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As a fellow sailor who's only dealt with ferries, what's the wake like coming off those cruise ships? I can't imagine it's just the fumes causing sea sickness w
by cguess 3y ago
As a fellow sailor who's only dealt with ferries, what's the wake like coming off those cruise ships? I can't imagine it's just the fumes causing sea sickness when one of those monstrosities steam past your 26' or whatever.
- pengaru 3y agoActually I've only been anywhere near them when they're docked, presumably taking on passengers. They're not supposed to run on the bunker oil near shore, but the stink from them just idling there is always exceptionally bad. Incidentally, we also learned one time that if you get too close (on the order of hundreds of yards) to a docked cruise ship the USCG will appear with a large deck-mounted machine gun trained on your bow while ordering you to change course. So not only are the cruise ships making the air disgusting for everyone nearby, our tax dollars are spent guarding them from terrorist attacks while doing so too. I'm sure container ships are disgusting too.. but they don't generally sit docked idling for ages where people are doing recreation.