>> In the good old days you could park your car at the back of the rows
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> the car
>>>>>> deck and have a leisurely breakfast whilst others queued at passport
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> illegal
>>>>>> immigrant controls.
>>>>>
>>>>>My experience is that they stop serving when they announce that drivers
>>>>>should report to their cars.
>>>>>
>>>>>As foot passengers can't get off for at least another forty minutes or
>>>>>so
>>>>>it
>>>>>can be a touch disconcerting.
>>>>>
>>>>>Especially if the ship docks an hour or so early and they send the call
>>>>>at
>>>>>about 7:00am...
>>>>>
>>>>>On the other hand I've never managed to miss breakfast on that
>>>>>particular
>>>>>journey.
>>>>
>>>> We have given up having breakfast on the ferry because on every trip
>>>> this
>>>> year
>>>> they stopped serving as soon as the boat docked. Maybe we use the ferry
>>>> a
>>>> lot
>>>> more than you?
>>>
>>>Almost certainly. I only use it a couple of times a year.
>>>
>>>As I sleep badly the first couple of nights in a new bed I tend to be up
>>>and
>>>dressed very early, and always waiting for the nice hot cup of tea to be
>>>delivered to the cabin door...
>>
>> ... noisy bugger!
>>
>> Tonight should be good on the ferry. Earlier this afternoon the shipping
>> forecast was Force 8-9 for Humber Thames.
>>
>
>I was on the UK crewed one in a force 8 a couple of years ago.
>
>My whisky was trembling in the glass a bit but the stabilisers seem to work
>very well.
>
>I watched a small tanker coming into Europort alongside the next morning.
Have you seen the pilot going onboard in that sort of weather?
>It was shipping green water over the bows as I ate my breakfast in what
>seemed to me a perfectly stable dining room.
In the late 1960s I sailed across the North Sea from Es. to Norway in a 26'
boat and got caught in an enormous storm half way across. It's very different
down there from the view you get from a ferry :-)
--
Martin
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