Cruise Ships

[vic mcclymont]

Not a good week for Cruise ships.
Saga Pearl side swiped 4 yachts whilst entering port.
Carnival Horizon took a lump out of one of the piers in New York, when its now clipped a building.
Vic

[happy daze john in oz]

Nothing new there mate, remember the Windsor hitting the quay wall in Las Palmas and doing a bit of damage.

But a number of cruise ships have come to grief, couple in NZ in Napier, small port now few use, as the ship had to be swung around to get out of port.

[John Pruden]

john I still don't trust the modern day cruise ships to they look top heavy and far to much open spaces between decks? jp

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes John they are, but most are built like Shuttlecock, all the heavy stuff at the bottom with large open spaces above.


Most are of a 'flat bottom' style, though not completely so designed for comfort not speed.


Given they stay away from too many rough seas or conditions they should in theory be sound.

But as we all know theory did not help the Titanic.

[Keith Tindell]

The latest i have read on the cruise ships anchored off in the UK, and have wondered what has happened to the crews, if this is true in the report, they are having a tough xmas, kt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55307622

[Lewis McColl]

I was driving alongside Belfast lough a few weeks ago when one of the Viking Cruise ships slipped her moorings and headed down the lough. I think it was the Viking Sky? she was heading for somewhere in the Baltic. Two Viking ships had been alongside Belfast for months but looks as if the other one has gone now as well think she was the Viking Sea.

[Ivan Cloherty]

We have seven cruise ships anchored in our bay, and people say 'isn't it lovely to see them, especially at night when they're all lit up' and I have to put them right the seven ships you enjoy looking at are a sad sight, it means that over 8000 seamen are currently unemployed, others on board are stranded and some haven't seen their families thousands of miles away for up to 15 months, so think of it this way, every light you enjoy looking at during the night as an unemployed seamen, will you still enjoy looking at them, and we are just one small bay, there are hundreds of bays like ours with up to 400,000 unemployed seamen as a result. Some you get thanks from, others you just get a blank stare.

[Lewis McColl]

We have seven cruise ships anchored in our bay, and people say 'isn't it lovely to see them, especially at night when they're all lit up' and I have to put them right the seven ships you enjoy looking at are a sad sight, it means that over 8000 seamen are currently unemployed, others on board are stranded and some haven't seen their families thousands of miles away for up to 15 months, so think of it this way, every light you enjoy looking at during the night as an unemployed seamen, will you still enjoy looking at them, and we are just one small bay, there are hundreds of bays like ours with up to 400,000 unemployed seamen as a result. Some you get thanks from, others you just get a blank stare.

Well said, I have had a few words with people when I mentioned during the NHS frontline workers clapping about sparing, a thought for Seafarers . One guy said why? what do they do? He was surprised when I mentioned about how a lot of PPE the NHS needed came by ship. Joe public really is ignorant about how the world goes round.

[happy daze john in oz]

Read a few articles from a number of cruise companies.
Major problem is that some countries will still not allow any flights in.
Indonesia said it will not allow any crew back until a Vaccine is available.

All the ships still require a basic crew to keep the ships in operable manner.

Most companies will recommence sailing as soon as a Vaccine is available to a few more countries.

[John Arton]

Looking at this monolith makes me more sure that cruising is not for me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...as-vessel.html
Rgds
J.A.