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Post by gato on Sept 20, 2020 8:06:43 GMT -5
The Carnival Cruise Line is selling off 18 of their ships. Tough to make money off a ship that sits around the harbor gathering barnacles. I've abandoned my plans to buy a T Rex fossil in favor of buying one of these ships before they're all gone. On the downside, I may have to extend my driveway in order to accommodate the Carnival "Magic" or "Horizon," when I'm not actually sailing. But on the other hand, I get to keep any of the low-paid wait staff still trapped in the bowels of the craft. If they can manage shuffleboard and dishwashing, they can surely be taught lawn mowing and landscaping. www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/carnival-selling-cruise-ships-pandemic/507-fcc57b27-12c2-4928-8cc9-880f7c7560ef |
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Post by Think Floyd on Sept 20, 2020 8:44:57 GMT -5
I just had a great idea...
Turn cruise ships into floating, mobile retirement homes! All you would need to do is to convert a small section of it into some sort of hospital area, and add a helicopter for emergency medivacs. You already have rooms, food, entertainment, and residents could have different views out of their porthole windows as they sail to wherever.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 20, 2020 8:51:38 GMT -5
MT2 Floating Jam Cruise?
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Post by gato on Sept 20, 2020 8:56:58 GMT -5
The first converted cruise ship could be named Tom Cruise, in honor of Tom Thumb, that other little famous guy.
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Post by rdr on Sept 20, 2020 10:35:47 GMT -5
How about another MS The World?
Aboardtheworld.com
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Sept 20, 2020 11:53:35 GMT -5
So there already are theme cruises, including Bona Blues Cruises, and I am sure MTV cruises, I have even heard of Sex themes and swinger cruises, but all of these are on hold until November when it will all change.
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Post by gato on Sept 20, 2020 16:09:44 GMT -5
Well, there's still the Latex Swinger cruise, with the eye catching pyrotechnics of the Captain's gender reveal party.
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 20, 2020 16:14:45 GMT -5
Buy two: one for "backup"...
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Post by twangmeister on Sept 20, 2020 19:45:19 GMT -5
Hmmmm - more impressive than that red 24' pontoon boat I owned a few years back.
I wonder how much a boat lift for a cruise ship would cost.
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Post by JDC on Sept 20, 2020 22:31:56 GMT -5
First question that comes to mind ... To whom? The ships I found that they are trying to divest themselves of are 25 years old. That's pretty long in the tooth for a cruise ship.
"All you would need to do is to convert a small section of it into some sort of hospital area"
Having gigged on cruise ships for 15 years I can tell you that there ARE some medical facilities .. even an operating room (although I don't know that anything more delicate that setting a broken limb would have been attempted with the ship in motion!).
"How about another MS the World?"
I have friends who did a couple of contracts on that one. Always thought it would be a drag (for a musician). When you are doing 7/10/12 day itineraries there's a new "audience" everyone once in a while. The folks on the World LIVE THERE !
I'm glad I retired from working on cruises when I did.
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Post by LTB on Sept 20, 2020 22:39:37 GMT -5
On the downside, I may have to extend my driveway in order to accommodate the Carnival "Magic" or "Horizon," when I'm not actually sailing. But on the other hand, I get to keep any of the low-paid wait staff still trapped in the bowels of the craft. If they can manage shuffleboard and dishwashing, they can surely be taught lawn mowing and landscaping. LOL, hilarious you are! My wife and I never want to go on a cruise for various reasons, most of them obvious. |
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Post by gato on Sept 21, 2020 5:51:53 GMT -5
"The ships I found that they are trying to divest themselves of are 25 years old. That's pretty long in the tooth for a cruise ship.
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Big selling point: "these ships are 25 years old and they still float! Can you say the same about a 25 year old Cadillac?"
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Sept 21, 2020 7:10:50 GMT -5
I keep getting promotions from Norwegian....I did one cruse, not interested in doing that again (even without the pandemic).
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Post by gato on Sept 21, 2020 7:45:52 GMT -5
I keep getting promotions from Norwegian....I did one cruse, not interested in doing that again (even without the pandemic). My wife campaigned for years and I finally gave in. We went on a seven day cruise to Alaska. It was like spending seven days in a crowded shopping mall. Luckily I discovered the ship's library on Day Two. |
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Post by Leftee on Sept 21, 2020 7:47:50 GMT -5
I went on this three hour tour one decade...
... a three hour tour.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 21, 2020 9:28:15 GMT -5
I went on this three hour tour one decade... ... a three hour tour. Is that the time you made a Deluxe Reverb out of coconuts? |
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Post by Leftee on Sept 21, 2020 9:30:11 GMT -5
I did. I used palm leaves for the speaker cone. I made the glass for the tubes from beach sand.
And my wife is way hotter than Ginger or Maryanne.
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Post by gato on Sept 21, 2020 9:49:06 GMT -5
The beauty of having a 25 year old cruise liner, is that if you get tired of sailing around the world, you can always convert it to a submarine, without too much effort.
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Post by JDC on Sept 21, 2020 19:29:47 GMT -5
The beauty of having a 25 year old cruise liner, is that if you get tired of sailing around the world, you can always convert it to a submarine, without too much effort. A submarine or an artificial reef lol |
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