Northwest Commuting Fun

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:15 pm

A co-workers wife took these shots of one of our ferries during the windstorm we had on October 19 during the evening commute. This is the Cathlamet, which is 328' long, 78'8" wide and displaces 2477 tons and holds 124 cars. I ride the ferry every day, and was on my way home during this storm. The boat I rode was significantly larger, but some of the same effects were there. I normally ride the Walla Walla or the Spokane, each of which are 440' long, 87' wide and displace 3246 tons and holds 202 cars.

On my commute, the vanpool I ride was on the lower deck, in the tunnel almost all the way forward. I stayed in the van to nap and saw some of those waves dousing the cars on the upper wing walls (second deck). It was quite the ride...

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:17 pm

Wow, neat pictures! Must have been a fun ride.

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:01 pm

Fun ride indeed. The boat I was on though was nowhere near as fun as the one pictured. Didn't bother me as much as some, I'm retired Navy and have had much worse rides in my career.

loudwagon15s · Post by **loudwagon15s** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:16 pm

must have been some hellish winds to kick up waves like that in such a small body of water.

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:07 pm

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, winds were 50+ mph.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:18 pm

Crazy wind and also some really good pics

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:42 am

Great pics... I have no doubt for someone that may have been on the ferry for the first time might rethink it

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:35 am

Thats a shit ton of fun dude.

smoker · Post by **smoker** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:31 am

we got a ferry here that takes you from ky to ohio across the river, its huge dude, holds like 8 cars....ive only been across it on a motorcycle though

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:23 am

smoker wrote:we got a ferry here that takes you from ky to ohio across the river, its huge dude, holds like 8 cars....ive only been across it on a motorcycle though

I was on a boat from England to France that probably held a good 30 cars. That was a really neat ride.