Mollag

36 including women and children

There a long way of the eldest 97 is the oldest we’ve heard so far, just wondering at the moment who’ll be the latest passengers to return to the ship on Saturday morning to win the bottle of finest bubbles offered by the Captain, could be interesting 🤦‍♂️😂

We’re joining on Monday as well, having looked at the latest forecast models quite a few have a nasty depression forming to the SouthWest and depending on its track conditions will not be too good going around Ushant on Tuesday having said that models have been wrong before and I’m sure they’ll avoid any severe weather maybe lying in Falmouth again if needed. Your parents have nothing to worry about they’re fine sea boats tell them to enjoy themselves. Oh and I’m not a master mariner or armchair expert only 40 years a fisherman as well as lifeboat coxswain I hope that’s good enough to express my views

This might slow you down for a few hours

Portsmouth according to AIS

Storm Domingos might have something to do with it there won’t be much traffic across Biscay at the weekend

The centre of the depression was 964 at 1600 dropping 30 millibars in 8 hours is spectacular to say the least, data was from a French met buoy

We had to take evasive action quite a few times while trawling, various cargo ships ,ferries and other trawlers usually with no one to be seen on the bridge or seen scurrying up there just in time to alter. Like Sogne says all this technology is only as good as the human using it…………. if they’re present to use it

Had the call all booked 35% discount, 10% more for a B2B and pre registered for the next batch excellent service!

Can you tell them to hurry up and move on to April 🤪

No idea why they had St Lucia down as a tender port as only one other ship was showing there and there’s plenty of room. Personally not impressed with the alternatives but not much we can do about it. Still uncertain as to what will happen for the canal with the restrictions on movements in place

Key West has been put back a day from the original itinerary for the usual operational reasons but now we’re in on our own according to what’s in port app so hopefully we’ll be alongside, I take it you’re aware of the mandatory yellow fever jab or exemption certificate?

Thanks for that better make sure the phone is charged up

We eventually got the new itineraries after a phone call to them and this is the cruise we want but we’ve got to wait our turn, can I ask when you pre registered to give us some idea where they’re up to, we pre registered in April.

Can you tell me what SOA is doing on 5 Jan 25 please we’ve not received any emails from them yet despite pre registration TIA

Ludlow was aboard Aurora for a day in Reykjavik in July for a meeting with the senior management team on her and the Captain assured us he told them she’d be around for 5 years and beyond which as people may recall is what he said about Oriana a couple of moths before they got rid.

Pot,kettle,black springs to mind

They’re flying us from 🇮🇲 to Gatwick picked up there and taken to a hotel in Portsmouth for a couple of nights, hotel is at our expense but we need to leave a couple of days before because the boats and planes at the moment are a bit hit and miss to say the least

Maybe they’ll put an extra rope out each end in case there’s an unexpected squall

These squalls don’t just happen anyone whose spent anytime at sea knows you can usually see them coming in the shape of an ugly black cloud many miles away and decent seaman keep a weather eye out for such things maybe P&O should add this to their watch keepers list of duties as they don’t appear to be too observant, I’m not saying they could’ve prevented this happening but they should’ve been more aware of what was about to happen. Fail to prepare prepare to fail.

+1 one more to go and never returning to travelodge on sea AKA P&O

And the answer is…………

That’s what I’ve just asked them, what percentage of changes would be significant or if we were to lose the Panama partial transit would that be significant watch this space

Latest response from them

Quick update messaged them on Twitter and FB on Wednesday morning got a reply this afternoon basically asked them who are they waiting for to clarify the amount of changes before it becomes significant this is the reply so have politely asked them to read the question and told them I’m quite aware of the T&Cs and didn’t ask for any compensation just the answer to a simple question