dunno were else to put this post im i have
a friend he is a sailor merchant seaman has been so since 1969.he was
sailing on the IRON YAMPI a mineral cargo ship .he experienced the
biggest seas so far on that ship .400 ft swells off the east coast of
Australia. the YAMPI was the last of an era ,hand steering he was
steering. It was a perfect day just huge swells.the ship almost broached
going down the back of a wave.the YAMPI was loaded with pencil pitch,and
he told me.YA WOULDENT BELEIVE HOW fuken heavy it was.true story no
shiitt.

30 metre swells, where was he? Wilson's Promitory?

When I read that Fred, I was thinking Bass Straight...but sheesh, pass,
those cargo vessels are huge, and dont play nice, and absolute pigs to
manoeuver!!!

I have friends who are merchant seamen, and they do the Gladstone-Weipa
run, up through the Torres Straights, for Bauxite, and those vessels are
monsters!!! Seven stories high, from the bridge to the fore deck...and
as 'beamy' as.

Sounds like a scene from the movie, 'The Perfect Storm"....pass.

Sorry, not 30 metre, more like a 100!!!! Whoa!!!

Are you sure, it wasn't like some of the fishing stories, where the fish
gets bigger, with the re-telling???

Those are big swells.

All of you need to shut the heck up -------------> zip it.

true story jess it was the same time back in the early seventies when
huge seas wrecked manly warf in Sydney harbour.by todays standards the
YAMPI was a boat.they hid for three days at anchor inside the southern
end of the great barrier reef untill they considered it safe to
sail.arrrh the seventies i surfed myself crazy back then heaps of big
surf yaaahoooo.

KariZ...I remember Manly Wharf, the old fun pier, got trashed.. and the
swells off North Steyne...and yes, I do remember bigger seas and the
Harbour used to be a challenge to cross at times with the old ferries..