We slept pretty well on our first night. We could feel the ship moving when we woke during the night but it was not unpleasant.

After getting organised, we headed across the pool deck to the nearest restaurant for breakfast, before going to the gym for a personal training session. This seemed like a good idea at the time but it reminded us that we were not as fit as we thought we were!

In the afternoon we explored the ship a bit more. With only about 430 passengers and about 380 crew, the Seabourn Sojourn is a relatively intimate luxury cruise ship. We concluded shortly after coming on board that this is probably about the biggest ship we’d want to cruise on though: enough size and variety to have everything you need but not so big that you have to compete with other people for anything.

At 6:30 pm we headed off to the Grand Salon on Deck 6 for our first formal evening event of the cruise, the Captain’s official welcome. Captain Hamish Elliot has been sailing since he started at the London Nautical School at the age off 11! At 16 years of age, he joined his first ship, an oil tanker in Singapore. He completed his qualification as a Master Mariner at the University of Plymouth in 1996. He is currently Seabourn’s longest-serving Captain and has been in charge of the Sojourn since the ship entered service in 2010. We enjoyed listening to Hamish and look foreard to getting to know him over the course of the cruise.

In the evening we dined in the main restaurant as guests of the Chief Engineer of the ship. We had a wonderful meal and met some very nice people who were also seated at our table for dinner.

After dinner, we headed to the theatre for the evening’s entertainment, which was a tribute to some of the great singers and songwriters of the last decades.

After a big day, we then headed back to our cabin to retire to bed.

Tomorrow will be our first landing of the cruise, in Ketchikan, Alaska.

On the ship.
On the ship.
On the ship.
On the ship.