SEATTLE — Seattle-based Windstar Cruises is out to prove something.
One of the latest additions to the company's fleet, the 212-passenger Star Legend, has become the largest ship to transit Ballard's Chittenden Locks.
It's all to demonstrate that luxury cruising isn't limited to deep water mega-ships.
Even though Windstar is based in Seattle, it's been 27 years since one of their vessels came to town. So the company is giving some of its employees a chance to get their sea legs on this historic one-day outing.
None of the Windstar ships holds more than 310 passengers. That's small for a cruise ship, but a tight squeeze for the Ballard Locks, with less than six feet of clearance on either side.
This very big little ship made the passage with inches to spare and headed to Lake Union to complete its voyage of adventure.
