Setting sail for the start of the Season
Pictures by Chris Jones & Dick Clague
Unfortunately work on the winter refit overran slightly and Balmoral missed her first day on service on the Bristol Channel on 25 May 2005. In the event, bad weather would have prevented the sailing in any case.
Here the vessel calls at Penarth Pier on 26 May 2005, standing in for the Waverley, stormbound at Fishguard (Chris Jones).