A cat, like a 42' Freeman, would just eat that stuff up. Cruising with quads, at 40 knots, it'd just skip over the crests of each wave. Oh wait, this isn't TheHullTruth. Never mind.
Too bad the video quit when it did. I bet that last wave scared the crap out of the guy taking the video.
At about 9 seconds you can see that wave crest coming in the distance, standing out and above all others. At least in a smaller boat you’d be able to make a turn into it...would still get ugly though!
Always amazed they don’t snap in two.
Always amazed they don’t snap in two.
That may all be true, but the end result is that the Edmund Fitzgerald split in half.and more..... so I wouldn't necessarily compare ocean battered VLCCs and an ore carrier....the incident of the Fitz in particular.
That may all be true, but the end result is that the Edmund Fitzgerald split in half.
Hmmmm, think of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It did snap in two, and that was on Lake Superior not out in the ocean.
The late John Clarke, and Brian Dawe, at work.Oh...it's happened more than you think:
Ships split, but the million dollar question is why.
Physics.