No, and calm crossings are slightly more common than rough ones. Of the crossings travellers reported to us, 54 percent were Drake Lake and 46 percent were Drake Shake. What you can't do is choose. Which one you get is luck, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

The single strongest piece of evidence we have for that sits in our own survey data. Of the 292 travellers who reported both legs of their voyage, 136 got one Drake Lake and one Drake Shake on the same trip. That's 47 percent, nearly half, experiencing both extremes within about a week of each other on the same ship.

If conditions were predictable by season, month, or vessel, that number would be much lower than it is.

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