"Significant Digits" Oct. 13, 2023

[TeamDoubleTow]

We are firmly on the ship...

[Collegetowngirl]

On the ship. Not even a rabbit hole to look down. However the company here is delightful!

[KayW]

Guided to shore with a much-appreciated course correction.

[drabble]

Ok! Made it ashore, thank you for the nudge(s)

[Harbo]

Help me! I have the most elegant 11 letter solution which would be correct if we were looking for 11 letters of gibberish. I am too invested in this rabbit hole to go back!

[Kas]

Sand! Omigosh…SAND!!!

[Berto]

Spotted the beach but got caught up in the tide.
Finally felt sand between the toes.

[MaineMarge]

Ashore.
I figured out the way to go, but it took a nudge and @Bob cruise director’s superior brain to get us here through some difficult terrain.

As for 1A- “plants by the water?”
Easy-peasy

Not only BY, but IN the water.
Red lilies and knautia, and water lilies in our garden pond in July

[LadyBird]

Well, Toto, we aren't in Chicago ANymore--and we aren't at our fiNAl destination of the beach, either. We are SHUt in a variety of rabbit holes. And we are in Lisbon! We've been busy suMMIting the many hills to see a variety of great things--leaviNG little time for solving. I'll have a BIt of time on the train to Porto. So perhaps I'll find that 11-letter woRD.

[LesY]

Solved and ashore. I figured out the key thing but then botched what to do with it until the Coast Guard arrived.

[wescovington]

The cruise company is telling me that I need to solve the puzzle or start paying extra for the buffet and drinks.

[Commodore]

Isaac, we'll be staying for dinner.

[SingleMalt]

Ashore! After getting 90% of the way there almost instantly I made a bone crushingly stupid error and spent the rest of the weekend trying to recover.

I think I need a stiff Pepto Bismol

[CopperRiver]

Back in town from San Francisco and getting a late start. Grid done. Looking and thinking. Lots of possibilities from title and clues.

[JRS51]

I’m firmly strapped in here in the bar, haven’t given up but the odds aren’t looking too good. My son will be here this afternoon, perhaps he will help with a new set of eyes.

[DavyGravy]

Ashore with nudges. I’m sorry to have missed the Friday zoom - but I was attending to my brand newly born granddaughter! What a gift from Heaven!

[mheberlingx100]

Ashore.
I figured out the way to go, but it took a nudge and @Bob cruise director’s superior brain to get us here through some difficult terrain.

As for 1A- “plants by the water?”
Easy-peasy
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Not only BY, but IN the water.
Red lilies and knautia, and water lilies in our garden pond in July

Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco, June 2023.

[Bonnibel]

Hopelessly lost as well. I'll be staying the night on the boat I'm sure.

Wondering when or if I will ever get my groove back?

[Joe Ross]

I worked with a co-solver on this with no joy. Later, received hints that sounded like Miss Othmar.

Went back to one of over a dozen attempts at solving & reworked it (with some frustration), solving ultimately.

Was later shown the full Patrick Berryness of this meta. Frustration removed. Faith in Patrick unyielding.

[wescovington]

Thanks to many of you who nudged me I finally made it ashore.