The Virginia V is worth a visit even in silence, and should be a great place to sing. My favorite labor activity of the last thirty years was a Washington State Ferries strike which occasioned the use of a fleet of Puget Sound tourist boats and the one and only Virginia V as subs for the behemoth car ferries to Bremerton and Bainbridge Island. Two of the few of 14,000 commute trips during which I did not play the mandolin between 1979 and 2007, because it was such a hynotic experience to watch the mechanics of and about the triple-expansion stem engine. The strike could have gone on for a month by me!
Carter