Celebrity Cruises' Captain Kate shares two key decisions

Captain Kate McCue currently serves on Megastar Beyond, where she lives along with her hairless cat Worm, who has change right into a star in his own right.

Moreover to being the first female captain of a brand new megaship cruise ship, she has enhanced her fame along with her Instagram page that contains a on every day basis Captain's Log video.

The well known videos share snippets of what it truly is like at the helm of a cruise ship carrying more than three,000 passengers and more than 1,four hundred crew. It truly is normally  a 24/7 job, and McCue has made one key decision as a consequence of that never-ending responsibility.

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"For today's Captain's Log, we're answering this query and I go to show it into kind of a two-part question. The first part is, 'can I drink while I'm on board the ship?'" she shared.

There's a key difference between "can" and "does," she explained.

"Technically, I may have a tumbler of wine at dinner, but I make a spread not to," she said. "Accurately, I go completely cold turkey from the moment that I join the ship for my full contract, whether or not it's a typical three-month contract or at some stage within the pandemic.

"It became 318 days on board, completely cold turkey until I get on the plane ride home, where I may almost definitely order a Bloody Mary and speak to it a day."

McCue made clear that her decision reflected the 24/7 nature of her job,

"What I to find is I do not put myself ready to lose. So it truly is one less thing to be anxious about if I'm not drinking while I'm on duty. And I'm always on duty 24-7 when I'm on board the ship," she explained.

Emergencies, she noted, are inclined to happen at inconvenient times.

"If my bridge team's going to wish me, it truly is going to be three o'clock within the morning, not three o'clock within the afternoon. And I do not should think, 'Did I've something to drink last night? Do I've my wits about me?' So I do not even put myself in that position."

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A method to meet Captain Kate on Megastar Beyond

Some ship captains can have a Captain's Table on percent out nights. It truly is a possibility for reasonably a few passengers to have dinner with the captain.

Those passengers will likely be VIPs, random folks, or pretty a lot anyone the captain chooses. Holding a Captain's Table, then again, seriously is basically not a mandatory a component to the job and McCue has reason for nearly never holding one.

"The 2nd a component to it truly is the Captain's Table. I haven't done a Captain's Table within the last 9 years since I became promoted, as opposed to perchance once or twice," she said.

"Because what I discovered is I may per chance take a seat at a table with eight to 10 people for two to reasonably a few hours and tick off three,four hundred other people that did not have dinner with the captain. Or, I may per chance stand in a extremely public place and be reachable to each person for a pair of hours and meet a pair of hundred people. It truly is simply what works for me."

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Some Megastar Cruises ships can have a night where officers line up in a public place to greet the crew. The captain will participate when duties allow. The cruise line also has an event on most sailings where the captain addresses top-tier loyalty program members.

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