Nicky Mouse

I bought mine via Robinhood, easy signup and instant funding. I later transferred them to my Schwab account.

Thank you @chengkp75, I've always enjoyed your posts and your insight, going all the way back to the NCL Project America(Hawaii) days. (btw, had great dinner with Brian Walters (our GM) last year on the Sun and had great convo about early days in Hawaii) It's refreshing to get the insight and perspective from people with actual experience of what is involved behind the scenes.

I did hear them make these type of announcements, but the issue is they won't be heard in the rooms unless you had the tv on the bow cam channel or one of the others that plays announcements. They will usually only do announcement in room if it's serious emergency, or the 3:30am announcement for a code alert. (People get cranky if their nap time is interrupted, even if it is to tell them they should strap themselves to the bed to prevent ceiling collisions)

I don't know about historical, I think some websites might have that data. (the Carrot weather app is supposed to) I started watching the weather and ship position after we left Glacier Bay. Instead of staying in the channel and following Encore, we went out to open sea and did a loop on Thursday night, and it got a little rough. I couldn't get an answer for why we were heading that way, but I was asking folks who's main jobs are beverage related and not navigation related. They just said that's what we have to do. My theory is that because the Seabourn ship was leaving Skagway, and the channel is narrow, the captain was giving her time to get out of the channel before we entered. As for the weather once we left Juneau, since the wind maps were showing the winds were a little rough in the channels as well, my guess is the captain chose to stay in open water where at least we couldn't be pushed up against the rocks, but IANAMN. (I Am Not A Maritime Navigator)

No, but I did learn there is a very good reason late season Alaska cruises are only about $350 for 9 days.

I agree completely and figured this is exactly what was going on. I chatted up a couple of officers and the CD to get a few updates.

The weather did kinda come out of nowhere, I was watching it onboard on the wifi. It didn't have much in the way of rain on radar, but the winds were doing a very large rotational pattern. Even in Juneau while docked I could see the winds pick up and the water surface get worse before we left. I heard the crew talking about the incoming weather, so I'm inclined to believe this was not expected.

Thank you for this, I agree completely. Lots of armchair quarterbacking going on.

They were boarding new crew arrivals. Passengers aren't allowed on that early.

They had to do pier 91 in order to use the crane. (66 does not have one) This might have been to fix something caused by the rough seas, so it was not known they wouldn't be returning to pier 66 when we sailed. The port of Seattle website also showed that we were supposed to return to 66, so I'm thinking this was unexpected and uncontrollable. I had heard there were shuttles to take people to 66, but it was confusing. We ended up in a shuttle that ran all over the place.

Three of the four of us also tested positive after getting home. As for the ship 'health center' that's not uncommon, and why I always get separate travel insurance for stuff.

Not exactly correct. The Sun has two more Alaska sailings. The one on the 11th (after ours) and then one on the 20th (10 day) and then on the 30th she does her repositioning to Orlando. I had booked that but cancelled today due to some obligations that came up.

I was on the same cruise, was the roughest I've been on so far. Don't believe ship gossip, we didn't take on any water. The announcement at 3:30am was about something had shifted in a store room and they need things secured for safety. My friends tested positve for covid when we got back home.

I was on the this ship last year and made friends with several of the crew and a couple of the officers. I will be on the ship again soon, it's simply a curiosity if some of the folks I met last year are back on board. I've been on almost 2 dozen cruises and there are several of the cruises where I remember some of the crew and officers.

Can someone post the current officers on the Sun? Thanks.