Watch along as we share the off loading of Steppin’ Out this past week in Port Everglades Florida. It was a very long day for the crew but we’re so thankful that it went smooth and safe. Steppin’ Out spent the next three days making her way over to the Marlow yard for final commissioning. Enjoy!
The cargo ship BBC Newcastle spent 52 days crossing the Pacific, transiting the Panama Canal, made 6 ports of calls along the way and covered just over 12,000 nautical miles! We tracked her progress every day, twice a day as she made her way across the Pacific. The wait was painful and seemed to take forever but she slowly made it across, dodging a few storms along the way.
What you don’t see in the pictures above is that just as they lifted Steppin’ Out from the cargo bay and she’s hanging in the slings just above the deck, one of the cranes that was lifting, BROKE! They couldn’t set the her down or continue the lift and it took them 3 hours to fix it! Our broker called to share the news and I can tell you it was the longest 3 hours ever. Here we were, 22 months in construction, over 12,000 miles in transit and within feet of touching U.S. waters for the first time and she’s left hanging in mid-air! I was a wreck cause every YouTube video that I’ve seen of boats falling our of slings was played over and over in my mind. Finally, after 3 hours to fix the crane, she was slowly lowered into the water and with Capt. Mark at the helm, she slipped away under her own power and over to a marina for a rinse and splash of fuel.
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