[BITList] Fwd: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: BALMORAL (WSN) will not sail in 2013

[M.j. Feltham]

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> From: "isshipping" <groups at irishseashipping.com>
> Subject: [IrishSeaShips] Re: NEWS: BALMORAL (WSN) will not sail in 2013
> Date: 12 December 2012 10:26:34 GMT
> To: IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com
> Reply-To: IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com
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> A slightly different version appears on the company web site:
> 
> 2013 Season 
> 
> Waverley Excursions Ltd has faced a number of challenging years in operating Waverley and Balmoral. Towards the end of this season, the Boards of WSN and WEL put a strategy group together to review the future operation of the ships.
> 
> The Charity's mission is to preserve Waverley in operating condition for future generations to enjoy. The Boards have a responsibility to ensure that the Charity's mission is delivered and that the interests of donors are protected.
> 
> Balmoral's operation has been hampered increasingly in recent years by extreme weather conditions. Clearly, we are unable to predict the weather for 2013, but none of the forecasters are predicting a significant improvement over recent years. After taking a wide range of considerations into account, the group has reluctantly concluded that it would be too great a risk for WEL to operate Balmoral next year and that doing so would increase the threat to the future of both ships. We are not in a position to take such a risk and so will only be operating Waverley in 2013.
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> At the moment Balmoral is being looked after on a care and maintenance basis by volunteers in Bristol. A group will be set up by WSN, with WEL input, to look at alternative ways of utilising the ship in 2013 and to seek to identify a robust operating programme to offer the prospect of returning her to service in 2014 and beyond. 
> 
> This has been a difficult decision and we trust we have your support in making it as it offers the best way in the current circumstances to ensure Waverley's continued operation. 
> 
> Waverley will continue to serve the communities in all the areas she has operated for so long. In 2013 you can step aboard the ship in the Western Isles, Clyde, Bristol Channel, South Coast and Thames with a long awaited return to North Wales in the planning.
> 
> We thank you for your continued support of the Waverley Charity and look forward to welcoming you on board next year.
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