The nice weather held and we arrived this morning with sunny skies and a cool breeze blowing from the North East. A bit of a cool wind is not bad at all for Half Moon Cay as it makes it less warm later in the day and this indeed happened. Nice sunny weather with bearable… read more of “27 Feb. 2016; Half…”
This is cruising at its best. It is not too warm outside, courtesy of a cool north Atlantic breeze. The sun is shining and it is a following wind and thus the relative wind on deck is nothing more than a gentle breeze. I wish we could have this during every sea day. Yesterday on… read more of “26 Feb. 2016; At…”
Because the time/distance between pilot station and docking is so short and the port layout is so simple, all the cruise ships arrive at nearly the same time. If there were traffic lights they would all be lined up behind each other waiting for their turn. There is not a traffic light system of course… read more of “25 Feb. 2016;…”
Our medical evacuation in Grand Turk yesterday caused a delay in departure and thus we arrived a bit later today in San Juan. Nothing we can do about it; saving lives comes first at all times. But the captain put the pedal to the metal and tried to make up as much of the lost… read more of “24 Feb. 2016; San…”
The last cruise call at Grand Turk was a bit of a disappointment weather wise, at least for the operational side; too much wind, this week it was picture perfect. Clear skies, gentle breeze and no swell. The only complaint we could make was, that we were not the only ship in port. Shortly after… read more of “23 Feb. 2016, Grand…”
With extremely nice weather, both sun and sea, we are sailing north of the Bahamas towards Grand Turk Island. Because of the very nice seas we have a lot of cargo traffic around us, Cargo ships that have not opted this time for sailing through the Old Bahamas Channel. The old Bahama channel is a… read more of “22 Feb. 2016, At…”
Today it was a very good day for being in Ft. Lauderdale, also as a turn over port. It was sunny but not too warm; there were plenty of cruise ships in but nothing on the road to slow down the procedures. For once the Nieuw Amsterdam only had to wait for the pilot to… read more of “21 Feb. 2016; Ft….”
Today we were together with the Oosterdam and today was a little bit of a mixed blessing. For the guests the weather was great. Only after departure it started to cloud over and with a cool wind blowing it was nice on the island and not too warm even with the sun. The other side… read more of “20 Feb. 2016; Half…”
