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| The weather hadn't changed much by the time we went down for the sailings with warm sunny spells or cold and thick dark clouds so I was glad I wore a cardigan and my padded jacket. All four ships had been listed to sail at 5pm but they changed it. Black Watch would now go first at the allotted time followed by Arcadia at 5.30pm, Navigator of the Seas at 5.45pm and finally Aurora at 6pm. From about twenty people down the marina it had grown to around eighty by the sailing times. But the waiting was amusing. One woman asked who she was with if Aurora was QM2! Before any departures, the training ship Tenacious went by and headed out to the Solent. | |||||||||
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| As usual with ship stalking things rarely run to plan. Black Watch finally cast off at 5.29pm followed by Arcadia a minute later. It was unusual for Black Watch to be docked port so once she started moving with the aid of a tug, there was no stopping her even though she didn't blast. | |||||||||
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| (C) Copyright Patricia Dempsey 19th May 2007 Not to be reproduced without permission |
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