One Sailor has Jumped Ship

[eroller]

It’s confirmed that Scarlet Lady Captain Wendy Williams has quietly left Virgin Voyages.  Kind of shocking.  Not very often you see this happen, especially after all the hype of a female captain.  No word from VV on the replacement.  
 

https://www.porthole.com/captain-wendy-williams-quietly-leaves-virgin-voyages/

[Captain_Morgan]

Thanks OP for confirming the rumors as I’d heard several months ago from a colleague who was working for VV as a third party contractor that Wendy was no longer the captain and this was while the ship was still in the yard.

 

i wasn’t given any specific information apart from the change, but it doesn’t bode well IMO for a company which spent so much time and hype about their female Captain only to quietly sail without someone with whom much publicity was made.

i have no dog in the fight as it were but I don’t see the niche that VV angles for as being sustainable given the lack of support from a larger, established cruise corporation and the fact that they seem to be more gloss than substance.  And for those who think Branson is bank rolling the operation I suggest a little homework on that angle...

 

as an aside, I had also heard there were many other reasonably high ranking officers who were swayed to VV with promises of various degrees which were never kept so this could very well be in part what’s happened with the now former Captain, who in fact was never really the Captain at all...

 

will be interesting to see how it shakes out in the end but starting a company with such hubris only leads to disappointment and I’m sure once the shiny gloss wears off all that will be left are those who’ve been drinking copious amounts of kool-aid...