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Post by Ian on May 8, 2007 15:59:00 GMT -8
Has anyone noticed the car deck windows extend to the floor on the upper car deck, it at least appears to do so. this could cause cars to get sea water on them and rust.
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Post by DENelson83 on May 8, 2007 19:30:37 GMT -8
Are you sure the sea water will even get that high in a storm on the Strait?
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Post by herrbrinkmann on May 10, 2007 20:44:59 GMT -8
The car deck is at 13.8m above the keel, the draught of the vessel is 5.75m, so the car deck is 8.05m above the water line. Maybe that´s a little high for water to jump up...
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Post by Ian on May 10, 2007 21:48:44 GMT -8
But salt gets in the air. But i guess that is rather high.
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Post by Dane on May 10, 2007 21:51:57 GMT -8
But salt gets in the air. But i guess that is rather high. As it always has.... 8m actually makes it fairly high among many of the vessels in the fleet.
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Post by Ferryman on May 10, 2007 22:09:58 GMT -8
It would have to sure get rough in our protected Strait of Georgia, for there to be sea spray coming into the upper car deck. Although, believe it or not, I've heard many stories of the sea spray making it as high up as the passenger lounge windows on a windy day. Then there was one of those windy January storms a few years ago, that the Queen of Alberni got caught up in, and a few passenger lounge windows got smashed in. I remember seeing pics of it on the news, and the Alberni was just a rolling in the seas. One of these days, I'll end up timing it right, and I'll be on one of these extremely rough sailings.
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Post by Hardy on May 10, 2007 23:24:22 GMT -8
Quick off topic note....
about 6 years ago, I ran a 5-ton moving truck back from Nanaimo. We'd taken a load of furniture to an old folks home, and collected back pads that we'd sent over on 4 other trailers. It started to snow as we were finishing up and we ran our arses off to get to the Duke Point sailing on time. Heavy snow ... I forget which year, but it was a March snow. Anyways ... made the sailing.
We had about 800 furniture pads (heavy about 7-8 lbs each, 72"x80" quilted blankets, for those of you that don't know the moving industry and what pads are!) tossed in the back of our truck. Usually these would all be folded and stacked neatly as we put them onboard, but as it was a miserable ugly day and we were rushing for the boat, they were just HUCKED in. I figured 2 hour sailing would be plenty of time.
My 37' long, 13.5' tall truck was shoehorned in (yup, it was an overload situation) right against the outter wall, with 5" between my front bumper, and NO space behind my tailgate to the bumper behind me. I had to climb on the other truck's bumper to get into the back of my truck. I was about 1.5' away from the outter wall, and while my partner went topside to sleep, I folded furniture pads in the back of the truck.
The 3.25 hour crossing (yes, weather sucked!!) was SO rough, that the top corner of my truck box (13.5' off the ground, 1.5' off the bulkhead) was BOUNCING OFF THE SIDE OF THE SHIP! No real damage to my truck, but I knocked a lot of paint of the ferry!
I also couldn't stack up my pads taller than just above my waist as they kept falling over. I ended up with about 40 tiny stacks taking up my whole floor space!
And my partner, he was greener than green topside. I could see the heavy snow out the porthole windows on the truck deck ... it was one heck of a ride. My stomach was flipping a bit being in a heaving truck on a heaving ship, but I managed to keep everything down that was supposed to be.
The point of this post, other than to relate my trip -- even in fairly rough seas, I saw very little spray coming into the ship from my vantage point ... although I was pretty wall aft near the last set of "windows".
I forget if it was QoNW or QoA that I was on ... I think it was the New West .......
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Post by Mac Write on May 16, 2007 23:27:17 GMT -8
That Alberni trip that left Duke Point at 0515 on December 17 2003(?) never did make it to TSA that day. Spray was easily washing in on Deck 4 as video showed. Also when it arrived at TSA, it couldn't dock, so they had to move trucks on the car deck to shift the weight and it was sent to HSB and arrived at 1330. a Very long trip.
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Post by Hardy on May 17, 2007 15:20:40 GMT -8
That Alberni trip that left Duke Point at 0515 on December 17 2003(?) never did make it to TSA that day. Spray was easily washing in on Deck 4 as video showed. Also when it arrived at TSA, it couldn't dock, so they had to move trucks on the car deck to shift the weight and it was sent to HSB and arrived at 1330. a Very long trip. Glad I wasn't on THAT sailing!! That would have really sucked. As it was, the afternoon sailing that I was on was quite bad enough that day, and we did manage to get into Tsa eventually!
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 17, 2007 17:03:44 GMT -8
I would of loved to have been on that wild Alberni sailing. That would be cool! Not for people who had to be somewhere though.
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Post by Hardy on May 17, 2007 20:39:58 GMT -8
Which one? I don't know all the details on the one Mac described, whether it was just windy (which causes enough problems at Tsawwassen), or whether it was really rough and choppy like the one that I was on.
I would think that the "Mac-case", if it was just wind, would have been relatively boring, trying to push into Tsawwassen multiple times with limited success. The ocean pouring out of the car decks must have been something.
FWIW, my ride was really quite rough, but not very very windy, IIRC. It was snowing, and the main car deck was wet with some spray and snow coming in, but I don't remember massive waves crashing "IN". As I mentioned though, it was plenty rough, as my 13.5' tall truck was swaying at least 1.5' into the side of the ferry!! They were more or less what I would call "slow rollers" as I didn't end up denting my truck, rather just knocking a lot of paint off the boat.
When I did get up to the passenger decks to hit the head, my partner and several passengers were having stomach control issues; I suppose the heavy seas had more of a pronounced effect on them (I quite well have my sea legs).
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 18, 2007 20:07:30 GMT -8
It was really really rough as the spray was coming over the upper vehicle deck of the Alberni as it was on the news. 8 hours later they finally offload in HSB as they couldent make it into TSA. I had never seen the strait that rough before just by the news clips I saw. It was crazy!
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