Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/02
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Henning--
I see your point. I've only been on one cruise, and unfortunately for the
landlubbers, it was during Hurricane Andrew! (No wonder it was so cheap!)
The cruise ship was fabulous ... one of the Royal Caribbean ships,
brand-new, and my son was only 4 months old ... we had the oldest and
youngest passengers aboard. My then-mother-in-law was, at that time, 87
years old. We had to stay at sea longer than the cruise was supposed to
last, and were out of the 'cane, redirected to cruise the waters south of
Cuba. When we arrived back on land, the devastation was unreal.
I got a bit of a literary taste for storms reading David Masiel's book 2182
KhZ recently, a novel about tugs and barge pushing ships in the Alaskan
Arctic. Makes you realize that even a heavy ship can be tossed around like a
ping-pong ball on the high seas.
Kit
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Wulff
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:09 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Guilt?
At 2:25 PM -0700 3/2/03, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
>Gosh. I wish they had transatlantic crossings for passengers (not just
>merchant marines) by ship these days. Used to be, so I'm told, you could
>take a tanker or a cargo ship across the waters ... is this still true? Has
>anyone ever done this, or done it recently?
>
>Kit
I've been across the Atlantic a number of times by ship, but the last
time was 1967. A couple of times by freighter. These were small ones,
about 4 to 7K tons, with accommodation for up to 12 passengers. This
sort of accommodation isn't available anymore, due to legal/insurance
issues, but I believe you can still get across the oceans on some
freighters if there is space in crew quarters that isn't used.
Entertainment takes on a different meaning than on passenger liners
with thousands of people.
Storms on land seem pretty mild compared to the same storm at sea.
Winter on the North Atlantic on a 5000 ton freighter can be quite
memorable. Taking pictures, though is a serious challenge, as hanging
on becomes your life's focus.
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