Edinburgh departs for Cape Town
Report from Cynthia Green on 22nd February 2017
Passengers went on board MV Edinburgh at about 11am today and she sailed for Cape Town at 11.50am.
The passengers were: Islanders Leon Glass, Brian & Peggy Rogers, Beverley Repetto, Gracie Glass, Margaret Swain and Neil Swain, Nurse Jacoba-Kumi Joubert, Extra-Curricular Officer Carmen Ferreria, Ovenstone's Clinton de Bod and RSPB's Philip Lambdon who had worked on Gough Island.
MV Edinburgh anchored off Gough Island in 2015
On 18th March the new Ovenstones vessel MV Geo-Searcher is scheduled to leave Cape Town for her inaugural Tristan voyage, taking over from MV Edinburgh as the principal fishing vessel. Nevertheless the reliable Edinburgh will continue Tristan passages, carrying passengers and frieight to the islands, and being available to fish if needed. Therefore the vessel is unlikley to be seen off the outer islands of Gough, Nightingale and Inaccessible except when needed as a auxillary fishing vessel.