Four months to Christmas but it was still a summer's morning, on a Bank Holiday weekend, as the super-yacht Big Eagle came into Guernsey to refuel along with two liners. The Discovery came from Honfleur on a British Isles cruise originating in Newcastle, and the Seabourn Sojourn from Southampton on the start of her cruise. Castle Cornet provides the foreground and is one of the frequent places that guests come to, to photograph their liners.
The Seabourn Sojourn was launched in 2010 and is the second of a trio of luxury boutique ships built for Seabourn. With a capacity for 450 guests and the "largest luxe spa" at sea, she spent her short stay on the closer anchorage to St Peter Port before departing for Cobh. With the short stay, tenders shuttled back and forth frequently and a power boat race in the morning also provided entertainment.
The Discovery by comparison was on the more easterly anchorage with a longer tender ride . Even the design of the tenders show the ship's age with the Discovery ones looking more traditional in appearance. The Discovery went into service in 1972 and starred in a supporting role to her sister ship in the TV Sitcom "Love Boat", which is credited with prevoking more interest in cruising. Her first cruise from Great Britain in 2013 left from Avonmouth, the first liner to do so in over 20 years.
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