On 29 Nov, 13:17, wrote:
On 29 Nov, 12:11, Graham Easterling
wrote:



Still a big swell forecast for this week end.http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW-Surf-Charts/1/.

Those swell animations are fascinating. They make me realise just what
the folk on the Weather Ships India and Juliet (amongst others) had to
put up with. I was turned down in the early 1970s because I had no
radio-sonde training, but looking back - perhaps I was very fortunate.

I used to work for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Co., who also run
Skybus flights from Exeter/Newquay/Lands End to Scilly. I always took
the flying option when going to the Islands.

With a big swell, going out on a RIB is pure fun, going out in
something like the Scillonian III, which is flat bottomed dure to the
shallow entrance to the harbours at both Scilly & Penzance, is pure
hell. On the other hand I've been on the Greenpeace Ship 'Solo' (which
is converted tug) in St Ives Bay in a gale, and it was fine.

Graham
Penzance