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Post by mrdot on Aug 14, 2010 19:52:48 GMT -8
my brother (wettcoast) has heard the call but this array of crusers is a cut above the sri lankan queen! mr.dot.
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 14, 2010 21:37:37 GMT -8
has any one been down to shoot the new shree lankan cruise boat? mr.dot. If the MV Sun Sea is still in Victoria on September 3 or 4th, then i'll be able to get pics, but I'm sure that somebody is closer. Hullnumbers or Nick, maybe? |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 15, 2010 8:15:03 GMT -8
Over the past few days my wife and I traveled south through south-east Alaska aboard the AMHS vessels Malaspina & Matanuska. During this journey we had layovers in Juneau & Ketchikan, as well as a night in Skagway prior to starting the trip. In all three communities we saw cruise ships, two or three at a time. We saw ships from most of the major 'players' in the Alaskan cruising business. Today I have four photos of Princess ships that we saw, presented in chonological order. In the coming days I will put up photos of other cruise liners on this thread, and AMHS vessels on the appropriate thread.  Coral Princess, Skagway, AK - 11 Aug 2010  Royal Princess, Skagway, AK - 12 Aug 2010  Sapphire Princess, Skagway, AK - 12 Aug 2010  Island Princess, Juneau, AK - 12 Aug 2010 All photos by JST© |
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Post by mrdot on Aug 15, 2010 9:25:46 GMT -8
That pic. that my brother wettcoast has posted of Royal Princess is a particularly good one and sure is light years more luxurious than the sri lankan queen at Esquimalt. I guess the rusty old Queen of Burnaby is also in that gulf of comparison as well! Mr.DOT.
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 15, 2010 9:49:19 GMT -8
Coral Princess, Skagway, AK - 11 Aug 2010 Sapphire Princess, Skagway, AK - 12 Aug 2010 Island Princess, Juneau, AK - 12 Aug 2010 All photos by JST© I may be mistaken, but: Are those jet engines on the side of the funnels of the cruise ships???  |
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Post by Nick on Aug 15, 2010 10:20:59 GMT -8
Kinda. They're gas turbines (no not gasoline...) which are used for extra electricity generation. They use the same operating principle as a jet engine, but instead of releasing a jet of high velocity gasses to produce propulsion, the gasses turn a turbine blade, creating rotary motion just like a diesel engine. Gas turbines typically are less efficient than a diesel, but are much, much lighter.
The Halifax class frigates use gas turbines as their high-speed propulsion system, and a diesel for cruise. A full load of fuel works out to give them about 30 days on cruise, or 2 days running flat out.
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 15, 2010 10:52:18 GMT -8
Interesting. Thanks, Nick!  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 15, 2010 11:47:39 GMT -8
Island Princess, Juneau, AK - 12 Aug 2010 All photos by JST© Wow, to think that this huge ship once operated out of Kelsey Bay and Beaver Cove.... |
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Post by FerryDude2012 on Aug 15, 2010 12:04:21 GMT -8
Island Princess, Juneau, AK - 12 Aug 2010 All photos by JST© Wow, to think that this huge ship once operated out of Kelsey Bay and Beaver Cove.... And to think that she served Port McNeill, Port Alice, Alert Bay and Sointula ;D |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 15, 2010 14:02:42 GMT -8
The Island Princess pictured above is the second (or maybe third) Princess liner to have that name. As we all know the BC ferry known today as the North Island Princess was originally called simply the Island Princess. That changed when we simultaneously had two vessels with the same name plying our coast. Princess Cruises convinced BC Ferries to rename their vessel. The story is told in the Bannerman book The Ships of British Columbia. In the mean time here are some more Skagway cruise ship views, this time of NCL vessels...  Norwegian Star departing Skagway, AK - 11 Aug 2010  Norwegian Pearl tied up @ Skagway, AK - 11 Aug 2010 (above & below)  All photos by JST © |
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Post by mrdot on Aug 15, 2010 14:44:30 GMT -8
Here is some history for my brother (wettcoast) my wife and I were at the christening of the present Island Princess which was rite here in Vancouver, and we were on the innaugral cruise, in the cabin next to us was the tv love boat captain gaven mcloed, on the other side was that big heavy rick thorpe representing the lib. govt. and above us was heddi fry reps. the fed. libs. that was quite the mini trip, this was the second Island Princess. when P&O were christening the first Island Princess, bc ferries had to relinquish the Island Princess for the British registry, so our dear old island princess was renamed North Island Princess. I think p&o presented a builders model to the maritime museum for this gesture. Thats a little history lesson for my brother and the rest of the forum. A day after completing this mini cruise my wife and I and the rest of my family steped on Royal Carribean's Vision of the Seas for a 7 nite alaska cruise. mr.dot.
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Post by mrdot on Aug 15, 2010 15:43:18 GMT -8
dear fugal, as per our little Island Princess, there is quite a spread on the catamrization of this onetime diminuative vessel that was magically transformed, some of the drawings for this operation were mine. My brother has some graphic discriptions and photos of this proceedure, which you may be able to scan? mr.dot.
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 16, 2010 19:07:53 GMT -8
Tonight I have more photos of cruise vessels in Alaska, this time ships from HAL...  Statendam @ Skagway, AK - 12 Aug 2010 (above & below)   Ryndam doing a 180 o pivot prior to departure from Juneau, AK - 12 Aug 2010 All photos by JST © |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 22, 2010 20:18:40 GMT -8
A Celebrity ship northbound in Georgia Strait, between Gibsons & Sechelt. - photo taken from Nanaimo's Pipers Lagoon park, Sunday evening 8/22/2010.  |
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Post by FerryDude2012 on Aug 22, 2010 20:29:13 GMT -8
A Celebrity ship northbound in Georgia Strait, between Gibsons & Sechelt. - photo taken from Nanaimo's Pipers Lagoon park, Sunday evening 8/22/2010.  That would be the Celebrity Mercury. Did you happen to catch the Statendam, right behind the Mercury today? |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 22, 2010 20:59:48 GMT -8
That would be the Celebrity Mercury. Did you happen to catch the Statendam, right behind the Mercury today? Yes. The HAL Statendam was originally in front of Mercury, but was overtaken off of Sechelt. - thanks for sorting out the names for me. My photos of the Statendam were too fuzzy. |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 25, 2010 21:33:23 GMT -8
Here are a few more photos of cruise ships that I saw while in south east Alaska about two weeks ago.  Seven Seas Navigator underway north from Ketchikan - 13 Aug 2010 (photos above & below)   Celebrity Mercury @ Ketchikan - 13 Aug 2010 (photos above & below)  all photos by JST ©All these photos are from my Flickr cruise ship set where you can see more photos and at higher resolutions. |
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Post by Retrovision on Aug 30, 2010 23:07:01 GMT -8
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Post by Kahloke on Sept 15, 2010 12:34:43 GMT -8
One of the big Princess ships slipping past Keystone on Sep 4  Again, in Admiralty Inlet as seen from Steilacoom II  Holland America's Rotterdam sailing past Whidbey Island   |
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Post by Mirrlees on Sept 15, 2010 13:33:35 GMT -8
That first ship is the UGLY Saphire Princess.
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Post by mrdot on Sept 15, 2010 15:00:59 GMT -8
is there any of the new generation cruise ships, that are not incredibly ugly, the princess ones are not pritty, but the norwegian Epic, and celebrity Equinox class are so ugly that they must have been christened by a wicked witch! they have such piled up superstuctures that look like livestock carriers with their piled up verandas and absolutly no sheer lines. They all look like huge boxboats, and most of the graceful looking ones are headed for the Allung beaches. One of the more graceful ones is deep in Wright Sound! mr.dot.
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 15, 2010 15:01:29 GMT -8
That first ship is the UGLY Saphire Princess. I've gotten to like cruise ships more over the past year, and I think this is one of the better looking ones, for it's size. |
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Post by mrdot on Sept 15, 2010 19:45:47 GMT -8
in the arts community it is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and who am I to say that a man who makes a million $ more than my retirement stipend, and thinks the Norex is the most beautiful vessel to come out of the builders yard, is not correct. I must humble myself, and stand corrected, in this HST world of political correctness! mr.dot.
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 16, 2010 18:57:00 GMT -8
in the arts community it is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and who am I to say that a man who makes a million $ more than my retirement stipend, and thinks the Norex is the most beautiful vessel to come out of the builders yard, is not correct. I must humble myself, and stand corrected, in this HST world of political correctness! mr.dot. You have to be careful about comments like that MrDOT. Some individuals around this board get quite militant if you say the wrong thing about cruise ships. They are shaped the way they are these days because they have to be as wide and large as possible in order to be the effective funnels of money that they are intended to be ;D. |
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Post by mrdot on Sept 16, 2010 19:27:31 GMT -8
yes, I hear you loud and clear, the cruise companies, and shipping lines in general are in the business to make revenue, and the ecomomy of scale, and also the large veranda blocks, make these ships profitable. The old vessels with the bueaty of lines and grace are not profitable and do not meet safety codes and so they are off to India, for example one of the last ships we cruised on, now Mona Lisa, is off to Alung and so are Sagafjord etc, etc. I pine for the old line shiping but realizse the world is changing and so is shipping. And so am I as I age, sometimes not so gracefully! mr.dot.
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