{"id":673,"date":"2018-01-06T04:06:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=673"},"modified":"2018-01-06T04:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:09:34","slug":"not-landing-at-edinburgh-of-the-seven-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erikbloodaxe.nz\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Not landing at Edinburgh of the Seven Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just after first light on Thursday January 4th, we approached a moody Tristan da Cunha shrouded in mist and rain and in marginal conditions. The scheduled dropping anchor at 0700 was delayed until 0900 and the weather did improve a little in that time. The RMS anchored to the east of the settlement and the lava flow that threatened to wipe it out in 1961.<\/div>\n

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A RIB (Rigid-hulled Inflatable Boat) came out from Calshot Harbour with an immigration representative to stamp passports before passengers proceeded ashore.<\/div>\n

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However, it was not to be. Given it would take two to three hours to ferry a hundred odd passengers ashore and then the same back, the currently less than ideal conditions and a worsening forecast, the captain decided that only essential transfers would be made. The initial disappointment of not being able to land turned to increasing frustration as the weather steadily improved all day and it was dawning on passengers that having come all this way, there may not be another attempt to land and that an opportunity to get ashore for even a short time had been missed. In the late afternoon after the essential transfers were complete, the captain offered his humble apologies for not getting us ashore and said that whilst the weather was not great on the Friday, there was a better window on Saturday 6th. Whilst this would not allow people the originally planned overnight stay with the locals, it would hopefully allow everyone ashore for a few hours. Leaving for St Helena on Saturday evening should still see us arrive on Wednesday 10th as planned. <\/div>\n

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