Spot the boat (with a twist)

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MapisM

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Today while driving around - and don't ask where, 'cause that would spoil the STB - I had the opportunity to see some pretty big stuff.
Not too difficult to guess I suppose, for anyone with some knowledge of what's going on in cruise ship industry.
But here goes, for those interested in a virtual mars bar.
Hint: the draught marks are scaled between 7 and 9 meters... :eek:
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No idea

Huge machine. 4 bowthrusters - Haydn is not gonna be happy about that!

These close ups remind you why yacht builders go to the trouble of fairing the plates and welds. Not economic on a thing this size
 
No mars bar so far, I'm afraid. Ok, I'll throw in another BIG hint. I even left the first and the last letters of the name...

As an aside, I never saw one of these things on the hard before. And when swmbo asked me why they don't capsize in any sort of decent sea/wind, I couldn't give her any easily understandable explanation.
9m or so draft can seem a lot, but is ridiculously small, when seen together with the whole hull and superstructure.
The pic doesn't even do justice to that, but suffice to say that there are FOUR other decks ABOVE the command bridge...!
Chapeau to the naval architects behind these monsters.

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The 130,000 ton Carnival Breeze at Fincantieri,Trieste due for completion next month?

Big,but 140,000 tons plus already underway elsewhere.
 
MapisM said:
No mars bar so far, I'm afraid. Ok, I'll throw in another BIG hint. I even left the first and the last letters of the name...

As an aside, I never saw one of these things on the hard before. And when swmbo asked me why they don't capsize in any sort of decent sea/wind, I couldn't give her any easily understandable explanation.
9m or so draft can seem a lot, but is ridiculously small, when seen together with the whole hull and superstructure.
The pic doesn't even do justice to that, but suffice to say that there are FOUR other decks ABOVE the command bridge...!
Chapeau to the naval architects behind these monsters.

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OK. Not the Carnival Breeze then. Were you in Marseille looking at the 140,00 ton MSC Divina?
 
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stillwaters said:
Were you in Marseille looking at the 140,00 ton MSC Divina?
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Yup, that's the one!
Not in Marseille, though. She's currently being completed at STX shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.
I read somewhere that the official christening will be in Marseille, but she still has some miles to go before reaching the Med.
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I believe her sister ship the MSC Preziosa,another 140,000 tonner for Crociere,is following about 12 months behind at the same yard,did you see that as well?
Even bigger ones due in the next year or two from German yards etc.
 
stillwaters said:
I believe her sister ship the MSC Preziosa,another 140,000 tonner for Crociere,is following about 12 months behind at the same yard,did you see that as well?
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Yes I did, but at some distance.
Only the Divina dock was accessible, I guess just because it has to be: there's a road which runs just in front of the dry dock...
 
Whilst in admiration of the engineering on these ships, it would scare the hell out of me being cooped up with so many people. Still lots must like it for them to keep building bigger!
 
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