Lee Lindquist wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:30:09 GMT, "Mark \(SF\)"
> wrote:
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>>I was on the Voyager OTS when we were forced to leave a day early. Realize
>>that this was only a 5 day cruise with 2 scheduled days (1 night in port) --
>>and we were there for 5 hours.
>
>
> Was this announced before folks went ashore...did everyone make it
> back on board?
The Captain announced before we went ashore that he wanted
everyone back on board before 5:30P -- and explained the reasons.
Sometime after 6:00 we were informed the ship would be headed to
St. George to pick up some guest that didn't make it back to the
ship in time. Sometime after 7:00P some of us got a "thrill"
show of watching 4 people (2 women, 2 men, I believe) jump from
the pilot ship onto VotS's ladder. The sea was very rough and I
was quite impressed that they all were willing to make the leap
-- not to mention keeping their stomachs in check.
The gossip going around the deck was that at least two of the
tardy passengers had children on board. Of course the gossip
changed every time I heard the reasons. However it does make
some sense for the ship willingness to be delayed so long and the
passengers willingness to take the risk.
The next day I ran into the Captain on the stairs and I couldn't
resist asking what penalties the tardy passengers received
(namely from St. George's port). The Captain wouldn't give any
information on that, but did talk about how the group had
received a police escort from King's Wharf to the St. George port
-- to which he was grateful.
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