One of our readers was on a cruise that stopped in Aruba. They took some shots of the ghost ship. There isn’t any sign of life, the lights are on but there’s nobody home.
At some point Captain Napier made an appearance:
Not sure what he is doing — he looks a little frustrated (no big surprise, imagine being the “captain” of a ship permanently tied up to a dock with no passengers)…
It turns out his appearance was for a video shoot! What a surprise….
They gathered some kids and had them muster up in formation to be addressed by Capt. Mike (the camera crew is behind the stairs).
Wonder who these kids are? A delegation from Delphi or the Clearwater Academy perhaps? Sent for “Officer Training School”… Or is this a new batch of child trafficking victims?
The “OT VIII” ship is a joke. There aren’t enough people getting to the top of the Bridge to support a rowboat, let alone an old cruise ship. There are more kids on board swabbing the decks and dangling over the side painting than passengers there for actaul scientology services.
The ship hasn’t moved for a month, according to one of the people who tracks it and posts over at The Underground Bunker. And before that, it had gone to only taking to sea for a brief run to another port every 3 weeks, after having been on a schedule of doing so every week or so initially after the end of pandemic restrictions.
Didn’t they use to push something like holiday or New Years’ cruises?
Captain Napier…I remember him. Deigning to pause on the stairs to introduce himself to me and chat – me, a lowly public. I got that he was quite impressed with himself and expected me to be too. I wasn’t. He cut an imposing figure but, no, I didn’t like him. Conceited, but worse, a kind of coldness. Something bitter, cynical seeping thru. Something like Jeff Bridges’ character in “The Fabulous Baker Boys”. No way. I was polite though.
Thanks for that info, Aqua! Some years back I was planning on going to the ship to take that Competence and Leadership course that he purportedly teaches himself. I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that I avoided going up against such a creature.
You’re welcome, Alco. You dodged a bullet for sure. Well done 🙂
Maybe the Reckis sisters can baby sit the kids on Freewinds. I mean one of them already is brain washing kids with Delphi. The others career hasn’t really gone anywhere on Reckless Tortuga. Lindsey is an OT VIII. So she should know her way around the ship right? Or maybe one of her employees failed actor Tommy Savas or his new fiancé Angie Simms. Both forever stuck working for Lindsey on Youtube channels no one seems to care about. They don’t have the Depp/Heard trial to squeeze for content this year, after all. Perhaps Suzie Tschupp at the Clearwater Academy? It’s incredibly creepy that they brought children out on the deck as DM runs from human trafficking allegations involving former children victims.
At first glance, I thought that was Davey sitting at the table on the deck underneath where the kids are filming but I think that guys is too tall to be Davey.
Most adult men are too tall to be Davey.
Children, on the other hand……….
It always struck me as a “wrong target”. The idea of having a floating cruise ship dedicated to providing whales and their families with a parody of a cruise while selling them OT VIII. DM made much of the “Sea Org going back to the Sea” etc. But he never expressed much interest to me (well I must admit he never expressed much to me at all LOL) in what I thought was the real purpose of getting the SO back to sea – to produce much tougher and productive SO members. But DM was never interested in any program that did not have some sort of GI involved.
The more interesting money question for me is how much do they pay Aruba for that prime dock space? I wonder if they get a ‘yearly’ discount?
I was around when they were regging $$$ to buy this ship, and the years of it’s unsuccess. After 2000, when I escaped out of Scientology…quite a few years later the person who had been the Freewinds Cramming officer left and called me.
I asked: “Why did you leave?”
She explained “Sooo many OT 8’s were
Sick, committed suicide or dead” that she couldn’t support it any longer.
We are lucky it’s parked, as are any members still “in”, getting $$$ ripped off for OT levels that do not work.
My two cents, having spent 20 years on OT 1-7. 🌹
Miscavige doesn’t like change. He may decide to keep the Freewinds tied up dockside until he dies sometime in the 2050s. They will post pictures from time to time to make it look like they are having wins like never before. Even if the ship has only a few guests per year, the cult members will mindlessly believe anything Miscavige tells them, if he provides a minimal facade of success.
“…until he dies sometime in 2050”. With his history of heavy smoking, heavy hard alcohol consumption, extreme anger and screaming, his internal organs are rotting at a rapid rate. I am surprised every day that I do not hear he has died of a massive cardiac event.
Shame about the old girl, Freewinds. But Davey-boy has found other ways to make money than sell OT8 packages. He has dumped billions of dollars into Australia and used Scientology’s tax free status here to launder his money. Read more
https://www.smh.com.au/national/scientology-shifts-millions-to-safe-haven-australia-and-books-multi-million-dollar-profits-20210325-p57e18.html
https://tonyortega.org/2021/04/01/why-is-scientology-sending-so-much-money-to-places-like-australia-and-the-british-isles/
Ghost ship is accurate. The Freewinds is a microcosm of the scientology microcosm by factor of 47 or so.
Ghost religion it is.
Is this the Jim Rowles that used to live in Pasadena mid-’70’s?
Worked at Caltech. Lived in 5 places in the greater LA area from 1970-1980.
I met you when you shared a house with Jim Showker.
I knew you. You shared a house with Jim Showker that I dated. Still remember the picnic table in the kitchen.
Yep. That was the old 2 story house on Lucerne. Wild and fun/crazy days. Lots happened in the 40+ years. If you want to chat find me jrfool323@yahoo.com
The ship from Hell.
Wow this may be used for deep sea fishing and may become major source of Pure and free from drugs fish 🐟
Just little training required and minor renovation for fish tank.
Imaging Solomon, prawn
crabs 🦀 , oyster , tilapia, haddock etc etc fresh from the sea.
I had LRH come to me in a dream, his message to Scientologist’s was this:
Hello Followers,
Start packing your bags, I will need you all soon on my new planet of Uranus, to help clear. Going well here, just some final body thetans, around Uranus to remove. No sign of Xenu yet. All the citizens are 2’ tall, it’s strange. I miss Television though, the Earth’s radiation just got here, and only getting 80’s wrestling so far. There’s a new wrestler named Hulk Hogan. We should get him. Look into it.
My next planet is Pluto, is that still a planet?
Sincerely,
Your Leader, LRH.
P.S. send my favourite follower Captain David first, he may need a stool to fit in over here though.
P.P.S. the citizens of Uranus have given me a neat nickname, “Twink”. Sounds good, don’t you think?!?… I love it.
Going straight to Pluto???
What does Ron have against Neptune?
Needs to get off his OWs on that plucky little planet pronto!!!
“Silver Twink”, as he likes to be called now, is stuck in Uranus, and can’t move until he is satisfied. Neptune is full of SP’s.
P.S. No discrimination is intended with these comments, except to point out the obvious homophobia of LRH.
Hi Ron!
Ever hear this one?:
Q. “What does toilet paper and Star Trek’s USS Enterprise haven’t common?
A. “They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons.”
(Or was that BTs?)
That’s sad. Their parents should be horse whipped.
Seems like a waste of tax exemption money to me… but what do I know. DM has money to burn apparently. Maybe they can list it as an Air B&B and get “passengers” that way.
And forget ordering a beer and relaxing enjoying the sunsets. No alcohol ship. Just Regges everywhere and course sups.
Crazy, the ship from what I know used to be pretty busy.
I still have 2 grand in a Freewinds account. I gave that money up a long time ago, as well as money at CC, Seattle, and Twin Cities. Lessons learned.
Those kids will probably need to sign their billion year Sea Org contract in order to get off the ship. I wish I was kidding. I did my “officer training” with about 15 other Sea Org members and as we got close to leaving we were told that we had to replace ourselves with other trainees before we could leave. WTF? They were so hard up to have anyone on that ship it was sad. Once you walk on that ship you hand over your passport and the only path off is a guarded gangway, unless you want to pull a “Mission Impossible” escape like Don Jason did. Google his interview with the St. Pete Times.
Hubbard’s greatest victim, Dave.
Re: “There aren’t enough people getting to the top of the Bridge to support a rowboat..”
There aren’t enough people getting to the top of the Bridge to support a… rubber duckie, eh, Mr. Mickiewicz?
The Pandemic was golden opportunity to replace the MV Freewinds. Many cruise lines used the Pandemic to retire and scrap their older ships earlier. A replacement for the MV Freewinds could purchased much more cheaply. An aging rustbucket that can barely move under it’s own power that’s tied up alongside a dock is pathetic.
I suppose the question is whether a new ship would be any different? If the Freewinds can’t afford to actually go anywhere is it better to keep the aging rust bucket tied up decaying than get a new ship and have that tied up not going anywhere and damaging a new vessel by not putting it on the seas like it needs to be? I genuinely have no idea, I know nothing about this stuff, I just wonder if it’s better to keep it sitting there until it literally needs to be scrapped rather than get a new one and start the clock on that one decaying because they won’t/ can’t use it how it needs to be used.
Or why not just deliver OTVIII at an ASHO or an AO? Scrap the ship. And as for all that stuff about delivering OTVIII in a stress free environment, how stress free is a ship that rolls and pitches when a squall comes along?