Crossing from Cherbourg to Dublin tonight

pm. · 26-04-2019 9:12am #1

Hi all

Myself and the family are due to depart Cherbourg at 5pm French time this evening. How bad do you reckon the crossing will be? We are due to arrive in Dublin at 11am

Reckless Abandonment · 26-04-2019 9:32am

https://www.met.ie/forecasts/marine-inland-lakes/sea-crossings
Have a look there. Not to good I'm afraid
Locally very high. 9-14 meters. Can't see it sailing

Larbre34 · 26-04-2019 10:25am

Irish Ferries on twitter are confident of it sailing and indeed they will if at all possible due to tight scheduling.

I presume its the Yeats on service, in which case there is no better cruise ferry probably on the planet to cope with a bit of chop.

Tabnabs · 26-04-2019 10:28am

First proper bad weather for their new ship, they'll be dying to find out how she handles it. If you are bad travellers OP, turn in early and stay in your bunks. Stay off the booze and eat a light meal beforehand.

pm. · 26-04-2019 11:59am

Larbre34 wrote: »

Irish Ferries on twitter are confident of it sailing and indeed they will if at all possible due to tight scheduling.

I presume its the Yeats on service, in which case there is no better cruise ferry probably on the planet to cope with a bit of chop.

I'm about 200kms from Cherbourg atm, with waves expected to hit up to 14 meters it will certainly be a bumpy sailing. Not really looking forward to it tbh

marvin80 · 26-04-2019 1:30pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

First proper bad weather for their new ship, they'll be dying to find out how she handles it. If you are bad travellers OP, turn in early and stay in your bunks. Stay off the booze and eat a light meal beforehand.

Also: "Do not sit facing backwards from your direction of travel."

Spanish Eyes · 26-04-2019 1:38pm

Keep feet off the floor. Best advice I ever got for a bumpy sailing, and it was rough.

Manitoban · 26-04-2019 1:40pm

Don’t drink coffee either, god it’s awful coming back up during a choppy crossing.

Alkers · 26-04-2019 1:45pm

Stay as close to the centreline of the boat as you can, depending on the ship normally about 2/3rds back from the bow is most comfortable.
Eat crackers and sip water

cameramonkey · 26-04-2019 2:21pm

Load up with sea sick tablets, its the only thing that works for me.

Bogwoppit · 26-04-2019 2:24pm

Get some menthol vicks if you and rub it under your nose, there may be some vomit about and that will help with the smell.

A bucket might be handy too!

HeidiHeidi · 26-04-2019 2:30pm

Get yourself some ginger nut biscuits - when I'm feeling rough and unable to keep food or water down, a nibble on them is all I can usually face - spent a miserable 24 hours last weekend sailing in horrible conditions, crying that I'd forgotten the bloody things.

And yes, the middle of the boat vertically and lengthways is the best place to be, if you've any choice in the matter.

Best of luck! Please do report back!

pm. · 26-04-2019 2:44pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Get yourself some ginger nut biscuits - when I'm feeling rough and unable to keep food or water down, a nibble on them is all I can usually face - spent a miserable 24 hours last weekend sailing in horrible conditions, crying that I'd forgotten the bloody things.

And yes, the middle of the boat vertically and lengthways is the best place to be, if you've any choice in the matter.

Best of luck! Please do report back!

Just checked in ferry departure delayed until 10pm. It will take 20 hours to cross, so instead of arriving at 11am tomorrow morning we will now arrive at 8pm... At least they gave us meal vouchers

DOCARCH · 27-04-2019 9:36am

Would love to know how this trip is going?

Clonmel1000 · 27-04-2019 9:41am

They are just at lands end now expect to be in Dublin at 9pm tonight some serious pitching and rolling going on. I know a few people on it now.

pm. · 27-04-2019 10:29am

DOCARCH wrote: »

Would love to know how this trip is going?

I'm up since 6am not much sleep, the good news is the kids slept great. We are being hammered from the port side atm a lot of rolling. Some of the ceiling tiles have fallen out from the force of the waves. We should be in Dublin for 8pm

Tried to attach a screen shot but the wifi is too weak this is where we are now 28°28'10.8"N 81°26'53.4"W

_Brian · 27-04-2019 10:34am

Haven’t been on a really bad crossing in years, maybe 8 years.

Glad ye are getting through.
It’s the chance we all take with the ferry each year.

sparrowcar · 27-04-2019 10:39am

Never again. Helsinki to Talinn during a winter storm and it was 12-14m seas.
I would have missed that crossing for sure. Fair play for braving it. Any videos?

pm. · 27-04-2019 10:44am

sparrowcar wrote: »

Never again. Helsinki to Talinn during a winter storm and it was 12-14m seas.
I would have missed that crossing for sure. Fair play for braving it. Any videos?

Sure do will post later when home, the wifi is too weak

sparrowcar · 27-04-2019 10:47am

pm. wrote: »

Sure do will post later when home, the wifi is too weak

Excellent. Love a good high seas video.

DOCARCH · 27-04-2019 10:55am

Yes....take video!

Had a very rough experience on that route years ago.

It was so rough that there was no hot food/drinks served and it was too rough for crew to clean vomit off floors/decks!!! Everybody was confined to sitting.

pm. · 27-04-2019 11:16am

We have had to slow down again, captain just announced that we won't hit Dublin until 10pm now...

Plenty of people getting sick I'd say too much breakfast, some people are eating like we are going to run out of food lol

Graces7 · 27-04-2019 11:18am

reminds me of a North sea crossing from scandinavia decades ago... I was so ill they would not let me off until I had seen the port doctor as there had been a typhoid scare. shudders.

road_high · 27-04-2019 2:13pm

God sounds like hell- usually on a plane with turbulence or bad weather they manage to pull out of it and it’s only temporary. A long ship crossing is relentless in rough weather like being stuck in a washing machine!

Pretzill · 27-04-2019 2:21pm

I travel this route often and even with a 6 hour delay before I slept through most of the rougher stuff. Hope it eases off for you OP. I was on the WB Yeats a few weeks ago it was a choppy crossing but I thought the ship was very smooth.

PauloMN · 27-04-2019 2:29pm

pm. wrote: »

We have had to slow down again, captain just announced that we won't hit Dublin until 10pm now...

Plenty of people getting sick I'd say too much breakfast, some people are eating like we are going to run out of food lol

Wow, that'll make it 24 hours on board so? About 8 more than it should be I think? Hope there's no damage on the parking decks.

Don't know how anyone can eat on a sailing like that. Was on an awful crossing as a young lad on Sealink ferry from Holyhead which still haunts me lol, just wanted to keep the head down and eyes closed.

road_high · 27-04-2019 2:39pm

PauloMN wrote: »

Wow, that'll make it 24 hours on board so? About 8 more than it should be I think? Hope there's no damage on the parking decks.

Don't know how anyone can eat on a sailing like that. Was on an awful crossing as a young lad on Sealink ferry from Holyhead which still haunts me lol, just wanted to keep the head down and eyes closed.

Ha ha exact same happened to me circa 1990- first time ever on a ship, day trip to Fishgusrd! Was a major deal at the time! Sick as a dog on the thing. Was fine with sailing ever since really. Sammy Sealink ftw

Has the ship from Cherbourg managed to dock yet in Dublin?

mad m · 27-04-2019 2:44pm

pm. wrote: »

Plenty of people getting sick I'd say too much breakfast, some people are eating like we are going to run out of food lol

Had same experience on a booze cruise years ago over to holyhead. Sick was everywhere. Sink bowls full of it. I had to lay down outside a toilet, seen this lady walk out. Everything looked black and white except this bright red handkerchief this lady was holding. She looked ok ,then the handkerchief gets flung to her mouth and sick squirts out of the sides.

Jesus it was brutal.

Popoutman · 27-04-2019 3:35pm

pm. wrote: »

Tried to attach a screen shot but the wifi is too weak this is where we are now 28°28'10.8"N 81°26'53.4"W

That lat/long put you just outside Orlando, Florida.

sparrowcar · 27-04-2019 3:39pm

Popoutman wrote: »

That lat/long put you just outside Orlando, Florida.

I knew it, he's a time traveller.

pm. · 27-04-2019 3:51pm

Popoutman wrote: »

That lat/long put you just outside Orlando, Florida.

Haha don't know that happened. We are just off rosslare harbor now, the conditions have really improved just slightly choppy now. Due into Dublin at 9:30 tonight Because we missed our time slot.

Everyone on board are so p!ssed off at this stage 24 hours on board with another 5/6 hours to go, would definitely make you think twice about taking the ferry. I feel sorry for people with very young kids. Our youngest is 7 so it's not too bad

The ship handled the weather well considering how bad it was. The only damage I can see are a few roof tiles missing from the club lounge.

I will post the videos tomorrow at this stage

Pretzill · 27-04-2019 3:51pm

Popoutman wrote: »

That lat/long put you just outside Orlando, Florida.

You can see it on Marine Traffic just off the Wexford coast says the ETA is 9pm. It must be travelling slowly.

Reckless Abandonment · 27-04-2019 4:19pm

Fair play to you. I'd of extended the holiday a few more days

look forward to seeing the videos.

Storm 10 · 27-04-2019 4:31pm

I'm very lucky when travelling on ships I have never got sea sick I love a good Storm rocking and rolling, on one trip from France to Rosslare on the St Patrick 2 we ran into storm force 10 my wife does not get sick either so we had dinner and a few beers that night, the one big memory was sitting at a bar table and watching massive waved going higher than the windows. I feel sorry for any one sea sick as I'm sure it must be a terrible experience.

MarkN · 27-04-2019 4:42pm

Fairly sure I saw F10-F11 in parts of the sea off the southeast coast of Ireland for today on the RTÉ weather last night.

PauloMN · 27-04-2019 4:50pm

Current position and lots of other info here. Speed dropped a lot between 6am and 8am by the looks of it, probably when it hit the worst winds.

Storm 10 · 27-04-2019 5:50pm

Looking at her track she seems to have sheltered off Falmouth Cornwall which would explain the long time for the trip, she departed there at 6am this morning

Elemonator · 27-04-2019 6:09pm

I remember a crossing in similar conditions on Irish Ferries Normandy a few years ago. You'll be fine OP.

aisling86 · 27-04-2019 6:22pm

My parents are on cork - roscoff, it didn't arrive into cork until 3.30pm, they closed boarding at 5pm not due to depart until 10pm. The longer they wait the calmer the seas might get hopefully.

Larbre34 · 27-04-2019 7:30pm

Elemonator wrote: »

I remember a crossing in similar conditions on Irish Ferries Normandy a few years ago. You'll be fine OP.

He'll be fine? Have you read on since post one, it sounds like a poxy awful crossing....

Pretzill · 27-04-2019 7:45pm

I think I'd be more annoyed it's taking so long for the ship to dock - It looks like it's been hanging around the same spot for the last couple of hours - It must be something to do with getting a slot in Dublin Port -

Rhys Essien · 27-04-2019 7:55pm

aisling86 wrote: »

My parents are on cork - roscoff, it didn't arrive into cork until 3.30pm, they closed boarding at 5pm not due to depart until 10pm. The longer they wait the calmer the seas might get hopefully.

The Pont Aven doesn’t mess about. Steaming back to Roscoff already.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-8.2/centery:51.7/zoom:10

Kmum · 27-04-2019 8:20pm

Also onboard, got caught in the brassiere restaurant (buffet style) with the kids at breakfast, plates, and bottles flying out of the fridges all over the place. The kitchen sounded like it was falling apart. They has to close it in the end it was too dangerous. Vomit everywhere! Thankfully we had travel sickness tablets and we’ve all been fine.

Over 30hrs onboard by the time we get off, waiting for another ship to leave Dublin before we can dock. Latest update is 10.30pm. Not impressed with the meal voucher but maybe that’s normal? 1 meal for a 12hr delay. When we went to get dinner you could only have curry or beef none of the other mains (lasagna, burger etc) really crappy food for the kids. Just want off at this stage..

pm. · 27-04-2019 8:45pm

Yep same as Kmum we are all p!ssed off at this stage, irish ferries could have of at least giving us access to all the food at the buffet. It's not like it's great anyway

Don't think we will be traveling to France via ferry for a long time. Just glad it's almost over

Reckless Abandonment · 27-04-2019 8:47pm

They should of cancelled the trip. I understand ships can sail in this weather. But jesus It will put most of the passengers off ever travelling by ship again.

First Up · 27-04-2019 9:18pm

Reckless Abandonment wrote:

They should of cancelled the trip. I understand ships can sail in this weather. But jesus It will put most of the passengers off ever travelling by ship again.

People need to get home. If its safe to sail, 99% of passengers would want to go.

PauloMN · 27-04-2019 9:53pm

First Up wrote: »

People need to get home. If its safe to sail, 99% of passengers would want to go.

Not to mention commercial traffic also. But I can imagine that a lot of holidaymakers would be put off by the experience.

First Up · 27-04-2019 10:01pm

PauloMN wrote:

Not to mention commercial traffic also. But I can imagine that a lot of holidaymakers would be put off by the experience.

Bad weather is a fact of life at sea but holidaymakers don't usually get the worst of it.

Crew will tell you that the worst crossing in summer is mild compared to what they experience in the winter.

HeidiHeidi · 27-04-2019 10:04pm

They're still doing laps of Dublin bay by the looks of it. That's one loooooong trip (I've discovered I know someone on board as well)

First Up · 27-04-2019 10:05pm

HeidiHeidi wrote:

They're still doing laps of Dublin bay by the looks of it. That's one loooooong trip (I've discovered I know someone on board as well)

Nightmare.

mad m · 27-04-2019 10:26pm

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

They're still doing laps of Dublin bay by the looks of it. That's one loooooong trip (I've discovered I know someone on board as well)

Have you a link of how to look up boats.

Crossing from Cherbourg to Dublin tonight

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