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Storm Brewing Over Cochin

Jamie — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:30:55 +0000

It’s a bit early but the storms have started brewing over Cochin. I remember two years ago sailing from Goa to Cochin having to motor straight through some nasty weather and seeing lightning like you see in this video clip.

Around the one minute mark you’ll see it’s just like someone turning the kitchen light on and off. It feels like monsoon is just around the corner.

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Final Sailing Today Six-Parter Published

Jamie — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:43:06 +0000

The last instalment of our six-part story of our trip from Turkey to India has been published in Sailing Today.

Over the last year our story of the Vasco Da Gama rally, including our passage through Pirate Alley and across the Arabian Sea to India, has been serialised in British sailing magazine, Sailing Today. In this story we make our way down from Goa to Kochi with friends Emma and Katie straight through some nasty storms, signalling the beginning of monsoon.

Sailing Today Issue 171 is out now and is also available online here.

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What Do 7 Metre Waves Look Like…

Jamie — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:30:53 +0000

…from the inside?

Some of you may have seen this clip but for those who haven’t, this was recorded on the CCTV cameras of a cruise ship that got caught in a storm.

P&O’s ‘Pacific Sun’ was carrying over 1,700 passengers and 600-odd crew when it hit 50 knot winds and 7 metre waves off New Zealand back in 2008. These internal CCTV shots show firstly the saloon and then the storage area of the ship.

This does remind me of a couple of passages I’ve done in the past but I can honestly say I have never seen anything like this. Thanks to Mike for sending us this one…

And in case you are wondering what that might look like from the outside, here is a clip of another cruise ship taken from a helicopter.

I wonder what’s on the menu this evening?

Finally, a small clip taken from the bridge of a commercial vessel having to endure something similar. The cameraman crapping himself is classic cinematography!

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