Ships off Weymouth

All those ships appear to have one thing in common, visible smoke from the funnels ?.
Quite a sight though .:)
 
Queen Victoria, Queen Mary II, Arcadia, Aurora and Azura are currently at anchor - Britannia, Ventura and Oceana are toodling about now out in the Channel.
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Oceana is looking a bit rust streaked at the stern.

Re the smoke, cruise ships do have to comply with fairly strict IMO rules re emissions - they probably all now have scrubbers to remove the banned stuff.

Just realised that this is my 5,000th post! :)
 
Bajansailor said:
Oceana is looking a bit rust streaked at the stern.
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The third pic down of the ship with the rusty stern is Arcadia, and not as I thought Oceana. It was too far off when I took the pic, and the heat shimmer made the name on the stern unreadable...... so I looked at the Dorset Echo website and by a process of elimination from their report came up with a name. Silly me! :oops:
 
There is a type of white paint aimed at the cruise ship market which is very good at hiding rust streaks.

Over 12 pax - annual dry docking.
Over 100 pax - carry a doctor.

Up to about 40 odd years ago, passenger ships were designed with the public rooms near the top and the majority of cabins lower down. This makes a ship look much better, but at the price of lots of inside cabins. The cruise ship people realised that they can sell a cabin with a sea view for a better price per day, especially if the cabin has a private balcony, and that people don’t look out of the windows when eating or watching a show. So they put the cabins above the public rooms.

Soon afterwards people realised that an ideal itinerary involves being in port during the day and making passages at night. So new ships were designed to be diesel electric - airconditioning on during the day, propulsion at night.

And here we are.
 
Presumably after a couple of weeks of isolation if it's all gone well they don't need to isolate from each other and can use the pool, gym bar etc..
 
I expect, somewhere , there are probably 20 oil tankers anchored for every cruise ship .

If you are employed and stuck in a cruise ship, you can at least swim in the pool and
learn how to ice skate.
 
Usually Carrick Roads fill up quickly when there’s a downturn but given that all the tankers are full of crude at the moment I can’t see the Falmouth Harbour Commissioners wanting to entertain that idea.
 
The QM2 carries her boats two decks higher than the others. This involves a different davit system and boarding arrangements, and is because she is designed to be able to operate as a Transatlantic liner, so she has the ability to maintain a much higher speed (30 knots!) through worse weather.

Her designer, Stephen Payne, was a small boy when the Queen Elizabeth caught fire in Hong Kong. The BBC “Blue Peter” programme covered this and said that nothing like her would be seen again. The young Payne wrote to the BBC to say that they were wrong, there would be a similar ship, and he would design her.
 
how strange Kukri, the BBC getting something wrong!

I believe several tankers are anchored of Rotterdam, well the last time I looked at shipfinder.com they were.
 
Kukri said:
The QM2 carries her boats two decks higher than the others. This involves a different davit system and boarding arrangements, and is because she is designed to be able to operate as a Transatlantic liner, so she has the ability to maintain a much higher speed (30 knots!) through worse weather.

Her designer, Stephen Payne, was a small boy when the Queen Elizabeth caught fire in Hong Kong. The BBC “Blue Peter” programme covered this and said that nothing like her would be seen again. The young Payne wrote to the BBC to say that they were wrong, there would be a similar ship, and he would design her.
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All of that probably explains why she's more pleasing on the eye than the others...... (y)
 
Kukri said:
There is a type of white paint aimed at the cruise ship market which is very good at rust stains
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Interfine. It was designed originally for the Canberra. Neither hides rust nor prevents it but converts the staining into a colourless and soluble material that is washed off by water.
I remember they once had a complaint from passengers that it was snowing mid voyage and in sunshine. It was actually the flakes of Interfine being blown off after so many coats had been applied at sea to keep her looking good
 
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