I reckon this driver was trained by the Royal Marines.

[Kirkhill]

780K views · 5.7K reactions | MV Caledonian Isles rocking it’s way into ardrossan this morning 🌊 11th December 2025 9:15am | Jack Hirschfield

MV Caledonian Isles rocking it’s way into ardrossan this morning 🌊 11th December 2025 9:15am

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[OldSolduer]

780K views · 5.7K reactions | MV Caledonian Isles rocking it’s way into ardrossan this morning 🌊 11th December 2025 9:15am | Jack Hirschfield

MV Caledonian Isles rocking it’s way into ardrossan this morning 🌊 11th December 2025 9:15am

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I got seasick watching that….

 

[Blackadder1916]

Same ship, same port, different day.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=784975528665320

Seems that Ardrossan is not the easiest port to get into when there is any sort of weather. From a comment on a page about CalMac ferries and weather, ". . . It was one of those days when the Captain advises you “stay seated” as she makes the right turn into Ardrossan to berth. . . ".

 

[Kirkhill]

Same ship, same port, different day.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=784975528665320

Seems that Ardrossan is not the easiest port to get into when there is any sort of weather. From a comment on a page about CalMac ferries and weather, ". . . It was one of those days when the Captain advises you “stay seated” as she makes the right turn into Ardrossan to berth. . . ".

To be honest I was fascinated by how that ship handled in the first video. The speed with which that stern came around and then was countered. It seemed to me more like a boat than a ship.

My sympathies were with the passengers.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Some of the Greek ferries are spicy as well

Not sure where this is, but sketchy

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Actually, the rocking is due to the need for the captain to use speed and power to turn, but lose the forward momentum almost as quickly. Basically, he is "rocking the boat" by going quickly into helm-counterhelm-helm-counterhelm, etc. in cycles, which creates drag and thus quick loss of forward speed with power on and causes the rocking motion. To effect the turn, you just hold on one cycle (helm or counterhelm) more than the other a little bit to get the turning effect.

It's text book shiphandling. I've had to do the same with Gate Vessels parking with 90 degrees off-jetty wind at Esquimalt's A3 jetty, with the steamers sticking their god-damn sterns 40 feet off the end of A2, blocking part of the approach.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

@daftandbarmy , I wasn't being facetious. It is an actual shiphandling technique that we teach in classes.

 

[daftandbarmy]

@daftandbarmy , I wasn't being facetious. It is an actual shiphandling technique that we teach in classes.

I just had an image in my mind of you yelling out a porthole at a Frigate

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Oh! I didn't have to curse. They were so stressed at seeing a Gate Vessel coming in, rocking, at speed, close to their precious ship, that it caused enough panic in them running around carrying every last fender they could get a hold of.