Captain Kate McCue, the primary American girl to take the helm of a cruise ship, has left Superstar Cruises.
The famed captain — who is called a lot for her seafaring abilities as she is for her love of Louboutin sneakers and taking web trolls to job — made the announcement in an Instagram publish on Monday.
“You is likely to be questioning why am I leaving,” McCue stated within the publish’s caption. “Merely put, life has an unimaginable means of reminding us what’s essential and altering up priorities. I’ve not too long ago had some large life adjustments, and this simply occurs to be a kind of.”
The information comes lower than two months after the demise of McCue’s beloved hairless elf sphynx cat, Bug Bare, whose oceangoing exploits with McCue made the feline Instagram-famous.
Along with her unflappable confidence, McCue — who has her personal Instagram following to the tune of 1 million folks — has been a pure advocate for ladies within the cruise business.
In 2020, simply earlier than the business shuttered for 18 months because of COVID-19, she hosted an Worldwide Ladies’s Day cruise on Superstar Edge. Throughout that crusing, each single member of the bridge crew — all the ship’s officers — was a lady. And, fittingly, McCue had some precious perception about why it is an honor that ships are known as “she.”
Additionally in 2020, through the shutdown, she was form sufficient to chat with Summer time Hull, TPG’s senior director of content material, about all issues cruise.
“Captain Kate evokes so many with the eagerness she places into every little thing she touches,” Laura Hodges Bethge, president of Superstar Cruises, stated in a press release. “I do know her love for the ocean and those that share in its magic won’t ever change. And, so it’s with gratitude and admiration that, on behalf of all of us at Superstar Cruises, we want her truthful winds, following seas, and the perfect at all times.”
Though McCue hasn’t but revealed what’s subsequent, she has alluded to new seasons of “The Captain’s Log,” a sequence of social media reels by which she shared what life is like at sea.
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However McCue — who has sailed on 11 ships throughout Royal Caribbean Group’s manufacturers over the previous 22 years — assures her followers that her crusing days aren’t over.
“I’ve obtained an excessive amount of salt in my veins to depart the ocean behind,” she stated.
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