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![[*]](./images/xpsilver/default_icon.gif) posted on 11-3-2009 at 05:15 PM |
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World's Largest Cruise Ship
Thought some of you boaters would like to see whats new in cruise ships. This is "Oasis of the Seas" and is 5 times bigger than the Titanic. Holds
6,300 passengers and 2,000 crew members.
Over 20 stories tall she had to clear a bridge in Denmark to get out of her home port and only cleared it by 2 ft. Whoa!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091101/ap_on_re_eu/eu_world_s_largest_cruise_ship
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 05:19 PM |
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Ok. So I am getting to be an old foagie, but EVEN IF IT WERE FREE, I would still rather be on a houseboat on Lake Cumberland with my friends for a
long weekend.
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 05:50 PM |
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Think of the wake that bad boy could make going up LC. 
Talking about your bee itching on LC.com the next day.
I'm partying with JabezBoy too! Unfortunately, he is expecting twins in the future. Something tells me his party time is going to take a sharp drop.
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 06:11 PM |
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So are they keeping that at state dock or jamestown?
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 07:30 PM |
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No Thanks..............
Not even if it were free............
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 08:05 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lock5
No Thanks..............
Not even if it were free............ |
You did one with over 2000 males aboard! LOL
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 08:19 PM |
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If it were on Cumberland, the lake would be back to normal pool. I hear it holds over six thousand guests. I bet their lifeboat drills are pure . I
would hate to be one of the last few people to disembark because if it was sinking I would be in heaven or about five hours before my turn came in
the lifeboat. Just what day does each neighborhood get to disembark when the boat reaches home port? Anyhow, I too like my lil' boat and
LakeCumberland.Com, and my wife and kids.....and some money so that we can go coving.
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 08:27 PM |
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Here's everything you ever wanted to know about this gigantic "houseboat".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224504/Ocean-Of-The-Seas-Worlds-larg...
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 09:41 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by air0msw
| Quote: | Originally posted by Lock5
No Thanks..............
Not even if it were free............ |
You did one with over 2000 males aboard! LOL |
It was part of my contractual obligation.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
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| posted on 11-3-2009 at 11:40 PM |
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Just looking at that sucker.. It's very tall and the lifeboats are not that far from the water.. If it began listing, I wonder if the top deck would
crush the lifeboats before they could clear the ship..?
$1.3 Billion is a lot of money and you still have to contend with 5999 "fellow passengers" and 2000 crew just to get around.
Yep, a houseboat (probably smaller than any of those lifeboats) is more my style.
Anyway, a boat, no matter how large, only sleeps two -comfortably.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 07:23 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Captain Bob
Anyway, a boat, no matter how large, only sleeps two -comfortably.
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Agree 100%..................
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN, 1985
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 11:16 AM |
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Waterwings,
My partying may be limited next summer...that just means it will be more 'intense'. Actually, things are looking up. If mother-in-law moves here
from upstate NY, that may give me free rein to take the boys (7 & 4) and go boating more next summer! I am hopeful.
Otherwise, you are correct. My boating will be limited to a radio controlled boat in our pool, or worse, our bathtub for a couple of years.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 11:39 AM |
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Very impressive, however I would not that many folks around all the time.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 11:42 AM |
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Hang in there JabezBoy! Yeah, sometimes instead of partying often you just have to party harder when you can.
Radio controlled boats are not too bad. Still, its like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell says "Ain't nothing like the real thing, Baby."
Be sure to feed those boys and them new ones some of that "pickle dawg bologna".
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 11:51 AM |
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"be sure to feed those boys and them new ones some of that "pickle dawg bologna".
LOL Now you're gettin the Jabez language down!! You'll have to come to
Jabez and visit next summer and 'getcha sum!"
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 12:56 PM |
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If she was built in DENMARK...you know its got class.
| Quote: | | Originally posted by JabezBoy If mother-in-law moves here from upstate NY, |
Dang Jabez, if m-i-l moves here you'll be catching more shi* than a screen door on a submarine. Good luck with that one.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 01:27 PM |
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(scratching head)
Where would you throw beads from???
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 02:41 PM |
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I do well with the m-i-l Denmarkshepards! A rarity I realize, but since her daughter had never dated anyone who could keep a job or wasn't on
unemployment before she met me, the m-i-l thinks I am great! :-)
Throw in some great gifts by me from time to time, some great family vacations where I pay for m-i-l, add some healthy understanding by m-i-l that I
made it before her and i can make it after her, and its all good!
As I have been known to say from time to time to my wife: "I grew up in a trailer park between two housing projects and I ain't afraid to go back!
How bout you?"
(Note: not that i WANT to go back, but i ain't afraid of it!)
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 03:23 PM |
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Got to wondering why this was considered the largest "cruise" ship in the world and not the largest ship period.
Apparently it depends if your talking about length or volume and then it depends up class, ie cargo, tanker, passenger or military.
But from my research (OK... wikipedia) the largest ship in the world is the "Knoch Nevis" a Supertanker.
It is 1,504 ft long or 381 ft longer than the Oasis of the Seas.
Oasis of the Seas is 1,187 ft long.
USS Enterprise is 1,123 ft long. Largest military ship afloat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world's_longest_ships
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 03:26 PM |
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Poor little Enterprise is only 1,123 ft long but carries a big punch.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 03:37 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lock5
| Quote: | Originally posted by Captain Bob
Anyway, a boat, no matter how large, only sleeps two -comfortably.
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Agree 100%.................. |
That's cause you guys are close minded!!! LOL
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 04:00 PM |
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Thats what I always told my wife about our 22' Pachanga "it's a nice boat for two" then we moved up to a 29' cruiser and realized we still have a
nice boat for two.
"Heap big trouble in the land of plenty, Tell me how we're gonna do whats best, You guess once upon a time in the west" Mark Knopfler
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 04:45 PM |
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Wonder if thrusters were on the standard equipment list?
"Not so easily shall the lights of freedom die." Winston Churchill, June 16, 1941
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 05:22 PM |
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Even the small cruise ships have thrusters. They can sure stir the bottom silt and sand up when in shallow water. It's a great experience to take a
cruise. We always get a balcony stateroom. Get out away from land and you will see the most beautiful blue water. If you haven't done a cruise to
the Caribbean, that should be your first choice. Then go on a second to Alaska.
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| posted on 11-4-2009 at 08:37 PM |
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That looks awsome. I agree easyrider a cruise is the best vacation i have ever gone on. The only bad part about it is I don't get to drive the
boat.
I do want to try the alaska cruise
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