Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
I travelled on the Spirit of Free Enterprise. 1981 or 82 I think.
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Salty seadog
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Edited to say that I'm coming up for a million miles. Did my calculations originally on only going one way.
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Reynard
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Reynard
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Dover - Zeebrugge? Wow...
Salty seadog
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Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Aye, but it's not half a million different miles. It's the same 26 again and again and again and again and...
Salty seadog
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I don't know if you saw my correction on the milage but it's coming up to a million as I did my calculations based on only going one way.
Reynard
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Ah right. The majority of my crossings were Dover - Zeebrugge / Dover - Oostende / Ramsgate - Oostende.
You work on the ferries @Salty seadog ?
Reynard
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Salty seadog
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I do
.In fact I've just thought that it's probably over a million miles as I did 3 years on another company before I clocked up 20 years where I am now.
Reynard
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Neat
I take my hat off to you. 
On good days it must be great, on bad days...
Have been on my fair share of umm, interesting crossings. One particular run from Dover to Zeebrugge springs to mind, where the ship was rolling so much that the bottles in the bar and duty free were falling out of the racks and smashing. Apparently when that happened, that was the crew's share to do with what they wanted. Though that night, some also got broken accidentally on purpose.
But they had to shut the duty free on account of the broken glass...
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
Neat
On good days it must be great, on bad days...
Have been on my fair share of umm, interesting crossings. One particular run from Dover to Zeebrugge springs to mind, where the ship was rolling so much that the bottles in the bar and duty free were falling out of the racks and smashing. Apparently when that happened, that was the crew's share to do with what they wanted. Though that night, some also got broken accidentally on purpose.
Seen plenty of days like that over the years. It's a pain when on duty but when in my cabin the rougher it is the better I sleep.
Reynard
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I bet you have...
Though I'd imagine the larger and more modern ferries can take the weather better than the 6,000 gross tonners I grew up crossing the Channel on. I remember how much of a revelation the Prins Filip (now MV Calais Seaways) was compared to everything else sailing to Belgium at that time.
