ms Oosterdam Sail-Away January 18, 2016

[erewhon]

Emerald P. underway.

[erewhon]

Oosterdam captain obviously very happy with work done to turn ship around ready for 1700 departure.:)

[Lizzie68]

Oh dear, they sure are having problems with the FL webcam.

[lka1012]

I would imagine that a few folks missed air connections due to the late arrival of the O'dam. But if she actually was the one who rescued the missing person, how do you really get mad because a life was saved. Thoughts?

[Scrapnana]

Oosterdam captain obviously very happy with work done to turn ship around ready for 1700 departure.:)

 

It is an amazing job to do that in about six hours. Kudos to all of them.

[St Pete Cruiser]

To Carole and all the good and lucky people on board : Have patience with the crew as they are probably stressed with the quick turn around. The itinarary for the 11 day is a really nice one. I noticed the Koningsdam will be doing a version of it next season so that indicates demand for it as well.

I'm also impressed the Oosterdam could do 24 knots. She goes into drydock this spring, so the hull may need scrapping, or maybe not if she can still go that fast. Think that is max speed for a Vista class.

[PathfinderEss]

Emerald making some good toots.

[Scrapnana]

Lots of people out on deck.

 

Four toots from Princess. Some of these captains are finally getting the spirit!

[erewhon]

4good toots from Emerald P. and good closeup of Canadian couple.

[erewhon]

Queen Mary and then Queen Victoria due in later this week.

[Scrapnana]

Queen Mary and then Queen Victoria due in later this week.

 

Roy (rafinmd) said something about starting a sail-away thread on them but not sure if he is going to put it here or on the Cunard forum.

[PathfinderEss]

At least webcam FL is focused on the Oosterdam.

[erewhon]

It's hard to understand how there can be late arrivals when under normal cicumstances the ship would have sailed by now!

[lka1012]

She looks all alone by herself. And I wonder if weather has delayed flights. Reason number 999999 to both fly in at least one if not two days early and stay over a day afterwards.

[Boytjie]

She looks all alone by herself. And I wonder if weather has delayed flights. Reason number 999999 to both fly in at least one if not two days early and stay over a day afterwards.

 

Little Silver Wind is there to keep her company. ;)

[Boytjie]

Which ship has passengers en route from Miami?

 

And someone tooted but both ships still have lines up.

Edited January 18, 2016 by Boytjie

[Scrapnana]

Yikes! Missing documents and people coming from Miami!

[Scrapnana]

Little Silver Wind is there to keep her company. ;)

 

"Little" being the key word there. She looks like a toy in comparison to other ships. If Oasis or Allure were sitting next to her she would look like a white lifeboat!

[PathfinderEss]

Yikes is right.

[erewhon]

Crew won't be too happy after the effort made to turn ship around.

[PathfinderEss]

Passport problems, really.

[erewhon]

And now someone has passport issues! Captain ready to single up.

[Happily@Sea]

The story from the captain: of boat in distress, at 5 am coast guard took over and by the crew's information narrowed the search area. The 10 passengers were rescued.

 

We are attempting to leave at 5 pm, depending on traffic.

Edited January 18, 2016 by Happily@Sea

[Scrapnana]

Must be someone on a B2B since they said someone had gone to try and get the passports out of the safe.

[Boytjie]

Veendam is still in Key West: http://keywestharborwebcam.com/