Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On 3/16/13 9:50 AM, Gogarty wrote:
In article ,
says...


I could see a smaller boat up in Alaska or maybe one of those bigger
sailboats that take 50 people down in the Carib.

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared. Company went belly up.
There is the Mystic Whaler out of New London. We did that more than 30 years
ago. Find a book entitled "Cruises and Cruse Ships." On our Christmas cruise
the food was great. We had a table for two. There were 1,000 children aboard.
Lots of fat people. Not in general a classy lot. But so what? Pay mre, get
more class. We are now looking at a July 4 cruise on the Queen Mary 2 to
Halifax and back.

Of course we would rather still have our own boat in which we ranged the
coast from Annapolis to Plymouth.


Is Swan Hellenic out of business? I heard it started up again, under
private ownership by a fellow who wrestled the brand name away from
Carnival. Anyway, if it is operational, it has a relatively small ship,
called Minerva, that we took a trip on in the late 1990s. The ship has
or had a really interesting "birthing." Carried about 400 passengers.
Much was made of its "ice-classified hull," though at the time we were
on it, little glacial ice was to be found. :)

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:50:01 -0400, Gogarty
wrote:

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared.

====


That's not really true. We are in the Caibbean right now and see
quite a few small to mid-size ships.

Try doing a Google search on "small caribbean cruise ships". You will
get a lot of hits.

If you want something really different, take a look at this:

http://www.starclippers.com/us/our-fleet.html

http://www.starclippers.com/

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:50:01 -0400, Gogarty wrote:

In article ,
says...


I could see a smaller boat up in Alaska or maybe one of those bigger
sailboats that take 50 people down in the Carib.

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared. Company went belly up.
There is the Mystic Whaler out of New London. We did that more than 30 years
ago. Find a book entitled "Cruises and Cruse Ships." On our Christmas cruise
the food was great. We had a table for two. There were 1,000 children aboard.
Lots of fat people. Not in general a classy lot. But so what? Pay mre, get
more class. We are now looking at a July 4 cruise on the Queen Mary 2 to
Halifax and back.

Of course we would rather still have our own boat in which we ranged the
coast from Annapolis to Plymouth.

That July 4 cruise sounds like fun. We almost did that trip last fall, from New York to Halifax with
stops in between to 'see the leaves'. It would have been on one of the Disney ships. Great food!


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On 3/16/2013 11:01 AM, J Herring wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:50:01 -0400, Gogarty wrote:

In article ,
says...


I could see a smaller boat up in Alaska or maybe one of those bigger
sailboats that take 50 people down in the Carib.

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared. Company went belly up.
There is the Mystic Whaler out of New London. We did that more than 30 years
ago. Find a book entitled "Cruises and Cruse Ships." On our Christmas cruise
the food was great. We had a table for two. There were 1,000 children aboard.
Lots of fat people. Not in general a classy lot. But so what? Pay mre, get
more class. We are now looking at a July 4 cruise on the Queen Mary 2 to
Halifax and back.

Of course we would rather still have our own boat in which we ranged the
coast from Annapolis to Plymouth.

That July 4 cruise sounds like fun. We almost did that trip last fall, from New York to Halifax with
stops in between to 'see the leaves'. It would have been on one of the Disney ships. Great food!


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Are you required to go ashore in Halifax, or is it permissible to stay
aboard ship and enjoy the amenities while admiring the waterfront?

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:17:47 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 3/16/2013 11:01 AM, J Herring wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:50:01 -0400, Gogarty wrote:

In article ,
says...


I could see a smaller boat up in Alaska or maybe one of those bigger
sailboats that take 50 people down in the Carib.

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared. Company went belly up.
There is the Mystic Whaler out of New London. We did that more than 30 years
ago. Find a book entitled "Cruises and Cruse Ships." On our Christmas cruise
the food was great. We had a table for two. There were 1,000 children aboard.
Lots of fat people. Not in general a classy lot. But so what? Pay mre, get
more class. We are now looking at a July 4 cruise on the Queen Mary 2 to
Halifax and back.

Of course we would rather still have our own boat in which we ranged the
coast from Annapolis to Plymouth.

That July 4 cruise sounds like fun. We almost did that trip last fall, from New York to Halifax with
stops in between to 'see the leaves'. It would have been on one of the Disney ships. Great food!


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Are you required to go ashore in Halifax, or is it permissible to stay
aboard ship and enjoy the amenities while admiring the waterfront?

No requirement to go ashore. The food would be much better on board anyway!


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:05:09 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:51:04 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:50:01 -0400, Gogarty
wrote:

The smaller ships in the Caribbean have disappeared.

====


That's not really true. We are in the Caibbean right now and see
quite a few small to mid-size ships.

Try doing a Google search on "small caribbean cruise ships". You will
get a lot of hits.

If you want something really different, take a look at this:

http://www.starclippers.com/us/our-fleet.html

http://www.starclippers.com/


My wife wants to do that. I will forward her the URL but I bet she
already has it.

We are kinda burnt on the Caribbean. It looks like we are doing Oregon
next.

Have you seen the sites in southern Utah yet?


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On 3/16/13 1:01 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:22:00 -0700, Urin Asshole
wrote:

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

On a Carnival boat, the food is like you get at a Carnival, plenty of
it but not that great.
All I can say about the obese people is one of the "emergencies" is
that the elevators stopped working. There are 8-12 foot wide stair
cases throughout the ship but most of these lard asses are waiting for
the elevator, just to go up one deck.

We have a rule on a cruise, never use the elevator. There is too much
eating and not enough exercise the way it is.



I don't see how the food on a massive "for the masses" ship could be
"great," considering how many diners there are at each sitting, how
significant the preparation has to be, and how much of it has to be done
ahead of time.

It's just a lot of food, prepared "en masse," sort of like the meals at
the big hotels in Las Vegas.

One of the dinner menus from a Disney cruise line looks suspiciously
like preprepared microwaved entrees right from the freezer:

Slowly Braised Lamb Shank with a Creamy Polenta and Portobello
Mushroom in a Red Wine Sauce

Three-Cheese Lobster Macaroni Lobster Meat, Gruyère, and Cheddar
Cheese Sauce tossed with Tubular Pasta and topped with a Parmesan Wafer

Porcini Mushroom-Stuffed Pasta in a Vegetable Broth topped with
Watercress, Shaved Parmesan Cheese, and Paprika Oil Drizzle

"Triton's" Seared Sea Bass with a Mushroom Herb Risotto, Sweet
Onion Marmalade, and garnished with a Potato Crisp

Grilled Marinated Tofu, Roasted Zucchini, Eggplant, and Red Peppers
on Israeli Couscous with a Lime-Cilantro Sauce

Crispy Roasted Duck Breast with Braised Napa Cabbage and Potato
Cake, with Pomegranate Jus

Grilled Farm-Raised Chicken Breast Green Asparagus, Pineapple, and
Raisin Barley with Herb-Lemon Jus Grilled Beef Tenderloin on Olive-Oil
Smashed Potatoes, Bacon-wrapped Green Beans, and Tamarind-Barbecue Reduction

I dunno, it just doesn't seem like the fare at a decent landside
restaurant, like, oh:

La côte de veau grillée, légumes saisonniers et champignons sauvages

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:21:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/16/13 1:01 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:22:00 -0700, Urin Asshole
wrote:

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

On a Carnival boat, the food is like you get at a Carnival, plenty of
it but not that great.
All I can say about the obese people is one of the "emergencies" is
that the elevators stopped working. There are 8-12 foot wide stair
cases throughout the ship but most of these lard asses are waiting for
the elevator, just to go up one deck.

We have a rule on a cruise, never use the elevator. There is too much
eating and not enough exercise the way it is.



I don't see how the food on a massive "for the masses" ship could be
"great,"

That's 'cause you've not been on a Disney cruise. You should have stopped right there.


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On 3/16/13 1:16 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:17:47 -0400, Meyer wrote:

On 3/16/2013 11:01 AM, J Herring wrote:


Are you required to go ashore in Halifax, or is it permissible to stay
aboard ship and enjoy the amenities while admiring the waterfront?

You can always stay on the ship but we make a point of getting off and
seeing what there is to see wherever it stops

When we were in Santo Tomás de Castilla Guatemala it didn't look like
there was much to see (just a little straw market) but once we started
walking around we found the navy was running a water taxi over to a
Great Western resort and they had a hiking path back in the rain
forest that went on for miles. We saw howler monkeys and birds I have
never seen anywhere else. It was certainly worth the $10 a head for
the boat ride.



Go on a cruise and stay on the ship when it makes port?

Ugly Americans do. Must be a corollary to taking a trip to Greece and
eating a grease burger forlunch at a McDonalds rather than spanakopita
and retsina at a taverna, going to a local Ford dealer to look over cars
instead of spending the day at the Parthenon, and staying at a huge
American hotel instead of a charming pension operated by its on-site
owners.

Let's take a cruise, but only if we are constipated...
 

On 3/16/13 1:27 PM, J Herring wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:21:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/16/13 1:01 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:22:00 -0700, Urin Asshole
wrote:

I heard the food is great though, but there are lots of obese people.

On a Carnival boat, the food is like you get at a Carnival, plenty of
it but not that great.
All I can say about the obese people is one of the "emergencies" is
that the elevators stopped working. There are 8-12 foot wide stair
cases throughout the ship but most of these lard asses are waiting for
the elevator, just to go up one deck.

We have a rule on a cruise, never use the elevator. There is too much
eating and not enough exercise the way it is.



I don't see how the food on a massive "for the masses" ship could be
"great,"

That's 'cause you've not been on a Disney cruise. You should have stopped right there.


Salmonbait

--
Hope you're having a spectacular day!



Yeah, and I don't frequent "all you can eat" cafeterias much, either.