Clouds and the Eclipse

17 ships ended up in the path. We were tested six times. The odds of successfully sitting, and they gambled. They went way further north than anyone else where the sun would barely have come above the horizon when totality hit on the eclipse. And so they were pushing their luck, but it paid off absolutely. Whereas the rest, and we knew going out that at that time of year, there's like an 80 or something, 90% chance of clouds. So it was a long shot in several ways. But all of that said, and eclipse is the one thing where there's a consolation prize if it's cloudy. If it's cloudy, you get nothing. A lot of