On December 30th, the Prinsendam made a large donation of curtains and diapers to the local rotary club of Port of Spain, Trinidad. This was a follow up to our previous donation in Manaus, Brazil on December 12th. The local rotary club (oldest established club in Port of Spain being 54 years old) will take…   read more of “Captain’s…”

After our spectacular day in Grand Turk, we have an even nicer day at sea to day. It remained indeed wind still, or nearly wind still, and the sun shone as it if it had to catch up from long time before. Also the high ocean swells that had been bothering us for most of…   read more of “04 January 2011;…”

As mentioned yesterday I was concerned about the weather. The Bahamas’ and the Caicos are all low lying islands, Keys and reefs and are completely exposed to the North Atlantic weather. The dock is not sheltered for any sort of ship higher than 25 feet or so. Also the pier is a concrete podium on…   read more of “03 January 2010;…”

This place is one of the two alternatives that the company is developing for San Juan. The other one is Ponce on the south side. Mayaguez is located on the West side of the island and thus gives another option in case of inclement weather. At least that it is the way I am looking…   read more of “02 January 2011;…”

Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar. Happy 2011 to everybody out there in the big wide world. I wish you all a prosperous and healthy year and maybe it the best year ……….yet. The centre piece of the midnight show (and eat) buffet. 2011 ice carving in multi colors. Onboard the celebration of New Year is one big…   read more of “01 January 2011;…”

The wind had died away completely during the early morning and it was calm of wind when we made our approach. However we saw a swell running towards the dock and that was not in the books at all. The continuous bad weather in the North Atlantic kept pushing wave fields into the Caribbean Sea…   read more of “31 December 2010;…”