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AKMA
First Class Passenger
Member # 1843

posted 12-02-2002 03:19 PM

Would be interested in hearing how the "RIDE" was on a modern cruise ship going
around Cape Horn on a South America cruise.

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 12-02-2002 04:09 PM

Not bad at all for the simple reason they don't go down to the Cape if it's rough.
Almost all of them go into Ushuaia so to go to the Cape is a diversion to specifically see it.
....peter

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JP
First Class Passenger
Member # 1373

posted 12-03-2002 11:41 AM

We were at Cape Horn on the Zenith a couple of weeks ago. It was kind of strange; we had expected to see the ship battling huge waves, but it was sunny and the sea was almost calm. It was cool and windy, but it was cool and windy just about the whole cruise. The weather at Cape Horn was actually some of the best on the cruise.

We were told that there were only a dozen or so days in the year when it is that nice there.

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bronbeth
First Class Passenger
Member # 3198

posted 12-04-2002 12:15 AM

We travelled around the Horn in February on board the Caronia. The seas were fairly calm. We were told, as Gohaze has already said, that when the weather is bad they aviod the cape by sailing through the channels near to Ushuaia.

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SydneyBoy
First Class Passenger
Member # 2543

posted 12-04-2002 08:57 AM

I have heard many stories from my grandmother about the horror trips she and my pop had around the Horn when they migrated to Australia and on subsequent trips back home to England, They experienced the famous rough seas on the Orcadies?? not sure of spelling, and also the Oronsay?? and Orsova?? They are probably all misspelt! Sorry

I recall on one trip they had such bad seas that the piano broke loose, and on her final trip my grandmother actually broke her ribs after being throne around the cabin!

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 12-04-2002 09:25 AM

Orient Line ships didn't used to go around the Horn.
...peter

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SydneyBoy
First Class Passenger
Member # 2543

posted 12-04-2002 09:29 AM

Your absolutely right peter, my mistake, was thinking of the Cape of Good Hope round the bottom of South Africa!

Just got the wrong continent hehe, think the weather is comparable though!

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Eric
First Class Passenger
Member # 2724

posted 01-04-2003 05:17 PM

Did the Horn @ 7am 28 dec, bridge reported air temp 8c (46f) with following wind force 7, sea did not seem that bad just a little rocking & rolling, a few white caps. But the sea down there has no obstructions so I suppose you could call it relatively calm compared to that wind in say the Bay of Biscay
Eric

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 01-04-2003 06:11 PM

Eric, I think I'd feel I had missed out if I ever got a chance to go 'down there' and didn't get any really rough seas. I have never had anything overly bad in Biscay either. I've had worse on a ferry to the Isle of Arran

Pam...

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AKMA
First Class Passenger
Member # 1843

posted 01-05-2003 11:33 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Eric:
Did the Horn @ 7am 28 dec, bridge reported air temp 8c (46f) with following wind force 7, sea did not seem that bad just a little rocking & rolling, a few white caps. But the sea down there has no obstructions so I suppose you could call it relatively calm compared to that wind in say the Bay of Biscay
Eric

What ship were you on?

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Eric
First Class Passenger
Member # 2724

posted 01-06-2003 04:11 PM

AKMA...we were on P&O's Arcadia, formerly the old star princess & soon to be Ocean Village. Have had chance to look at my video & force 7 down there does not look that bad at all!
Eric

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