In 1998 (or 1999) we were living in the Seabeck area and is commute to Everett to work at the Boeing plant, there. One night there was a major storm when the power went out, trees down allover, and a lot of rain. I stayed up most the night because if the storm and to make sure I was up in time to get to work. I made it to the Kingston Docks on time, meet up with the vanpools and got on the ferry when it was safe to do so Being very tired I laid down in the van and tried to get some sleep. Well, that wasn't too be. About a quarter of the way to Edmonds the boat hit some huge waves where one in particular cause the bow to lurch high and then slapped down hard. I sat up to see nothing but sea spray. Cars, and a motorcycle, around the van were pushed back by the on-rushing water, as the bow pushed under the waves. I immediately got out of the van as the captain got on the PA and ordered everybody up to the passenger deck. As I got up to the passenger deck I noticed many had spilled their coffees and they were trying to clean them up. When we arrived in Edmonds the captain told us that the ferries would not be operating anymore until the storm abated. We were able to get the ferry ride back at the end if the day. What a fun time.
I was on a final run from Kingston to Edmonds and hit a windstorm...blew a window out. But also on that route...we got close to a container ship crossing our path and their wave sent in a slow motion rock from side to side.
@@jugeebean Yesterday we were coming home from Orcas to Anacortes - totally calm. But Coupeville to Port Townsend was another story. Holy shit was that scary!! Been fortunate all these years to never have taken a ferry in a storm.
TH-cam: *recommends videos* Me: *scrolls through recommendations* TH-cam: *recommends video of the ferry I ride where I live* Me: At this point I'm waiting for the google hitman
For those not from the area, there are also wicked tidal currents to deal with. I think this is often the hardest landing in all of Washingtons Ferry system.
We took the Kennewick from Coupeville to Pt. Townsend yesterday afternoon and my god that was stressful as hell! Ferry was all over the place and slamming down. Cars were hopping and rocking. 10' swells easy. I had to focus out the back at Whidbey for something to concentrate on. I have never taken a ferry in rough weather like that before. Makes it a completely different experience.
@@THX-ov8rv Pretty wild ride. I remember commuting on the old foot ferries on the Bremerton-Seattle run. 1990/1991. If you sat down in the bottom of the boat, you could FEEL the waves and the logs hammer the hull you had your back against, for the entire ride on a stormy day. Not the most comforting feeling and why I used to refer to those particular boats as "The Tin Cans".
I work for WSF and can confirm this is the hardest route in the fleet and often if it's a new captian to the route they send a 2nd captian for the first few crossings on rough days to make sure all goes well.
I have been on the Mukilteo ferry during rough weather. Water always splashes up on to the car deck and the ship rocks around. It is really fun! (Make sure that you wash your car if you take one of these ferries during rough weather because salt water rusts your car much more easily than fresh water.
There are heavy duty Rip Tides just outside the cove there. The weather didn’t especially look stormy to me, but the Rip Tides are pretty dangerous as you can tell by the rocking of the boat!
The ferry system at Seattle is one of those things that is just COOL! I would sometimes just Walk-on the ferry and spend a Saturday afternoon riding back and forth....The food and beverages are OK and not too terribly overpriced....Try it!
@@notsoaverageslovenian Regrettably....No. But, given the opportunity, I would. I haven't lived in Seattle for many years. But, that ferry ride would be on my Top 10 Things To Do List if I should return.
Really weird as part of this dosnt give you a true perspective of the conditions ie looks reasonable but second look and the ferrys been tossed around like a Cork!!! Great peice of film, thanks for sharing 👍👍
When I looked through the car deck and saw how wildly their perspective must be changing - that was the best indicator for me. Oh those folks must have felt ....sick sick sick.
Focus on the truck toward the bow of the car deck and that'll tell you how much that boat was rockin'. I rode that route during a high-wind day but it was _nothing_ like _this._
OMG I've taken that ferry to Port Townsend and back to Ft. Casey travelling between my home here in Everett and Port Angeles SO MANY times lol on foot back when I was a teenager, all the way up to last summer. The Whidbey Island route between Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula is the ONLY way to go!
I have road this ferry many, many times. Once I brought a friend along and we were seriously being tossed like this. All she could say was OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG... 🤣 My grandpa lived right on the other side off Fort Casey Rd. I love Ebey's landing awesome little camp ground there and large park with old bunkers from WW2. people should check it out. Coupeville, WA. My husband (rip) was a joker and when my nieces and nephews were little we would ride the old ferries. Once we were on the Klickatat and the kids asked why it was called Klickatat. My husband said, because when it goes across the water it makes the sound Klickatat, Klickatat, Klickatat 😉 🤣😂
Have been on Salish many times, but down here between Vashon and Tacoma in some much calmer waters when she was taking over for her sister ship Chetzemoka
That is the most rough water capable boat in the fleet, along with its sister ships in the Kwa di tabil class. Beam seas cause rolling and those are the prevailing conditions on the route when the northwest wind sweeps in the Straits.
Actually its the least rough water capable vessel in our fleet due to it having no keel and a very shallow hull as well as a huge surface area on its sides. But since voters refused a different dock on whidbey, wsf had to build these vessels in order to navigate the very very shallow keystone harbor. Anacortes run gets hit much harder than port townsend and our larger vessels take it much better.
wrong. These ships are horribly designed pieces of crap. The ships they replaced were good ships and would never have rocked like that nor would have had any issues with those winds.
@@UberNerd When were they replaced? I have taken these ferries plenty of times over the years and not until more recently noticed the ride is much rougher. Yesterday from Coupeville to Pt Townsend was especially harry.
Greetings to you from Sequim, WA! Knowing how the north sea can get, this must seem tame from your perspective. Still, the sea is the sea, and must be respected always.
Yeah weather can get kinda screwy in the Puget Sound my folks live on Orcas island and I went back to visit from college during what ended up as a really big winter storm 80+ mph gusts of wind, waves that went down the center of the car area of ferry and me being the forward most car and being tired stayed in the car sleep... No sleep was had, thought I was going to die from the windshield caving in on me the force the water was hitting it with... still shutter when I see that I will be riding on the elwha even now years later
We took the Kennewick yesterday out of Coupeville to Pt Townsend. Hole lee shit!! That was some scary shit I will tell you! I have ridden the ferries in Puget Sound many, many times but I never remember it being so violent like yesterday. We were being thrown every which way and the ferry was slamming down, cars bouncing and rocking, alarms going off. Makes me not want to take a ferry again :(
I've taken the PT-Keystone ferry several times, with weather rivaling this; but not this windy and rough -- not going toward Keystone anyway. That approach angle is generally not the favored approach, but in wind like that it would be very hard on the passengers to be taking beam waves all the way across.
Agreed. Far as I'm concerned it will always be Keystone. No it's not a town, it's a landing. If anything call it Fort Casey if you can't handle Keystone for whatever reason. But Coupeville just ain't right. It's well north of Keystone on the lee side of the island, with its own cove FCOL!
@@briane173 I know, that was confusing to me too? I lived on Whidbey back in the 90's and recently visited. Couldn't quite visualize how the ferry was coming out of Coupeville to Port Townsend. It doesn't. But man, that ferry ride home was too, too much. Very scary.
We lived in Yakima and been to Seattle numerous times to visit,stay,n play... caught a lot of ferries over the waters, but this one you definitely got your money's worth on a ride.. those ships are so cool to ride on.. definitely Pacific northwest!
This is mild compared to worse storms. Busted the hull on a ferry a few years back and found extensive damage to the other ferries for the route, this is one of the newer ones with reenforced hulls just for PT/Coupvile.
I grew up on Bainbridge Island, 8 miles west across Puget Sound from Seattle. That was the 1950s, when they were still running wooden flat bottoms smaller than this dating from the 1930s. We took those ferries all of the time. Only twice did I get a ride so rough that I became focused on what I should do if the boat swamped or rolled. The big steel boats used now on that run just plow through the swells - it's quite a show for the newby, particularly if you go down on the lower car deck. (Yes, you can get a salt water car wash in very rough sea.)
Um, being on that ferry yesterday in even worse conditions did NOT feel at all like the boat just 'plowed thru the swells'. She was slamming down and we were rolling a good 45degrees in every direction. Scary shit!
As a Vancouver Island resident and usually taking BC ferries why do a lot of the Washington ferries in the fleet not have a closed car deck? Is there a risk that if weather gets too rough the waves could overwhelm the open car deck and possibly cause it to sink? Makes me think of the accident with the Estonia ferry fiasco in Europe where the car deck opened up and the rough weather caused the ferry to founder.
Living on Whidbey, if only cancellation s were rare occasions! I've been stranded a couple times by the Port Townsend route. Granted given that they're the smallest ships over the roughest route and trickiest docks, it's not surprising. Keystone is a hard landing.
Cancellations are more often due to tides than weather; but weather _can_ be an issue from Fall to Spring. Keystone-Pt Townsend crosses over open water to the Pacific so that route's more susceptible to rough seas and high winds. But more often I've gotten to Pt Townsend only to find out the sailing was cancelled on account of low tides.
It’s one of my favorite ferry runs that WSF does. But I’ve seen far worse footage. Theirs one where the WSF is getting pounded by waves/wind in a winter storm. Water nearly eclipsing the bow of the ferry,
My sister and I were on the Bainbridge Ferry in November storm in the 80’s and it was so violent the vending machines fell over. Now they just cancel runs.
When it comes to boating, I'm with you all the way, even when it is rocking like this one. When I was not in school, my grand-father and I had a fifteen foot boat we go fishing every Friday and Saturday, it was fun. I wish I had a boat now, but I am not a millionaire. Can't afford it.
This is nothing, that's not even 5 degrees, all WSF vessels are designed with a magic number in mind, and that number is 15 degrees, you go past that and you're probably going to capsize, but like I said, they never get near that.
I live in Admirals cove and took the port Townsend ferry before it's definitely a rocky ride my son couldn't handle it. We were taking a trip to Forks 😀
I wonder how many people threw up during that roll, because i see nobody on the upper deck, if anyones was up there they are super brave in those conditions
It’s not Coupeville, it’s Keystone. Coupeville is on the other side of the island. Yes, I know the city annexed the area solely so they could attach their name to the ferry run, but Coupeville is on the other side of the island. The ferry dock is at Keystone. 😾
The weather conditions did not look that bad but the ferry was going up Down pitching like a CORK from a bottle plus water getting unto car deck not sure I would.like 2 b on board from Belfast northern ireland
This is one of those new ferries that were designed by idiots and that replaced and retired the ferries with good hulls that would not rock like that. If you look at ferries that were retired, they were very good in this type of low swell high wind situations... this ferry was designed by a firm that had never designed a ship before.
Port Townsend Washington is one of my favorite places in the world. I have been there so many times before when I was still a seaman. We always go to Port Hudlock.
Grew up on Whidbey Island not far from this ferry dock. Rode this route many times in far worse weather years ago on smaller and older ferryboats. Taking water over the bow that would then run to the stern and drain off the boat was common in winter.
Scary whit that open bowe. It was probably that way Silja Estonia looked, out on open sea going full speed in 9 meter high waves once she'd lost her bow visire that horrible autumn night in 1994. If only they knew.
My car stays nice and dry in any UK ferry. They all have bow and stern doors. A few small ones have no overhead cover, but the deck is never awash. Strikes me as irresponsible ship management, making customers cars salty.
FYI have done shipyard work on WSF. Have absolutely no watertight redundancy . Just a giant bathtub below the car deck. Once it starts taking water goodby
and Dog if that was the case you know as much as i that the Coast Guard wouldn't let them sail.same with the Victora run since any of the ships that sail 'international' have to meet certain maritime codes and standards.
The crew that does that run know their stuff no rookies on board that run. Boat is a big sail. Nasty river of a current right at the opening of the little cove the verry goes into so having to time that just right to thread that needle in there.
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That's a Pro captain doing a great job under challenging conditions!
In 1998 (or 1999) we were living in the Seabeck area and is commute to Everett to work at the Boeing plant, there.
One night there was a major storm when the power went out, trees down allover, and a lot of rain. I stayed up most the night because if the storm and to make sure I was up in time to get to work.
I made it to the Kingston Docks on time, meet up with the vanpools and got on the ferry when it was safe to do so
Being very tired I laid down in the van and tried to get some sleep. Well, that wasn't too be.
About a quarter of the way to Edmonds the boat hit some huge waves where one in particular cause the bow to lurch high and then slapped down hard. I sat up to see nothing but sea spray. Cars, and a motorcycle, around the van were pushed back by the on-rushing water, as the bow pushed under the waves.
I immediately got out of the van as the captain got on the PA and ordered everybody up to the passenger deck. As I got up to the passenger deck I noticed many had spilled their coffees and they were trying to clean them up.
When we arrived in Edmonds the captain told us that the ferries would not be operating anymore until the storm abated.
We were able to get the ferry ride back at the end if the day.
What a fun time.
I was on a final run from Kingston to Edmonds and hit a windstorm...blew a window out. But also on that route...we got close to a container ship crossing our path and their wave sent in a slow motion rock from side to side.
@@jugeebean Yesterday we were coming home from Orcas to Anacortes - totally calm. But Coupeville to Port Townsend was another story. Holy shit was that scary!! Been fortunate all these years to never have taken a ferry in a storm.
TH-cam: *recommends videos*
Me: *scrolls through recommendations*
TH-cam: *recommends video of the ferry I ride where I live*
Me:
At this point I'm waiting for the google hitman
For those not from the area, there are also wicked tidal currents to deal with. I think this is often the hardest landing in all of Washingtons Ferry system.
We took the Kennewick from Coupeville to Pt. Townsend yesterday afternoon and my god that was stressful as hell! Ferry was all over the place and slamming down. Cars were hopping and rocking. 10' swells easy. I had to focus out the back at Whidbey for something to concentrate on. I have never taken a ferry in rough weather like that before. Makes it a completely different experience.
@@THX-ov8rv Pretty wild ride. I remember commuting on the old foot ferries on the Bremerton-Seattle run. 1990/1991. If you sat down in the bottom of the boat, you could FEEL the waves and the logs hammer the hull you had your back against, for the entire ride on a stormy day.
Not the most comforting feeling and why I used to refer to those particular boats as "The Tin Cans".
I work for WSF and can confirm this is the hardest route in the fleet and often if it's a new captian to the route they send a 2nd captian for the first few crossings on rough days to make sure all goes well.
I have been on the Mukilteo ferry during rough weather. Water always splashes up on to the car deck and the ship rocks around. It is really fun! (Make sure that you wash your car if you take one of these ferries during rough weather because salt water rusts your car much more easily than fresh water.
Janet i kinda missed Port Townsend. Do you have any more vedio.
Been on that ferry many times but never that rough. The captain earned his pay that day. I will wager everyone was happy to get off in Coopeville.
Hat's off to all the crew and captain.
There are heavy duty Rip Tides just outside the cove there. The weather didn’t especially look stormy to me, but the Rip Tides are pretty dangerous as you can tell by the rocking of the boat!
The ferry system at Seattle is one of those things that is just COOL! I would sometimes just Walk-on the ferry and spend a Saturday afternoon riding back and forth....The food and beverages are OK and not too terribly overpriced....Try it!
@@notsoaverageslovenian
Regrettably....No. But, given the opportunity, I would. I haven't lived in Seattle for many years. But, that ferry ride would be on my Top 10 Things To Do List if I should return.
...welcome to Washington...>)
good cpt. Well done!
Making the wind work for the Capt. crew & passengers. Well done.
Really weird as part of this dosnt give you a true perspective of the conditions ie looks reasonable but second look and the ferrys been tossed around like a Cork!!! Great peice of film, thanks for sharing 👍👍
When I looked through the car deck and saw how wildly their perspective must be changing - that was the best indicator for me. Oh those folks must have felt ....sick sick sick.
@@picklesnoutpenobscott3165 It was awful!!
Focus on the truck toward the bow of the car deck and that'll tell you how much that boat was rockin'. I rode that route during a high-wind day but it was _nothing_ like _this._
OMG I've taken that ferry to Port Townsend and back to Ft. Casey travelling between my home here in Everett and Port Angeles SO MANY times lol on foot back when I was a teenager, all the way up to last summer.
The Whidbey Island route between Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula is the ONLY way to go!
Scary... Whoever was in charge of the ferry deserves a drink after that...
I've ridden the ferry on some rough waves but probably not this rough. My rides definitely were not this dramatic.
Nice piece of boat driving!
Was on the Bainbridge ferry years ago and the horizon was disappearing out of both the top and bottom of the windows. Rocky ride that evening.
Scary shit !!
Amazing!
That captain has ice blood. It is from another world.
Good navigating!
I was just on that route yesterday wow didn’t know it could have been one of these trips
We took that route yesterday - and it was very scary! Ferry was all over the place and slamming down from the 10'+ swells. No thank you!!!
good memories of childhood on ferries getting tossed in the winter storms. always my favorite ferry rides.
I have road this ferry many, many times. Once I brought a friend along and we were seriously being tossed like this. All she could say was OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG... 🤣 My grandpa lived right on the other side off Fort Casey Rd. I love Ebey's landing awesome little camp ground there and large park with old bunkers from WW2. people should check it out. Coupeville, WA. My husband (rip) was a joker and when my nieces and nephews were little we would ride the old ferries. Once we were on the Klickatat and the kids asked why it was called Klickatat. My husband said, because when it goes across the water it makes the sound Klickatat, Klickatat, Klickatat 😉 🤣😂
Have been on Salish many times, but down here between Vashon and Tacoma in some much calmer waters when she was taking over for her sister ship Chetzemoka
That is the most rough water capable boat in the fleet, along with its sister ships in the Kwa di tabil class. Beam seas cause rolling and those are the prevailing conditions on the route when the northwest wind sweeps in the Straits.
Actually its the least rough water capable vessel in our fleet due to it having no keel and a very shallow hull as well as a huge surface area on its sides. But since voters refused a different dock on whidbey, wsf had to build these vessels in order to navigate the very very shallow keystone harbor. Anacortes run gets hit much harder than port townsend and our larger vessels take it much better.
wrong. These ships are horribly designed pieces of crap. The ships they replaced were good ships and would never have rocked like that nor would have had any issues with those winds.
@@UberNerd When were they replaced? I have taken these ferries plenty of times over the years and not until more recently noticed the ride is much rougher. Yesterday from Coupeville to Pt Townsend was especially harry.
wau, what a prof captain, so greath,, greatings from denmark
Greetings to you from Sequim, WA!
Knowing how the north sea can get, this must seem tame from your perspective. Still, the sea is the sea, and must be respected always.
The Baltic sea is rarely this bad.
I’d ride with that skipper anytime!
Yeah weather can get kinda screwy in the Puget Sound my folks live on Orcas island and I went back to visit from college during what ended up as a really big winter storm 80+ mph gusts of wind, waves that went down the center of the car area of ferry and me being the forward most car and being tired stayed in the car sleep... No sleep was had, thought I was going to die from the windshield caving in on me the force the water was hitting it with... still shutter when I see that I will be riding on the elwha even now years later
We took the Kennewick yesterday out of Coupeville to Pt Townsend. Hole lee shit!! That was some scary shit I will tell you! I have ridden the ferries in Puget Sound many, many times but I never remember it being so violent like yesterday. We were being thrown every which way and the ferry was slamming down, cars bouncing and rocking, alarms going off. Makes me not want to take a ferry again :(
We sailed on the Kennewick from Coupeville to Port Townsend yesterday. Hole Lee shit!! Mukilteo from now on!!!
Nice landing despite the weather. I'd be nice to have a wingwall on the port side on the approach as an insurance marker.
HAHA AFTER THAT, I WOULD HAVE SEEN A LOT OF I-5 DRIVING BACK HOME LOL
We took this ferry yesterday precisely because I didn't want to take I-5!! WRONG decision! We were rocking and rolling extreme!!
I admire the captain and pilot's skills in navigating a tricky approach in the best of weather, let alone gale force winds like this.
The captain is the pilot on these boats 😊
Been on that ferry MANY times in that kind of weather over the years.
How much does it cost to be on one??
Like $9 walk on, $17 on up depending on your vehicle size and probably certain ferry’s ⛴
I've taken the PT-Keystone ferry several times, with weather rivaling this; but not this windy and rough -- not going toward Keystone anyway. That approach angle is generally not the favored approach, but in wind like that it would be very hard on the passengers to be taking beam waves all the way across.
"all passengers are advised to remain seated"
All passengers are to remain YEETED
No storm...just wind
Great video. I wouldn't fancy being on that ! :)
Very skillful handling of a ship that is not easy to control in conditions like that !
Couldn't tell
Always found the naming of this run to be strange. Coupeville is actually on the opposite side of Whidbey and the ferry landing is Keystone.
coupeville is not on the other side its 5 miles away if that.
Keystone isn't a town.
I'm with Jorgen. It's been called the "Keystone run" since I was a kid. Maybe WSF trying to help dinky little Coupeville get on the map...
Agreed. Far as I'm concerned it will always be Keystone. No it's not a town, it's a landing. If anything call it Fort Casey if you can't handle Keystone for whatever reason. But Coupeville just ain't right. It's well north of Keystone on the lee side of the island, with its own cove FCOL!
@@briane173 I know, that was confusing to me too? I lived on Whidbey back in the 90's and recently visited. Couldn't quite visualize how the ferry was coming out of Coupeville to Port Townsend. It doesn't. But man, that ferry ride home was too, too much. Very scary.
Very interesting and scary if I were on it..
Bbrilliant
My younger brothers and I were born in Coupeville. I miss the ferry rides in Washington.
Was just there last weekend with my hubby. We want to move our young family there. Did you like growing up in coupeville?
We lived in Yakima and been to Seattle numerous times to visit,stay,n play... caught a lot of ferries over the waters, but this one you definitely got your money's worth on a ride.. those ships are so cool to ride on.. definitely Pacific northwest!
This is mild compared to worse storms. Busted the hull on a ferry a few years back and found extensive damage to the other ferries for the route, this is one of the newer ones with reenforced hulls just for PT/Coupvile.
It is a very intense, nerve wracking ride! No thank you!
I never understood why Washington state ferries have no doors , even most of the smaller ones in British Columbia do....
I grew up on Bainbridge Island, 8 miles west across Puget Sound from Seattle. That was the 1950s, when they were still running wooden flat bottoms smaller than this dating from the 1930s. We took those ferries all of the time. Only twice did I get a ride so rough that I became focused on what I should do if the boat swamped or rolled. The big steel boats used now on that run just plow through the swells - it's quite a show for the newby, particularly if you go down on the lower car deck. (Yes, you can get a salt water car wash in very rough sea.)
Um, being on that ferry yesterday in even worse conditions did NOT feel at all like the boat just 'plowed thru the swells'. She was slamming down and we were rolling a good 45degrees in every direction. Scary shit!
As a Vancouver Island resident and usually taking BC ferries why do a lot of the Washington ferries in the fleet not have a closed car deck? Is there a risk that if weather gets too rough the waves could overwhelm the open car deck and possibly cause it to sink? Makes me think of the accident with the Estonia ferry fiasco in Europe where the car deck opened up and the rough weather caused the ferry to founder.
Looks like that thing would roll in the dry dock.
I LIKE PORT TOWNSEND WASHINGTON. IT'S OUR LIBERTY PORT EVERYTIME WE ARE IN PORT HUDLOCK WASHINGTON. I NEVER GET TIRED OF THAT PLACE.
Not exactly rough, certainly no storm. Just it has no freeboard! Just a bit of a roll from a beam sea off one quarter.
What storm, a high sided vessel catching the wind, rolling a bit, nothing to get your knickers in a twist!!
That’s why I’m nervous to ride ont he ferry this year I get car sick easy and if I go on the ferry I will get sick to my stomach 🤢
Great work Cap!
Got Sea Sick just viewing this thing, ha ha.
That route’s got a history of occasionally being an interesting ride, even cancelled on rare instances!
Living on Whidbey, if only cancellation s were rare occasions! I've been stranded a couple times by the Port Townsend route.
Granted given that they're the smallest ships over the roughest route and trickiest docks, it's not surprising. Keystone is a hard landing.
Cancellations are more often due to tides than weather; but weather _can_ be an issue from Fall to Spring. Keystone-Pt Townsend crosses over open water to the Pacific so that route's more susceptible to rough seas and high winds. But more often I've gotten to Pt Townsend only to find out the sailing was cancelled on account of low tides.
I’d have shit a brick if I were on that boat
It’s one of my favorite ferry runs that WSF does. But I’ve seen far worse footage. Theirs one where the WSF is getting pounded by waves/wind in a winter storm. Water nearly eclipsing the bow of the ferry,
My sister and I were on the Bainbridge Ferry in November storm in the 80’s and it was so violent the vending machines fell over. Now they just cancel runs.
@@liesbethrobison Oh god! For such a nanny state they don't seem to really give a shit about the ferry system!
That's rough water specially the boat is trying to get to port.
Storm? Hell I've seen worse storms in my bath tub. If you call that a storm maybe I should come work there.
If you were on that ferry you'd understand,
When it comes to boating, I'm with you all the way, even when it is rocking like this one. When I was not in school, my grand-father and I had a fifteen foot boat we go fishing every Friday and Saturday, it was fun. I wish I had a boat now, but I am not a millionaire. Can't afford it.
That's not a ferry, it's a puke production facility. 😆
The vesel is just like a toy being rocked by the wild sea.
I bet that was the last run of the day
Nope. This route goes till 9:10 in winter. Summer schedule starts in May. I'm regular customer
So..is this 'normal'? Is this kind of rolling within safety limits? Have you been on this route in weather like this?
ed p No they’ll shut em down if it gets to bad.
This is nothing, that's not even 5 degrees, all WSF vessels are designed with a magic number in mind, and that number is 15 degrees, you go past that and you're probably going to capsize, but like I said, they never get near that.
I’ve been on this ferry in calm seas, but passing through the wake of cruise ship. It’s hard to imagine a ship of this size being tossed about.
You think that is rough come ride the Alaskan Ferries in the winter.
I live in Admirals cove and took the port Townsend ferry before it's definitely a rocky ride my son couldn't handle it. We were taking a trip to Forks 😀
Just about within her operating limits , bigger seas would have been huge problem .
Coupeville , Washington
I wonder how many people threw up during that roll, because i see nobody on the upper deck, if anyones was up there they are super brave in those conditions
last time i was on that ferry it was pretty calm and it was still a pretty rocky ride.
It’s not Coupeville, it’s Keystone. Coupeville is on the other side of the island. Yes, I know the city annexed the area solely so they could attach their name to the ferry run, but Coupeville is on the other side of the island. The ferry dock is at Keystone. 😾
The weather conditions did not look that bad but the ferry was going up Down pitching like a CORK from a bottle plus water getting unto car deck not sure I would.like 2 b on board from Belfast northern ireland
That was amazing. I don't like riding on ferries, but that was really amazing.
I live in Coupeville and take.this ferry often. it's most frequently cancelled and have had a few pretty rough sailing myself.
This is one of those new ferries that were designed by idiots and that replaced and retired the ferries with good hulls that would not rock like that. If you look at ferries that were retired, they were very good in this type of low swell high wind situations... this ferry was designed by a firm that had never designed a ship before.
The Nichols boats are awesome. Huge boat, no wake.
Port Townsend Washington is one of my favorite places in the world. I have been there so many times before when I was still a seaman. We always go to Port Hudlock.
POLLYANNA POSITIVE why Port Hadlock?
@@yonemitsu1 i was a seaman working for the U.S. Navy
So glad to watch a video with GOOD music. Thanks for posting!
Audra Odeh NO music would be right.
Grew up on Whidbey Island not far from this ferry dock. Rode this route many times in far worse weather years ago on smaller and older ferryboats. Taking water over the bow that would then run to the stern and drain off the boat was common in winter.
If that is a storm then obviously you have not experienced one. Its only because this ferry is too shallow and rocks with the mimimum wind.
How deep is the channel where the ship moored. I know ferries have shallower draughts, but I don’t know why ?
Puke bags would sell well on that vessel!
I ride this ferry every month.
I need a bucket...
Nice video, well done!
From a naval architects point of verw a badly designed ship for the praviling conditions
1:47 That ship needs to go into dry dock because the front and back walls are missing. 🤭
Scary whit that open bowe. It was probably that way Silja Estonia looked, out on open sea going full speed in 9 meter high waves once she'd lost her bow visire that horrible autumn night in 1994. If only they knew.
She isn't build for much weather :)
My car stays nice and dry in any UK ferry. They all have bow and stern doors. A few small ones have no overhead cover, but the deck is never awash. Strikes me as irresponsible ship management, making customers cars salty.
Aye Matey we like our Ferry Rides Salty !
FYI have done shipyard work on WSF. Have absolutely no watertight redundancy . Just a giant bathtub below the car deck. Once it starts taking water goodby
Isnt that how one sank in the late 80s?
@@shannamac3974 We had a bridge sink and one ferry run aground but don't remember a ferry going down.
and Dog if that was the case you know as much as i that the Coast Guard wouldn't let them sail.same with the Victora run since any of the ships that sail 'international' have to meet certain maritime codes and standards.
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Elvis
Watertight doors. Up to two compartments can be flooded
How about handing the camera to someone who doesn't have Parkinson's next time
i have been on this run when it was just like that. you had to get your sea legs really fast.
The boat is made to handle big swells. It can probably handle swells up to 40 feet.
But your car isn't built to handle 40' waves. Wonder how many slid into each other.
hahaha!
This is the video I show people when they complain the PT route is down for mild winds or low tides
Surprised that she didn't get beached.
The crew that does that run know their stuff no rookies on board that run. Boat is a big sail. Nasty river of a current right at the opening of the little cove the verry goes into so having to time that just right to thread that needle in there.
0:26 green water on the foredeck, yarly.
Hard-a-lee!!!!
Heri.romadhon🤔🤪😜😜🦥🇦🇩
This is typical for this route. I take this ferry all the time. Salish not running now. It's the Kennewick . my regular schedule
Fuck Kennewick and Richland and Pasco too. Trash cities
must of been crazy
i been on the klickitat on rough seas
One of the least aesthetic and weirdest designs in the fleet.
Speedbird I agree...I've tried to like it (and the Kennewick) but it just isn't going to happen. Evergreenfleet.com
I love that website. Hang on are you the author? You don't know how big a role in my childhood your website played in my life. I love it so much if that's who you are.
I don't know who authors that page speedbird. A favorite of mine too.
Speedbird Come to Vancouver where our ferries have closed bow doors, and better fucking ships
Mr. Cloroxguy - I’ll take the WSF ferries any day over the BC ships. The WSF fleet retain a PNW aesthetic, the BC ships are soulless, hulking RORO’s.
Currently landlocked ... Definitely want to go back!
God bless the Boss Man/Woman at the wheel! I’ll be taking this ferry in a couple of weeks and I truly hope I have a smoother ride! 😬