Captain Albert Retires!

[ShipsAreTheBest]

Well, I knew this day would arrive, but still sad to see that Captain Albert Schoonderbeek has retired from HAL after 42 years!

 

See here - we will still hear from him!

 

https://www.captainalbert.com/2023-may-24-change-of-course/#more-151797

[ger_77]

Congratulations to Captain Albert; may he have a long, happy, healthy retirement ahead of him!

[1ANGELCAT]

He will be missed. I found his lectures on HAZl history to be excellent. 
    Best wishes for a long and happy retirement.

[aliaschief]

Congratulations Captain Albert and thank you for your countless contributions over your outstanding years of loyal service to the Fleet, crews and guest of Holland America Line.

[oaktreerb]

I was fortunate to meet Captain Albert aboard ship and enjoyed his lecture.  I’m glad his blog will continue and he’ll carry on as a Holland America historian in retirement.  I’ll miss his reports of cruising from the Captain’s viewpoint!  I remember one report of sailing south from Alaska through the inside passage and the seas were so rough that he sailed inside the Canadian islands and sailed past Bella Bella.  That is not on a HAL itinerary.  So, Bella Bella was added to my bucket list and was fulfilled when we sailed south from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy on the very modern BC ferry system.  

[Copper10-8]

Just beat me to it! 😉 Congrats and a Happy Retirement to Kaptein Albert! His two (originally, now more to come) books are outstanding if you are into the history of HAL. He will always be "Mr. HAL" when it comes to that topic!

[JeffElizabeth]

We got to sail with him on the last voyage of both the Prinsendam and the earlier Rotterdam.  Such a wonderful man with so many cool anecdotes and stories. Loved his presentation on the Atlantic passenger ship races. 

[Cruise Suzy]

From the blog: ... there are also “wheels in motion” to have the books available in the shops on board, hopefully sometime in June/early July.

 

Now I know how to spend my OBC!

[kazu]

Congratulations to Captain Albert on his well deserved retirement.  May he have a long, happy and healthy one.   He has been a font of HAL history and information for so very long.  How lovely he will continue in retirement 👍 

 

 

[VMax1700]

Captain (Retired) Albert has updated the 'Current Captains and their Schedules' element of his website.