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To: Windflier

I have been onboard a couple of vessels in sea’s like
this and I always wondered why the welds that held the
steel plates together didn’t pop when she would drop
into a forty foot trough over and over again.
you don’t get a lot of sleep waiting to get through one
of these monsters.


3 posted on 05/11/2012 9:50:48 PM PDT by Pompah
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To: Pompah
you don’t get a lot of sleep waiting to get through one of these monsters.

Probably don't keep much food down, either.

7 posted on 05/11/2012 9:55:05 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Pompah

My fear was not the welds, but the possibly of the darn thing turning over. I remember on one ship rated at 38 degrees before turning over, we hit a storm that put us at 42 degrees ... constipation was not a worry.


8 posted on 05/11/2012 9:56:03 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: Pompah
That relates to my thoughts; hats off to the guys who build the ships that can take that kind of punishment...
19 posted on 05/11/2012 10:49:23 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Pompah

Try being aboard a fishing boat, in 30’ swells. can you say, experience six motions all at once ....rock, roll, pitch, yaw, surge, sway and heave! Terrifying. :)


21 posted on 05/11/2012 10:56:09 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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