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- Author: Duncan Ralston
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THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE CERES
BON VOYAGE
WITH A JAUNTY blast of its airhorn, the superyacht Ceres, owned by
jet-setting financier-philanthropist Emory Jackman, pulled away from
the docks at Miami’s Island Gardens Marina, heading southeast to Little
Pearl in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
As the airhorn blasted, activities onboard were already well underway.
On the main deck, the waitstaff served champagne mimosas and crudités to
hungry passengers, from supermodels to CEOs. In the galley, kitchen staff
sweated and shouted, chopped and flambéed, prepping lunch for more than
a hundred guests and crew. In the cramped bathroom in his cabin on the
lowest deck, young freelance journalist Sven Olsen ran the faucet while
speaking hurriedly to his girlfriend on a burner phone, worried his room
might be tapped.
In another cabin, on the upper decks where the wealthiest
guests stayed, celebrated film mogul Ernie Wallis ejaculated into the oral
cavity of his companion, a woman much younger than his current wife, but
still not quite as young as he preferred. Passengers gossiped and fawned and
schmoozed wherever they found one another, many of them famous or
fame-adjacent, most of them wealthy or wealth-adjacent. It was a who’s
who of the best and brightest, as well as the most vile and dimwitted. To be
seen on the Ceres, especially in the company of one of their hosts, was to be
recognized as a Very Important Person by those whose opinions mattered
most.
On the bridge, leading a crew manifest of twelve competent seamen and
Emory Jackman’s idiot nephew, Captain Philips—no relation—was hard at
work. Though he’d done this trip and back countless times, the path from
Miami to Little Pearl was considered “thorny.” The island was due
southeast on the rhumb line route, which looked simple on a map yet in
reality countless obstacles lay in their path. The Bahamas, Turks and
Caicos, several cays and archipelagos had to be circumnavigated, and—
weather depending—the voyage could get extremely hairy.
He would’ve
preferred to disembark from further up the coast, the Hamptons, even a port
in Connecticut, but Emory demanded that his guests pack light. Northern
ports during the colder months would require them to wear more layers:
heavier jackets, boots, gloves, and to pack more outfits than they might
already carry, which for many was far too much. Guests on the Ceres were
limited to two pieces of luggage each plus a small carry-on, in order to
leave more room in storage for the regular deliveries required on Little
Pearl Island: crates of non-perishable and perishable food items, toiletries,
tools and materials for upkeep and maintenance, medical and cleaning
supplies, etcetera. etcetera.
DOWN IN THE CARGO HOLD, porters Raymond Digby and Gabe
Zimmer marveled again at the heavy crates and luggage they’d loaded this
morning. It was a larger shipment than usual, with at least a dozen more
wooden crates than the last voyage. Heavier than normal, too, like they
were filled with gold bricks—which considering the passengers wouldn’t have surprised Digby, to be fair. He had a good twenty years on Gabe, agewise, and his back still ached, despite the brace. This was Gabe’s first year
working for Mr. Jackman. The kid was barely twenty.
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