I realize I've been graduated for 12 years (and things have changed) but if it's the tour boat company I'm thinking of (i.e., Sigma Nu had a party on them when I was in school) it's a typical big tour boat that goes around Lk WA and thru the Lock's and it would be real hard to monitor the alcohol. When we went everyone piled on a bus (drunk) and traveled down there, drank on the boat (smuggled alcohol if I'm remembering correctly) and partied.

Personally, the ship's owner's comment sounds like he wanted people to know Tuiasosopo was already drunk when he got to the bar (i.e., deflect blame from the bar - probably a friend)

Cele, I'm guessing there was no alcohol provided on the boat unless you smuggled it on yourself. And these boats are the perfect place for some sort of date party.

It's funny though.....this is the only place I've heard anyone discussing Rick today. Even my dad (a UW alum) is glad he might be gone.

We have a similar cruise, with a bus ride an hour plus, then two hours on the boat, and there is a bar for 21 and over, then the bus ride back. In Seattle, they have a similar one, and I'm sure that there's a bar on the boat for 21 and over. I know tons of poeple that drink before hand, and on the boat.