On It’s Way…Finally

Goldring Travel July 31, 2008

The Clipper Pacific finally set sail from Tampa, Florida late on July 29th after completing numerous repairs. In addition to the failed steel plating being replaced, numerous other safety violations were addressed. The reports are that the crew was cooperative and they attended to many of the violations that were not required to be completed

Clipper Pacific Update – Still in Tampa and The News Is Not Great

Goldring Travel July 25, 2008

I wanted to give those of you interested an update on the Clipper Pacific…and it is not really very good news. She remains in Tampa and, according to a U.S. Coast Guard release late yesterday there is work being done to replace a 5 foot by 6 foot plate of steel along with some internal

Clipper Pacific Is An Old Friend – My Introduction to Cruising

Goldring Travel July 18, 2008

I was reading Cruise News Daily (a favorite of mine) this evening and discovered that the Clipper Pacific is the old Royal Caribbean Song of Norway. She is the first cruise ship I was ever on. An old girlfriend of mine, Kelly S., worked for a design firm in Coconut Grove, Florida (while I was

Clipper Pacific Update: Cleared to Sail…Sort Of.

Goldring Travel July 17, 2008

According to Newsday, the Clipper Pacific has as of about noon been cleared to sail…but not to Venezuela as contemplated. It is cleared to sail to Tampa, Florida so that permanent repairs can be made. As I had written yesterday, the temporary patch with cement and whatever else the ship might have done would never

Clipper Pacific Update

Goldring Travel July 17, 2008

It has been reported in the New York Times that “Commander Hitchen said that a temporary patch had been applied to a one-inch hole in the ship’s hull by its crew before it docked. “It’s a minor leak that could be handled by the pump, but any hole is of concern,” he said at a

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