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Post by Balfour on Jan 14, 2005 19:50:18 GMT -8
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Post by Ian on Jan 14, 2005 20:53:56 GMT -8
She is handled like a cruise ship. I saw on discovery, they docked her in a berth like a bc ferry terminal in extreme wind.
Shes my kind of ship. Aside from royal caribbeans Freedom of the seas and Serenade of the seas.
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Post by NMcKay on Jan 14, 2005 20:54:35 GMT -8
shes got 3 Bow thrusters.
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Post by Ian on Jan 14, 2005 21:00:50 GMT -8
Thats as many as Serenade of the Seas. Serenade of the Seas has tree bow thrusters on each side and two azipods (z-drive) on the stern.
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Post by NMcKay on Jan 14, 2005 21:42:22 GMT -8
i think you mean 3 in total. cause its hard to have 3 on each side... considering usually they run through the ship.
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Post by Ian on Jan 14, 2005 23:48:18 GMT -8
Nop, the Serenade of the Seas has three bow thrusters on each side. Each thruster is 3000hp approx. and with six that equals 18000hp in just the bow thrusters. The ulysses probably also has three on each side. Voyager of the Seas and the Queen Mary II have four on each side.
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Post by NMcKay on Jan 15, 2005 8:29:02 GMT -8
Check your facts man. the QM2 has 3 bow thrusters, and 2 180 Rotatable Azepods, and 2 fixed azepods.
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Post by NMcKay on Jan 15, 2005 8:33:15 GMT -8
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Post by Ian on Jan 15, 2005 12:26:05 GMT -8
I now she has four pods, 2 fixed and 2 azimuthing but she does have 3-4 bow thruster on each side. She is 151000 gross tons. She has 3 on each side.
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Post by noleaksyet on Jan 16, 2005 13:34:16 GMT -8
OKOKOK,
Yes it may APPEAR that she has 3 Bow Thrusters on each side BUT...... what in reality she has are 3 Tunnels for 3 bow thrusters and with a tunnel you have a inlet and outlet. The right angle drive unit hangs a controllable pitch propellor on the centerline of the ship. The props pitch is altered to allow it to push water through the tunnels in either direction depending on the direction wished to travel. TheQueen OF Nanaimo has 3 tunnels but only 2 bow props for the reason to allow the displaced water to flow through the middle tunnel. This ship you speak of may have 3 bow thrusters but on the centerline not each side
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