I might be nuts! but is it exciting to be in rough waters?

[plumeria]

we are booked Jan 2, 06 Summit from LA to Hawaii and instead of being scared or worried about rough weather, it kind of excites me ,maybe I am crazy but I am so hyped to be at sea if it is rough I am ready for it, anyone out there enjoy rough weather is it exciting??

 

Plumeria

[Host Kewlguy]

As crazy as it may sound it is kind of exciting. Neither of us are affected by rough seas, therefore we can enjoy it while others are hiding in their cabins. We have been in some very nasty storms. Out of 8 cruises we have had smooth sailing on only 2.

[dkjretired]

we are booked Jan 2, 06 Summit from LA to Hawaii and instead of being scared or worried about rough weather, it kind of excites me ,maybe I am crazy but I am so hyped to be at sea if it is rough I am ready for it, anyone out there enjoy rough weather is it exciting??

 

Plumeria[/quote

 

Nothing to do with cruising but take a ride to New Jersey, highest and fastest roller coaster in the world just opened last week at 6 Flags.

[Host Kewlguy]

I look forward to trying that new roller coaster.

[ccletzgo]

Your not alone. Our last cruise, I was bummed because it was too calm. It just never felt like a ship on the ocean. Not enough rocking and rolling. Hurricane season has some good prices. Book Aug and sept cruises for some great fun!

[Ericknow32]

we are booked Jan 2, 06 Summit from LA to Hawaii and instead of being scared or worried about rough weather, it kind of excites me ,maybe I am crazy but I am so hyped to be at sea if it is rough I am ready for it, anyone out there enjoy rough weather is it exciting??

 

Plumeria

I would not be terribly upset if the seas on our way to Hawaii were a little rough. Although I do know people on our sailing that would not be as comfortable with it.

 

I do kinda enjoy rough weather. On my Voyager of the Seas cruise we had 10-15 foot swells for 2 and a half days. I thought it was fun watching the people walking side to side while in the promenade. The only downside is that the lower open decks were closed of.

[Jancruiser]

We've been on cruise ships in some wild storms. During the wildest, the waves were splashing water onto the top deck and water was pouring in under the doors from the various decks (into public areas, cabins were safe.) Walking down the hallways was a trip--the ship was going up and down so that you had to exert effort to walk forward, and then the floor would sink in front of you. While most passengers took refuge in their cabins, we were winning in the casino. We just wrapped our legs around the legs of those stools and kept putting in the quarters--we won a couple of hundred dollars that night. I guess we didn't have enough sense to be scared; it was just exciting.

 

Less exciting and just plain irritating was a 10-day cruise where the ship rocked sharply from side to side the whole trip. Whop, whop, back and forth. You couldn't sleep on your side; the motion knocked you onto your back. It didn't cause seasickness, it was just irritating. And it was a large, new ship. The sea wasn't overly rough. We never figured that one out.

 

The biggest downside to rough seas is that many of the shore excursions, the best ones, are cancelled. The sailing getaways are usually cancelled and we've already been to beaches that were completely washed out, no beach at all. But you can't change nature, so you just make the best of it. Jan

[canderson]

we are booked Jan 2, 06 Summit from LA to Hawaii and instead of being scared or worried about rough weather, it kind of excites me ,maybe I am crazy but I am so hyped to be at sea if it is rough I am ready for it, anyone out there enjoy rough weather is it exciting??

 

Plumeria

It's all a matter of how well you (or your stomach) can handle it. On our very first cruise, seas were quite rough, and it turned into a game to see which of us could make it down the passageways to the cabin without touch any of the walls!

 

Rough seas recommendation for dining:

 

Make a point of getting a seat such that you are rocking forward and backward (as in a rocking chair), not side to side. You'll be surprised at the difference if you're sensitive to the motion.

[Ericknow32]

It's all a matter of how well you (or your stomach) can handle it. On our very first cruise, seas were quite rough, and it turned into a game to see which of us could make it down the passageways to the cabin without touch any of the walls!

I do the same thing

 

Rough seas recommendation for dining:

 

Make a point of getting a seat such that you are rocking forward and backward (as in a rocking chair), not side to side. You'll be surprised at the difference if you're sensitive to the motion.

Thanks for the info. I never heard or thought about this.

[Host Anne]

I love the motion .... and much prefer motion to calm seas. I like knowing I'm on a ship. I don't want seas rough enough to make people ill, but I definitely like knowing I'm on a ship, not in a hotel. ;)

[Maine Coon]

I might be nuts! but is it exciting to be in rough waters?

 

Yes and Yes :D

[asylver1]

I actually really like it! We were on Legend of the Seas in the North Sea about 3 years ago on deck 7 and we could really feel it, one night in particular. I had already gone to bed and was enjoying the rolling and I decided to turn on the TV and get the bridge info. I was thrilled to see the graphic that showed that waves were coming 25 ft up the sides! To this day I regret not going out to look, I was in an inside cabin. I know the big doors were probably closed but I should have found a window or gone to the high lounge or something. I just remember being very cozy and after all it was about 3 in the am. I sleep like a baby on a rocking ship. My own giant cradle!

[Mike2131]

I don't want mirror like seas all the time either, but sometimes rough seas can cause unforeseen problems. On our Panama Canal cruise in December, we had 2 days of rough seas sailing from the Canal to Grand Cayman. The net result was that all scuba and snorkel tours were cancelled and we missed Stingray City.

 

Oh well, just another reason to go back!

[excitedofharpenden]

I'm with Canderson. Providing my stomach can handle it, I would love to be at sea when it is a bit rough. Trouble is, I have had a couple of bad experiences on a cross-Channel ferry to France and it puts me off a bit. If I can take some Bonine or the like and feel ok, then bring it on! Well to a certain extent anyway.

 

So far we have avoided the really heavy stuff. I'm sure that will change in time.

 

Phil

[Texed]

Phil,

 

That Carnival ship looked a "little" rough. :)

[AFT_LOVER]

Give me a Bonine & I yell "Bring it on". We had a ball on Connie last Sept with the swells we sailed in, all the artwork came to life rocking & rolling, the curtains in the showroom were banging away up there. Waves crashing on 9th deck making breakfast quite salty & our navy blue cushions were white. Walking hallways like a drunk was fun & we'd do Promonade with the waves crashing on it & the up & down movement made for fun walks. Coffee in cups spilling into saucer when we'd hit a big one. Ice cream falling out of cones, so the server was told in cups only.....

 

Granted we are nuts, but we want fun on a cruise. Felt sorry for many losing it on the railings, but why they are on a cruise & are seasick with no medication to cure it???? I told the guy's wife to get him ginger ale & I am told they will when they get ashore. WHAT???

[gkm]

Having just gotten off of the Brilliance transatlantic, the memory of our "storm" is still fresh in my mind. We had wind gusts of 103 mph (sustained at 78 mph) and 25-30 foot seas for two days. We were in an aft cabin, and I think that's what kept us from getting seasick. Because of the position of the beds, we rocked head to toe instead of side to side. It's a long winding road down the halls to the center of the ship though!:D

 

Garry

[geoherb]

The roughest seas we've experienced were on our first cruise as a couple. It was on NCL's Seaward (now the Sea). A cold front moving down the East Coast caused 30-foot swells as we were sailing back from Cozumel to Miami. They closed all the outside decks.

 

On a Princess cruise, we hit some rough water the first night leaving Seattle for Alaska. The worst part was a noise that kept us awake. We finally discovered that someone had left a glass tumbler in one of the drawers. It was rolling back and forth in the drawer.

 

Another memorable experience with rough seas was on a Royal Caribbean cruise. We sailed from San Juan early in the evening and hit pretty big swells. We had second seating. We had not seen the Sea Bands that a couple of women were wearing and asked about them. The husband of one was making fun of them. He did not make it through dinner. He wore Sea Bands the rest of the cruise.

[Druke I]

Generally speaking, rough water does not bother me, and I do enjoy watching the "motion of the ocean" when the going gets rough.

 

Only once did I get ill - on the little Golden Odyssey, a 10,000 tonner, in the China Sea, trying to outrun a typhoon. We had green water over the bridge, screws out of the water, and the inclinometer was pegged several times. It was very rough - and a lot of passengers and crew suffered "mal de mer". In those same waters, Halsey's fleet lost three destroyers to capsizing in the closing days of WW2.

 

Will be going 'round the Horn in Mar 06 on the Regal Princess - and that area has a reputation for being very rough on occasion.

[hermang]

We have two experiences - our first cruise on the Horizon - if you were sober you couldn't walk a straight line - drunk you were fine - yet it was not rough - just the small ship couldn't handle the swells - we were with a group of seasoned cruisers - most said if it was their first cruse it would have been our last.

 

One night on the Brilliance we were doing 26kts with a 43 kt wind from the north west - my wife who usually is pretty good on large ships with just sea bands - was green and went to bed.

 

Had a friend on the Mariner last year - 40 ft swells - his first cruise with the family - ALL were sick - Captain said in the 50 voyages he had been on this was a first - even the crew was seasick

 

Nothing compared with the Norwegian dawn earlier this year - 70' wave

I am sure you saw that in the papers - Can we say Poseidon Adventure

[canderson]

I'm with Canderson. Providing my stomach can handle it, I would love to be at sea when it is a bit rough. Trouble is, I have had a couple of bad experiences on a cross-Channel ferry to France and it puts me off a bit...

Have also been on the old P&O when they had to shut down the commissary (Dover/Calais). Those ships really weren't designed to compensate for high seas in any way I could see! Mostly just rolled up and down and around like fishing bobbers. That was the first time I'd seen people wearing those little bracelets with the beads on them that were supposed to provide sort of accupressure to the inside of the wrist.

 

Best P&O ride I ever had, though, was the jet foil from Dover to Ostend (how many ways are there to spell that city's name?).

[ebk2795]

I don't mind rough seas either. Was on the Legend for a Hawaii cruise last May. We sailed back to the west coast. Crossing the Pacific, the seas were a little rough (we have a picture of the sea-sickness bags stocked at all the stairwells). At night, our beds were rocking head to toe. I never slept better!

[dobelover]

Dec '04 it was so rough our last night (going into Port Canaveral) we crawled to the bathroom rather than risk being thrown into the furniture.

[superjerryw]

I'm with Canderson. Providing my stomach can handle it, I would love to be at sea when it is a bit rough. Trouble is, I have had a couple of bad experiences on a cross-Channel ferry to France and it puts me off a bit. If I can take some Bonine or the like and feel ok, then bring it on! Well to a certain extent anyway. So far we have avoided the really heavy stuff. I'm sure that will change in time. Phil

I've seen that picture before and I always wonder if it is real. That would have to be a really big wave to cover the fron of that ship. In addition, where was the person that took the picture. They would obviously have to have been in the air and you wonder who would be out flying in that kind of weather.

[excitedofharpenden]

As far as I am aware Jerry, it is a real photo and was taken from a coastal rescue helicopter during Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

 

Phil