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What sounds could I expect to hear while sailing on a wooden-hulled clipper ship across the Atlantic?

Update:

The main think I want to know is what sound waves make

striking against the wooden hull.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I've sailed wooden hulled yachts all over the place ( see my avatar)....wood is a great sound insulator; even in a howling gale you know you are at sea, you can hear a deep thump as waves hit the boat but its not till you get on deck you hear the roaring and crashing and howling......and that's just the crew. The sea makes a deep thump as it comes aboard as a breaking wave, otherwise in most conditions just a hiss as the bow parts the sea and your clipper ship goes roaring off at ten or twelve or fourteen knots....

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    What bubba said plus Haliads clattering on the mast.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The wind in the sails, the creaking and groaning of the ships timbers, the crash of cresting waves, the skipper buggering the cabin boy.................

  • 6 years ago

    Creaking, some thumping, and maybe even a little water sloshing. But that should be about it.

  • 7 years ago

    A bit too much info there Bubba, Lol. But thanks for the other. Groaning was the word I was searching for.

  • 7 years ago

    vomiting sounds

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