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[Pilgrim]

Check this video of a Pacific Sun ocean liner in heavy seas.  About 1:00 a lady does a face plant into a pillar...the end 1/3 of it is scary - good place to stay out of.

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[Highlander]

The MV Suilven (named after a mountain in Scotland) is a tough old boot - one of the first times I sailed on her was to go to my (paternal) grandmother's funeral - she died on 1st Jan 1974 and we had barely 2 days to get up to the Island - when we got to Ullapool it was anounced that she couldn't sail as there was a force 10 out in the Minch - my mum knew some of the crew and located a (crew) berth for us to stay in - at around 0430 the Captain decided that as it had abated to a force 9 he would set sail - the crossing normally took about 2 3/4 hours... this one took 5 1/2 hours and she listed to port a minimum of 10 degrees for almost the entire trip - you could see the entire bow disapear beneath waves and the props emerging for a significant proportion of the trip - rough was an understatement... none of that nonsense of tables flying about - all welded to the deck, not even bolts, and the bar was open... thetoilets could earn you danger money though... closest I've ever been to being sick whilst at Sea...



This is the Suilven leaving a port in New Zealand in similar circumstances... She now sails out of Fiji...

[Pilgrim]

GEEEEEEEEZ!!!  I wouldn't want to be on that boat.  I've ridden lots of ferries in and out of the harbor in Seattle, but that looks way too rough for a vessel like that!

And for that matter - it takes a LOT less than that to get me seasick!!!!!

I'm good in cars, but not on water.

[Dave W]

The heavy equipment sliding around is the scariest part.

[sniper]

when you ride a 30 degree list one tends to get close to the maker real quick while the ship rights itself....which under the circumstances seems to take forever....and a day.

good thing about the sea though is that for the most part you are never more than 5 miles from land.

straight down!!! 

[Pilgrim]

The heavy equipment sliding around is the scariest part.

No kidding!  Excellent place to stay well away from.  Looks like they didn't plan on rough weather or I have to think they'd have tied down a lot of that stuff.

[Highlander]

The present Hebridean ferry (Eilean Leòdhais) stays put whenever it gets beyond a puff of wind... Not a deep sea vessel...
Reputedly my grandfather used to say the waters in the Minch (between the Scottish mainland and the Outer Hebrides) were the worst waters he ever sailed in and he spent his entire working life on the high seas having sailed round both Capes many, many times...