February 24, 2015

A left port yesterday morning. I saw her on the high seas from a fifteenth floor apartment in a building in Condado. We have had a series of high surf warnings, and so it is possible the ocean was a bit rough yesterday. If so, it did not seem to affect A – she moved through the water very smoothly, from what I could observe. She arrived in late December, and had been tied up at Pier 16 ever since, with little or no activity around her. I once noticed three or four crew members mopping the deck, and another time there was some kind of lift allowing the crew to work on a window from the dock.

A at sea, February 23, 2015.

I’m not sure where A was going. She was headed east, towards the US Virgin Islands, and the nearer Puerto Rican islands of Culebra and Vieques. Of course, she may have been heading to Casablanca, or Gibraltar. She did look spectacular in the morning sun.

A came back into port in the late afternoon – it was just a day trip. I watched her come into the harbor and then down the channel in back of our building. She, as before, did a 180 degree turn and backed down to Pier 16. Here are some images of A coming down the channel.

 Mr. Andrey Milinchenko, if you are reading this post, I must tell you how very disappointed I am in you. OK, so three months may have been too much to ask to use A – even though it has been sitting at the dock doing nothing. But a day trip – now that would have been nice. Some caviar and ice cold Stoli – think about it the next time you take her for a little spin.

For more information see my earlier post A Came into Port.