Taking An 18 Hour Ferry In A Storm (Holland to UK) 

I've done some wild ferry crossings over the years and never been sea sick. On some crossings I'd guess around 80% around me were suffering. I wonder what the physiology is and why I seem so 'lucky' It looks awful.

@@rmcgeddon9611if you ever find out, please share with us your secrets 😅

@@ruthaisling 🤣

I once was desperately ill on a Plymouth to Roscoff ferry. Me and one of my friends were curled up on the bar floor crying for most of the journey. What made it all the more interesting was the bar was showing German porn dubbed into Italian with French subtitles on the telly.

In 1960, when I was 6, the ferries in Massachusetts went on strike. We took a fishing boat in a gale instead. My father, me, 2 sibs, and my pregnant mother. We stayed below where the rocking was less, but my mother to this day recalls that crossing as one of the worst hours of her now 97 years! You have all my sympathy. I'm glad you made it home safely. :)

Retired Merchant Mariner,first praise to all Coasties ,4 ever. Thanks. I worked Great lakes. Some time on the salt with Military Sea Lift duty, on a spook ship. but mostly fresh. Been there with sickness just totally knocking me down. When it hit me,it went from uncomfortable to please let me die real fast. Puking plus a headache from Satan.

Love that!

Do you ever get used to it?

In June, 1960 my family and I crossed the Atlantic on the SS Rijndam of the Holland America Line to emigrate to Canada. I was nine years old and still clearly remember my own sea sickness which lasted for about two days but the image of hundreds of people lined up top side in deck chairs with vomit bags that were constantly being tossed overboard. My Mother was very ill for a goodly part of the trip. Come to think of it, the ship was late in arriving in Montreal by a day or two because we also had a considerable storm at sea. Now that I am reminiscing I recall being tossed about in my bunk. No wonder there were so many 'green' people on board.

@@valeriebaker9512 My dad was in the navy in WW2, and he said they did get used to it, but I don't know how long it takes to acclimatize to it.

That sounds horrendous 🤢

We did too but in summer so smooth for us. Sailing to Denmark in march 99 was so rough I didn't dare sleep. North sea is roughest in my humble opinion.

I'd be very interested to learn the year and name of the ship, if you don't mind sharing such information. Confined to cabins is an order that I've never heard given before and that's with me working a passenger ship in one of the worst waters of the planet.

@@derektaylor2941 Maybe they were confined by choice, or necessity, but not by order. When I am sick, which is fairly frequently with a condition I have, I confine myself to bed. Or I would describe it that way to others.

@@cattymajiv that's a fair point, which is why I was interested to know as I've never heard it happening before. I've had occasions where we've been told to sit down and not attempt to walk, but that was an exception when we were in the North Atlantic with engine failure and we were turned side on to the wind. That's fun. Then when they managed to get enough power from the engines to turn us we had the wind behind us and making about 2-3 knots... That's when you really know about bad weather.

Thanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos and sorry to hear about your seasickness episode too!

Exactly!

Thank you so much, that’s very nice of you to say. The seas near Okinawa can be so rough! Did you ever take the ferry out to Yonaguni, that ferry is known for being awful… it was ok the day I took it though!

Hero ?

i sat at the breakfast at my crossing to Newcastle in the rear of the ferry....i was all alone...! because most dont ate.... 3m waves are not that bad!.... but my dad been a seaman on a Schnellboot....maybe i picked up some of his not getting sea sick!

Hero. Lmao

So foolish.

Hero, no stupid yes.

Glad to hear you've managed to avoid seasickness! Maybe I'll opt for a window next time!

Ah yes the Irish Sea. I once had a crossing from hell, Holyhead to Dublin. 4 hours of gale force torture. I had a cabin with a window but I couldn't endure it even laid down. So I spent the whole time on the deck being sprayed, one minute seeing the sea, the next minute the sky. I was sure we were going to capsize but obviously I lived. A nightmare.

I am Danish, and my father had a small sailing boat when he was young and later when he was older too. He always said, "Get up and outside, look at the horizon". He was never seasick, but I have been seasick many times when I was a child (we used the ferries a lot). When I was almost 30, he finally finished his selfbuilt sailing boat, and we started to go sailing together. I was hardly ever seasick because if you are out in the fresh air and occupied with everything else but how you feel in your stomach, you will not feel it. Once, on a two day race, I had to go in the cabin to get some sleep, and when I woke up, I was feeling awfully seasick. I got up, dressed for the bad weather, and got outside telling how I felt. Immediately, he gave me the rudder, and within two minutes, I was no longer seasick 😅 No motorists (I have heard of) have ever been sick while driving, but reading in the passenger's seat can make many people feel bad.😊

See the Horizon and ocean helps a lot.. staying so low and midships as possible on the ship helps too.. and ofc think of what eat and drink 😁

I got seasick in the bay of biscay in 73 on the way to NZ to see my brothers. There was a long queue for the docs for a sea sickness jab (ten shillings) probably about eight pounds now but within half an hour i was fine. Soon forgot the price.

Yep, keeping one's eyes on the horizon is a good thing, and fresh air.

Agreed. I rode on a cruise ship through the tail end of a hurricane and it was much better outside with the fresh air.

It wasn't a great day. 😂

Never write "whiskey" to someone from Scotland - It's "whisky" - and will always be! 😀 - And yes, there's a huge difference ;-)

Yikes

@MikkelLindgren Autocorrect obviously

I thought one is supposed to take sea sick tablets hours before , one sails. Take the train

Thanks Charles, the food did look good. If I go again on this route, I'll need to try it! I have heard the Shetland ferry can be very rough!

Still remember the food from my trip on there when I was a kid (years ago) I’m 53. It was amazing on DFDS.

Thanks Irene, yes it must have been so tough to captain a ferry in that weather!

​@@ruthaislingI'm curious do u suffer with anxiety or a tendency towards being anxious?

HA! HA! Too funny 😂

So do oranges

lmao.

Thank you 🙏

Great filming 😊

In the 80s, I made it round the capehorn on gondola, never again😢

Glad you enjoyed it!

Storm force 10 😳 Thanks for the advice on the sea sickness tablet!

Green apples and ginger beer can help too, although TBH if even the crew were feeling sick I doubt much would help land-lubbers.

Yes, was going to say the same. For them to be effective you should have been taking the pills before you arrived at the terminal at Ijmuiden

Thank you 🙏

I couldn’t do it 🤢

Thank you 🙏

almost 6million population in scotland and not one ferry service from this nation to the continent of europe ,i did travel from lerwick to bergen overnight but its discontinued also the ferry service from grangemouth to zeebruge was discontinued as the cars and cargo trucks/passengers have to travel go to newcastile now ,which is fine if you live in lowlands !of course the majority of cargo travels to south england so our major ports have been destroyed ,i know this for a fact as im ret. merchant navy.

Thank you so much!

@ruthaisling you are welcome hope you are okay x

Thank you, feeling much better now 🙏

You need to come on another visit! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thank you for watching 🙏

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@@ruthaislingYou are brave & after your dog bite! At minute 8 my husband comes in bleeding to inform me he was attacked by the neighbors dog! What are the chances! I’ve been trying to figure out laws & next steps & talking him into getting medical care! I hope you got info from the dogs owner. That’s a really bad bite at least a level 2 in the states! Was it a German Shepherd by any chance? I’m thinking his bruise is going to be bad around where he’s bleeding & got him in the rear. You were so lucky it didn’t break the skin. I hope the owners are taking responsibility & was reported. I just found out if he doesn’t report it we’re not doing what’s right for other people or the dog since he is dangerous & we’ve known of the owner being bitten. I hope you’re feeling better now! I’ll have to go watch the video!

@@gunnybunny4081 It looks to me like the skin was broken. It had been 5 days she said at the start of the video, so it was 6 days by the time she was on the ferry. But yeah, dogs that bite do need to be reported. Next time it could get a child, or somebody's eye, or have rabies. I hope your husband is ok now.

@@cattymajiv Thanks for your sentiment! He got sorer each day. (He was knocked down on gravel after the first bite & had sandals on so he has a bunch of injuries & aches & pains.) I used your exact words to get him to finally go. He said he couldn’t stop thinking about it being me or our dog we could be killed. I have a condition with my feet & trouble just walking. I can’t run & half my husbands size so he’d of knocked me down too. I’ve never seen him so traumatized & he’s rolled our industrial John deer front loader into a creek with a 4-5ft drop. Once he was on the ground the dog went for his face & the owner finally grabbed his leash. He was too afraid to grab him before that but was behind him the entire time! What’s really blown us away is he came down later to tell him not to approach him or his property when he’s outside with his dog. (He was putting mail in our mailbox in our driveway!) He asked if he was bleeding & to see his bites, then told him he’s gotten far worse & it wasn’t that bad! Also had his own arm in a bandage at that point. Never apologized or took responsibility, or ask if he was ok but placed blame, tried to intimidate & downplayed what happened! I liked this neighbor but I guess when your homeowners policy & dog is involved (our state requires obedience lessons after any attack which will benefit everyone especially the dog.) you only care about how it affects you. He even has a kid. I went back & watched her dog bite video & showing it the first time it wasn’t bleeding or look like the skin was broken but it was evident she’d been bitten hard. I’ve been bitten by a Chihuahua & it hurt & bruised badly. Her bruise was bad within hours & worse day by day. Within an hour my husband had a bruise the size of a golfball as red as his blood, 4 hours later baseball sized. It’s turning darker red now & even grew a bit more overnight. This will more than likely begin a war & there’s only 4 houses in our subdivision, 2 when we moved here. They built the house after we’d been here 5 years & live next to him. Not looking forward to the repercussions. This is our dream property & been here over 20 years. I can’t believe he hasn’t done obedience training since he’s afraid of his own dog & I’m an animal lover & feel terrible for the dog. 😢 How people can be so irresponsible with their pets are the ones that don’t need them! Take care!

Thank you 🙏

That’s good to know they provide medicine!

I guess we shall see if it is or not.

i think we already saw !@@mircat28

Ya just like moonshine and guns... but it's still a good time 😁🎉

Personal opinion😂😂

Maybe not for you. Worked great for me 😊

いくつか計画通りにはいかなかったけれど、フランス旅行は楽しかった！フィッシュ＆チップスはいいアイデアだと思う！

Thank you for your kind comments!!

Thanks! 🙏 That sounds like quite the adventure! Thanks for sharing your story!

A non-rolling bed is the best bed!

Glad you enjoy the reality, thank you

I’m with you. I could watch these trips all evening instead of tv!😅

Couldn’t agree more. Shit happens. Life is not an Insta-sham

Thanks for sharing your interesting journey. Enjoyed the video very much including the virtual seasick :) Viewer from California.

Thank you Melanie!

Yeah, she does appear quite naive at times - which is odd for a "traveller".

Thank you 🙏

I hope so too!

Thanks Mary!

Oh the Hovercraft. It was like sea roulette; it was either extremely smooth or roller coaster bumpy - and that's in August, but it lasted 40 mins maximum. As a child in the 70's we used to cross with Hoverlloyd from Ramsgate to Calais. Then in the 80's we switched to Hoverspeed from Dover to Boulogne and then loaded the car onto the train all the way to Milano ( I'm from an Italian family who used to make their way from London to Northern Tuscany every summer ). Hoverspeed had the largest passenger Hovercraft in the world, The Princess Anne, and it was smoother even in a gale because of it's length. I loved looking out of the airline-style windows and watching as we zoomed passed the Sealink and Townesend Thoresen ferries. Thank you for prompting me to remember such wonderful childhood memories.

Are there still hovercrafts available?

No more hovercrafts as the tunnel killed their business.

Thank you! 😃

Thanks Alison!

Thank you for watching!

Your wife probably developed her sea legs by the return journey. It takes about 3 hours of rough sea to adjust.

Amazing to hear you visited St. Kilda! Hope you enjoy your next trip back to Scotland!

Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

It was a great moment getting off that ferry 😅

Brought it back to me when I was on a small boat in a choppy sea. It was a sickness like no other and it put me off for life. I couldn't even walk. The floor felt like it was going up and down. One of my worst experiences and I was ill for 24 hours.

Glad you enjoyed it!!

Thanks so much June, glad you enjoyed it!!

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@@ruthaisling 🫶

Thank you. Next trip will definitely be better! 🤞

Thanks, I’ll make it back to Europe again sometime hopefully with less dramas 😅

@@ruthaisling❤

It is quite funny watching it back, at the time it was horrific 😅

@@ruthaisling my 5 years at sea... I can sympathise with you.

It's a bad idea period.....

Thanks Paul, glad you enjoyed it

@@ruthaisling you're welcome and I did

Thank you so much!

最後は大きな挑戦だった。

Made it some safely thank you! ❤️

Thanks Martyn, I’m glad to be back

In hindsight, not a good mix 😅

@@peterskegness3204..Whiskey and motion sickness are terrible partners as we’ve just seen .

Interesting tip.Thanks.

Good to know, thank you for sharing!

Feel for you…I remember a North Sea ferry ride when I woke in the night to see my coat hanging on the back of the door and it was HORIZONTAL, the rolling was so bad….went straight back to sleep!! Next morning the ship smelt really bad 🤨😖

Thank you! 😃

Seasickness is the worst!

Very friendly!

Thanks for watching Phil! Fingers crossed next trips will be better 🤞

Thanks for watching!

That sounds like a horrendous experience!

Thank you so much!

Good idea!

Thank you 🙏

I heard this ferry route is great in nice weather, I think I just got unlucky!

Enjoy your trip to Aberdeen. Hope you can get some more travel ideas from the channel!

I think it'll never been forgotten haha!

I’ll definitely remember the water next time! 😅

Thanks for watching the videos! Hope you have a great trip!

I'm glad you found the video interesting and informative. Thank you for watching 😊

I hope you enjoy the other videos!

Bottles smashing to the ground wow, that sounds such an awful crossing! 😂

Thank you 😊

Yes poor Laphroaig 🥲

Thank you!!

Thank you 🙏

Thanks Peter!

Thank you! I did arrive safe, that’s nice you don’t suffer from seasickness!

Haha poor Ernie, I'll make sure to call him Ernie next time!

Thank you so much!!