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Trip reports / Re: DFDs Dana Sirena

« on: July 31, 2008, 03:05:40 AM »

If it isn't too late and you have already had the experience .... we took the Dana Sirena a year ago at the end of July. We woke up in the middle of the night with our heads being driven into the side plates and a Force 8 outside with wave height to about 6 meters. Staff had never run into that kind of weather at that time of year. We pitched and rolled in figure eights with a bit of hull shivering in a following quartering wind half the night and a good part of the next day. The magnitude of the p & r seemed excessive for a ship of 199 meters, but it is a cargo ferry with passenger accommodations quite a bit forward. There weren't many takers for breakfast.