Comments on: How Often Can I Get Off The Ship? http://www.musicianwages.com/cruise-ship-musician/how-often-can-i-get-off-the-ship/ The Community for Working Musicians Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David J. Hahn http://www.musicianwages.com/cruise-ship-musician/how-often-can-i-get-off-the-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-33 David J. Hahn Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:50:09 +0000 http://www.musicianwages.com/?p=95#comment-33 Hey Ryan - I'd forgotten about immigration. Sometimes that takes forever. That's usually on embarkation day, no? This list is really helpful - thanks man! Hey Ryan – I’d forgotten about immigration. Sometimes that takes forever. That’s usually on embarkation day, no?

This list is really helpful – thanks man!

]]> By: Ryan http://www.musicianwages.com/cruise-ship-musician/how-often-can-i-get-off-the-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Ryan Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:16:43 +0000 http://www.musicianwages.com/?p=95#comment-24 On our ship - ports can sometimes be easy to get into and sometimes not at all. Normally - you can get off just fine wherever you are. Here are a few things that keep you from getting out: 1) Scheduled crew drills. On our ship they often happen about 10:30am. We usually dock somewhere between 7-8am, and leave around 3pm. So you get a few hours in port, but not all day. 2) Immigration - if you are constantly going in/out of a US port, the first one you come back into the US on will have an immigration time for new/leaving crew. I've seen it be over anywhere from 11am to 2pm. There has been 1 day I've only gotten 1 hour in port because immigration took so long - and they don't let any crew out until all have passed through it 3) Rehearsal/Gig - sometimes you will be scheduled to play early. usually this isn't the case - but if you work in one of the lounge bands/etc you will probably have to play an afternoon gig around 4 or 5. It can cut an hour or two off your port time. 4) Tenders/emergency weather/etc - we had one day where we had to do tenders (sitting in the harbor and having boats run people to shore) and the crew was not allowed off the ship. It's happened once - almost twice. It can usually depend on whether. 5) Port Manning - some ships require a certain % of each crew area to remain aboard for safety reasons. You may be on this list and have to stay on the ship. For us, it happens only when we go overnight somewhere - and you have to be back on board by 8pm. The list is usually on a rotational basis. Hope this helps! On our ship – ports can sometimes be easy to get into and sometimes not at all. Normally – you can get off just fine wherever you are. Here are a few things that keep you from getting out:

1) Scheduled crew drills. On our ship they often happen about 10:30am. We usually dock somewhere between 7-8am, and leave around 3pm. So you get a few hours in port, but not all day.

2) Immigration – if you are constantly going in/out of a US port, the first one you come back into the US on will have an immigration time for new/leaving crew. I’ve seen it be over anywhere from 11am to 2pm. There has been 1 day I’ve only gotten 1 hour in port because immigration took so long – and they don’t let any crew out until all have passed through it

3) Rehearsal/Gig – sometimes you will be scheduled to play early. usually this isn’t the case – but if you work in one of the lounge bands/etc you will probably have to play an afternoon gig around 4 or 5. It can cut an hour or two off your port time.

4) Tenders/emergency weather/etc – we had one day where we had to do tenders (sitting in the harbor and having boats run people to shore) and the crew was not allowed off the ship. It’s happened once – almost twice. It can usually depend on whether.

5) Port Manning – some ships require a certain % of each crew area to remain aboard for safety reasons. You may be on this list and have to stay on the ship. For us, it happens only when we go overnight somewhere – and you have to be back on board by 8pm. The list is usually on a rotational basis.

Hope this helps!

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