Is it hard to steer the Knorr in the large waves?
It takes alot of power to move and control the ship. As the wind and waves get stronger, it uses up alot of that power just to control the ship, let alone make it move well through the water. When the wind and waves get as big as some of the pictures on the web page show, it takes most of the ship’s power just to keep the bow (front) pointing in a safe direction, which is into the wind and large waves. If we let the ship get sideways to the wind and very large waves, it takes almost all of our power to get her pointed in a direction that we want, because of all that strength of wind and water working against us. We also don’t want to get sideways to the wind and waves because it is about the worst ride you could imagine. 3. Is it frustrating and confusing trying to do research in this weather? It certainly is frustrating at times. There are alot of stations (locations) that we want to get to, to take samples and get information for the scientists to take home with them. When the weathe
