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Great ferries! Love to see them on the harbour. Lucky they saved the South Steyne two nites ago!

These old ladies take it in their stride

those new Chinese Junks would SINK XD. BRING BACK ALL FOUR FRESHIES

She's rolling a little...

How is it struggling ? We used to live for rides like this back in the day ! So good.

That's what they were built for...reveling in weather and seas like this. Of course built in Australia, I would like to see how those new things go in this weather?

She’s doing ok, not sure about the passengers!

looks extremely marginal, i'm surprised services were not cancelled

Cobar ain't in QLD you muppet

Who remembers the Ferry Races when they used to sink? Was it New Years Day?

Sure seems to clipping for a struggle

This is every Captains dream, a nice rock n roll swell to challenge you...its pretty boring job going back and forth from the quey to manly...it been on one of those trips it was a hoot, not for those that get sea sick or jangled nerves, pretty cheap thrill ride I went over got my wobbly legs off, It took 5 goes to dock as we keep slamming against the pier and then went back...lots of fun even my motel bed was moving latter that night or was it the floor

1:25 Seriously? Someone's taken their sailboat out for spin? Man, that's someone on some other kind of business!

It's been over 40 years, but I can clearly remember several trips from the Cerculer Queue to Manley on the ferry in heavy weather. The crew of the ferry weren't able to get a line over to the guys on the jetty, and the ferry almost ended up on the beach. Before the skipper started reversing back out to an area between Sydney heads. We did this a couple of times before finally the crew managed to get a rope across the blokes on the jetty and securing the ferry. Good times

Struggling,😂😂😂. No where near it, that’s nothing, she’s just merrily strolling along, not even breaking a sweat, one of the safest vessels in any sea.

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Yay, I used to travel on the Manly ferry a lot and especially loved the crossing in wild weather or swell. Thank you for posting this.❤

Was your ferry not struggling? Wtf

It's not struggling at all! Oh dear

I would be struggling if I was in a row boat, mcdik

I used to sail out of various clubs on sydney harbour. When I was sailing out of CYCA in rushcutters Id catch the ferry home to neutral bay. If I had my wet weather gear with me and the weather was like this Id gear up and go out the front to have a bit of fun. Sailing out of sydney amateurs once on a saturday we were just south of middle head when we were hit by a freak storm that came out of nowhere and laid a deep fog over us in what felt like seconds, accompanied by huge winds that knocked us flat. Then it just lifted. The harbour looked just like this video, but in the middle of summer. Being a saturday all the boats were out and everywhere you looked there were skiffs and boats knocked flat. it was all over, except for the wild wind and seas, in 10 minutes. Never seen anything like it before or since.

Use to love going to manly and back to the Quay on days like that 👍

A lovely little video thanks for the memories over65 years of travelling on the ferry I remember the north head and south Steyne and sometimes the wild sea.

The new ferries cant do that.

Collaroy is not struggling, she can handle swells lot bigger than that. The Freshwater class ferries, MV Freshwater, Queenscliff, Collaroy and Narrabeen revell in big swells.

what happened to the hydrofoils? cut right through this chop, didnt they? still... the only good time to be on a ferry... 6ft or more swell :)

I loved doing this trip twice a day. Thinking of moving back to Manly now I’ve seen this.

Reminds me of the time when l was a kid on the Dee Why on route to Manly. The swell was epic and to watch that triple expansion steam engine working hard with those flashing rods and steady beat was just magic,memories?

I wish I was on board for that trip

Not struggling, doing well what she is designed to do.!!!!!

Skipper here, fresh water class still crossing over the sound is partially calm waters. Lovely footage though mate.

SS South Steyne use too frolic in extreme conditions as I travel on her in the 60s and 70s.

When windows break on the Ferry - 1973 was up there.

Struggling? Hahaha....far from it, that's just a normal day across Sydney heads. The only ferries that can handle it, not like the new emeralds rubbish. Blech.

Struggling my arse😂

Ah yes those were the days...you could always tell who the tourists were ,screaming in terror and panic..meanwhile Muggins here(Me) would be standing at the F'ocastle(Pointy end of bow .)Yelling yeah .Come and Take me !....

That was the best part of going to Sydney, getting wet on the front of the ferry

My grandmother would have loved it. If there were rough weather forecast, she'd do what she could to make a trip on the last ferry before services were suspended - that of course was back in the 50's and 60's.

Not struggling. She is handling it very well.

Struggling? Not even close. Heavy swell? Looks like 1.5-2m tops. Hardly a heavy swell.

Not struggling at all, more like revelling. Please change the clip title

I remember visiting sydney back in the late 70s and being on board one of the wooden ferries, ( always my favourites) it was horrendous weather and that vessel hit the massive swells on the way to manly, it was brilliant how that vessel handled those heavy swell it was truly well worth the ferry ticket price watching the bow go down so far then ride it up so high, loved it, unlike many of the other passengers!

My late father reckoned that the ferry trip to Manly in this type of weather was the best fun for three pence (about two cents), this was of course 90 or more years ago.

we were on holiday in Sydney.. from Victoria and I can remember doing a trip like this l.. I guess I was 6 or so... to say I was all agog would be tame... I can remember huge grey walls of water rushing towards us , then bounce and there was open space, then another wall of grey water... it was, WOW

Great vision, thanks for the memories...hope the passengers did not have breakfast at the Manly wharf before leaving. I'll never forget the queen of the Harbour, the mighty Scottish built South Steyne. What a workhorse and sight she was back in the 50's and 60's. Largest steam propellled ferry anywhere and used to make these waters look like a duck pond....

Oh man that looks awful. Somebody pass me a bag. Like # 14.

Surprised it's still there, I'm sure the Idiotic labour government wants to tear it down

The best time to experience the Manly Ferry, unless you are from Wossieland (Formerly Queensland)

Poor Collaroy will likely never see service again :( Excellent footage of my favourite ferry of all time, this video clearly demonstrates that she is a good vessel and fit for service. Such a waste to retire her for seemingly no reason. Thanks for uploading this great video of my most beloved boat :)