*Oasis lifeboats damaged by storm damage-60 ft seas*

[antsnanny]

Yeah a great ride until your head is down the toilet or over the side. Even the best get seasick.

 

I practically live on a 40 sailboat during the summer and I never get seasick. That was until I found myself sailing in 10-15 seas beating upwind. 5 hours of pure hell.

 

Lesson learned? Never ever think you are beyond getting seasick. Pack some meds.

 

 

Good advice, I never get seasick but I do believe what you say, so next cruise I'm packing Bonine.

[kuddles14]

If you go over to the Oasis board, they are saying she is handeling this very well and everyone on board is able to continue working. Not a lot of movement so they say. As far as Friday the 13th, maybe this will be a very lucky ship. My mother was born on Friday the 13th and she is the luckiest person I know. Maybe this will be the same for the Oasis. One can only hope.

[3redheads]

I'd really like to sail Oasis, but it's so darned expensive! I'm holding out hope that the prices will go down a bit once the novelty wears off.

 

I remember rough seas on the Grandeur. The kids would run up and down the stairs while the stairs were going up and down, out from under their feet. It was sort of like an amusement ride! There were barf bags at every level. It was a wild ride in the casino. I swear by Bonine!

[BroncosFan2010]

60' seas? Yah-hoo! I'd be on the bow heli-pad jumping as high as I could on the wave crests.

 

If there's any sailors in here, you know exactly what I'm talking about! ;)

 

 

Certainly sounds like fun!

[aruvqan]

I'm and ex sailor but missed all of that. As and old 'bubble head' we spent all of our time under water. More like flying than sailing.;)

True that, borealis state 4 seas are something though ... though hubby hit state 6 seas once or twice on [iIRC] the Spadefilh or the Miami [can't remember if it was prior to or just after we moved to NLON subbase]

[wraithe]

Hey Wraite...hubby noticed your siggy today. I always tell him all the old Navy conversations, I see here. He was on the USS Stimson too....but earlier than you, 78-84...I've concluded that he must be older than you. :p LOL He says you probably saw his signature here and there.

He put in 23 years....retired as a Senior Chief 10 years ago.

 

The Hog was a good boat. Ask him if he remembers standing in the torpedo room at a full bell or flank bell and feeling the javelin effect as the hull flexed? For everyone else, if you've ever watched a javelin fly through the air, the front on back of the javelin rotate as it flies, Stimson's forward end would do the same thing at high speeds.

 

Yeah, but even though our sonar guys were pretty good you boomer guys were awfully quiet unless/until someone dropped that toilet seat and, we also had our share of guys with brain fade when running quiet.:rolleyes: Also, you guys way out numbered us with the heavy stuff in case the flag ever dropped.

 

See you on the beach.........:)

 

Natural circ is the bomb, and boats don't make much noise at 3 knots to nowhere. Later shipmate.

 

True that, borealis state 4 seas are something though ... though hubby hit state 6 seas once or twice on [iIRC] the Spadefilh or the Miami [can't remember if it was prior to or just after we moved to NLON subbase]

 

I had several acquaintances on the Spadefish. My last patrol on Stimson was in Winter '91, Northern run and they wouldn't let us go deep. We were doing 30 and 35 degree rolls at >100 feet. That patrol sucked!

[Sheffie]

I remember rough seas on the Grandeur. It was a wild ride in the casino. I swear by Bonine!

Kim? in the casino? Nah . . .

[G'ma]

I'm not a seaman ;) but my first thought was that I would enjoy that trip. :D

 

Ditto, ditto, ditto........

[BecciBoo]

 

Lesson learned? Never ever think you are beyond getting seasick. Pack some meds.

 

One trip we followed a winter front down to Cozumel, all the pools were netted, I came close to being queezy watching the stage curtain on Splendour sway one direction as the ship rolled another direction. But didn't succumb. My standard cure is soda crackers, carry a box with you in heavy swells. They really work. Loved being on the promenade deck watching the bow waves...woohoo. Not normally sick unless I have to walk down corridors where there are deposits;) That trip we followed a winter front down to Cozumel. People were saying it was the worst cruise they ever had, we were perfectly happy. It was an adventure. Once we walked out the Jammer doors to the pool deck and the wind almost blew us off our feet. One lunch, they asked everyone to sit on the port side of the MDR...no kidding! She was listing that much! Loved it...course prefer calm seas, warm sun days. But we'd go again in a minute.

[alphakitty]

The Hog was a good boat. Ask him if he remembers standing in the torpedo room at a full bell or flank bell and feeling the javelin effect as the hull flexed? For everyone else, if you've ever watched a javelin fly through the air, the front on back of the javelin rotate as it flies, Stimson's forward end would do the same thing at high speeds.

 

 

Wraithe....he says he was never up there for that...he worked at the other end of the boat.....he's a nuke. ;) He's the reason you were bouncing around. LOL