One of the last cruise ships of the season scheduled to be in port in Haines, instead left early Wednesday morning after trying and failing to tie up to the cruise ship dock around 7 a.m. 

There was a gale warning in effect for the northern Lynn Canal through about 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. Those conditions caused crew on the 1,250-passenger Riviera to also decide that it was too windy and there were too many…

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