*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Mike Luther ***

WD> If you have stories to tell, please use the addressess mentioned above

Anything help with that info on the straights out here?  I checked again. 
No ¨special stuff.  Could be size of ship?

I transit that damn thing all the time.  Best I can recall is the water is
¨sometimes rough but it's a storm ridden area too at the time we normally
cross ¨it.

Whe you get farther away from land, normally the 'chop' (waves) are so
'long' ¨(wide) that you just get these swells which those of us used to
sea, barely ¨notice other than they rock you to sleep.

Sorry, brain fart at the moment on the name of the spot other than that
trail ¨through Indonesia just below China.  It's either before or after
Singapore and ¨always related to Singapore for our travel.  It's where the
huge volcano ¨erupted that caused the 'year with no summer' and impacted
even as far as all ¨western Europe though the starvation in Asia was far
worse.

                                       xxcarol

--- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4