Does this come with a JollyRoger - check out this new cruise ship being launched

[Lady Amy of York]

 Check this new  cruise  ship out ?  Better not let my pirate  crew see this . they will be wanting  me  to upgrade  the accomodations  on  my ship.



 

HELSINKI - The world's largest cruise liner began its maiden voyage on Friday, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland and heading to Florida, with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board.

The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas spans 1,200 feet (360 meters) from bow to stern. Its 2,700 cabins can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew.

Commissioned by Royal Caribbean International, the ship cost $1.5 billion and took two and a half years to build at the STX Finland Oy shipyard in Turku, southwestern Finland.


-The liner has four swimming pools, volleyball and basketball courts, and a youth zone with theme parks and nurseries for children. There is also an ice rink that seats 780 spectators and a small-scale golf course.

It features various "neighborhoods" — parks, squares and arenas with special themes. One of them will be a tropical environment, including palm trees and vines among the total 12,000 plants on board. They will be planted after the ship arrives in Fort Lauderdale.

In the stern, a 750-seat outdoor theater — modeled on an ancient Greek amphitheater — doubles as a swimming pool by day and an ocean front theater by night. The pool has a diving tower with spring boards and two 33-feet (10-meter) high dive platforms. An indoor theater seats 1,300 guests.


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Accommodation includes loft cabins measuring 545 square feet (51 square meters) with floor-to-ceiling windows. There are also 1,600 square feet (150 square meter) luxury suites with balconies overlooking the sea or promenades.

One of the "neighborhoods," named Central Park, features a square with boutiques, restaurants and bars, including the "Rising Tide" bar, which the shipping line describes as "the first moving bar at sea."



It moves up and down three decks, allowing customers to get on and off at different level promenades.

Engineers at shipbuilder STX Finland said environmental considerations played an important part when planning the vessel, which dumps no sewage into the sea, reuses its waste water and consumes 25 percent less power than similar, but smaller, cruise liners.

"I would say this is the most environmentally friendly cruise ship to date," said Mikko Ilus, project engineer at the Turku yard. "It is much more efficient than other similar ships."

The liner was due to make its U.S. debut on Nov. 20 at its home port, Port Everglades in Florida and will be officially named on Nov. 30.

It will embark on its first cruise — a four-day trip to the port of Labadee in Haiti — on Dec. 1.

The Oasis of the Seas was due to call in at the English port of Southampton before continuing its voyage across the Atlantic.

STX Finland is building a sister ship — Allure of the Seas — for Royal Caribbean which is due to be launched in 2011.

[Welsh Wench]

I don't know....if I wanted all that I would stay on land!

According to a website--
The Jolly Roger is a three-masted, square-rigged sailing galleon with 110 pieces of working rigging and nine fully functional sails. She is 80 feet overall with a 16-foot beam and weighs 47 gross tons. Constructed of wood with an oak frame, her hull below the waterline is cypress and her topsides are yellow pine and she has teak decks. There is a full-length, steel ballast keel with foam-filled fiberglass sponsons for added stability to ensure calm sailing.

I was privileged to watch the construction of this galleon from start to finish. A good friend of mine was on the construction and he was a master rigger.
In fact, he helped construct the pirate ship at ORF.
I watched them steam the wood so they could bend it. A long arduous process.
It was supervised by two macaws!

I'll pass on the Hilton of Pirate Ships....the former Lady Barbara rules!

http://www.jollyrogercayman.com/web%20pages/ship's%20log.htm



A close-up of the figure head of Lady Barbara.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

I've seen the former Lady Barbara all three times I've been to Georgetown, Grand Cayman, and she grand enough for me!  I regret to say I've never been aboard her.  Next time, I most assuredly shall!

Yes, in full pirate kit.  I had it with me the last two times, anyway...  

[Lady Amy of York]

I agree with you  Welsh Wench.  I'll take an old wooden sailing ship anyday over a modern cruise  ship.My dad loved to sail, and I inherited his passion.  There is nothing like  watching a tall ship  sailing, it's  sails blowing in the wind.   

Now why do I  have  the  song "  Sailing "  suddenly  in  my  mind.

[Welsh Wench]

LOL-for some reason Cousin Dupree (Steely Dan) is stuck in my mind but...never mind that! 

My friend Tony is one of the last of the master riggers. And he used to work on the ship with two macaws on his shoulders.
He also worked on the Bounty.

But the Lady Barbara was something else!
They sailed it up to Long Island.