Thursday, August 21, 2014

Sail Date Update

This Monday, August 18, we had our weekly Community Meeting.  Finally, we received an update about the sail:

Our new sail date is September 5th(ish).  It will take at least that long to get and install a part for the propeller.  Unfortunately, we also have to move again.  The ship needs to be back in the shipyard in Las Palmas for the repairs, though at this point in time we do not plan to go into dry dock.  Dry dock is when the ship is pulled front the water so every inch of the ship is accessible above water.  There is a possibility that we will have to go into dry dock, but we are trying to avoid this.  During dry dock periods, all the families (those with children) must leave the ship.  Children cannot be aboard during the dry dock.  Again, that is not the plan at this time.

Las Palmas is the island where Joe and I met up with the ship over two weeks ago.  We had only been there two days before we sailed the five hours to Tenerife.  We did not have a chance to explore the island and are hoping to be able to do so in the next few weeks.

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