Raise Up Her Colours and Designs – Azores – [10/19/2013]

Raise up the ramps, let go the lines
Bring up her colours and designs
Prepare for casting off
And through the port we’ll slip
Each person standing at the rail
Has one great thought prevail, one single prayer:
God bless this noble ship

Batten down the hatches m’dears, here comes the Crossing.

There was, initially, fear that we were leaving people behind in Portugal today – the same two passengers had to be paged three times before we finally let go lines and with the usual three cheers on the whistle, the ship took a hard heel to the port and started our slow way across the temperamental Atlantic to our final port of call in Fort Lauderdale.

7 long sea days stretch ahead of us now, 7 days of nothing but endless blue water and grey horizon.

Ready or not, here we come…