Isle of Man ferry coming into port.

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Isle of Man ferry coming into port.

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Is that today ????
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It was posted on one of the IOM Facebook pages so would guess its recent.

Glad neither me nor my bike are on there. :D
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Crikey. I was on a crossing like that once. Not good :?
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Jesus, this is why I hate the sea, I would of been panicking!!
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Don't worry Rossgo ;) They give out life jackets on planes so I'm sure someone would have gone round the ship handing out parachutes (giggle)
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Haha it's brilliant logic these companies have isn't it
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The worst part of that would have been the smell of puke everywhere, nowt wrong with a rough crossing except the bikes and cars going through the spin cycle down below.
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Do bikes get strapped in as Deegee brings up a good point with that
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Rossgo wrote:Do bikes get strapped in as Deegee brings up a good point with that
They strap them very well,

I've been on that ferry when it's been like that. Utter puke fest :(

Bikes fared well tbh. Apparently they didn't do so other earlier years and scrapped a lot of fairings....
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Cheers for letting me know. Good that they do strap them down, could see it doing a lot of damage if they didn't in that sort of weather
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Tbh I have seen some badly secured cars and bikes on that crossing and god knows how they never broke free.
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