i love hearing your orcadian accents because my family havent got really broad orcadian accents cos we hav lived on the mainland of scotland for sooo long! i have been on the boat so many times and you know what i find, there is always a JBT lorry on at the same time!
Understandable. I've been on a rougher crossing from Aberdeen to Lerwick, this was on the MV Hjaltland. The swell must of been approaching 8 meters at times. All I remember was fittings coming lose etc. Believe me cars and lorries were being strapped down to the deck that night!
@4thdreamer Hi there, the big lorries were strapped down but the cars just sit on their handbrakes. Car alarms were going off all over the place and the crew made regular checks to make sure that everything was secure. I was a purser on a cross channel ferry for several years and it was one of the roughest crossings that I've ever had. The Pentland Firth really lived up to its reputation!
because it was reversed on. The dock at the other side rises and falls to accommodate the tides and it is more practical to reverse lorries on so that they can be driven off forwards
thats normal weather...
123sweyn 1 week ago
We went last week and it was as smooth as glass
hecarriesmyburdens 7 months ago
last summer i got to go into the bridge of the boat with my dad and little brother!! It was pretty cool!! :)
Orkneygal0100 10 months ago
i love hearing your orcadian accents because my family havent got really broad orcadian accents cos we hav lived on the mainland of scotland for sooo long! i have been on the boat so many times and you know what i find, there is always a JBT lorry on at the same time!
Orkneygal0100 1 year ago
Understandable. I've been on a rougher crossing from Aberdeen to Lerwick, this was on the MV Hjaltland. The swell must of been approaching 8 meters at times. All I remember was fittings coming lose etc. Believe me cars and lorries were being strapped down to the deck that night!
4thdreamer 1 year ago
Why isn't anything strapped down in the car deck?!
4thdreamer 1 year ago
@4thdreamer Hi there, the big lorries were strapped down but the cars just sit on their handbrakes. Car alarms were going off all over the place and the crew made regular checks to make sure that everything was secure. I was a purser on a cross channel ferry for several years and it was one of the roughest crossings that I've ever had. The Pentland Firth really lived up to its reputation!
loobyloo1303 1 year ago
because it was reversed on. The dock at the other side rises and falls to accommodate the tides and it is more practical to reverse lorries on so that they can be driven off forwards
loobyloo1303 2 years ago
thanks :D
bryanttie 2 years ago
why is the lorry parked backwards?
bryanttie 2 years ago
Because there is only one way on and one way off
go2orkney 4 months ago