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Topic: The new PEACEBOAT March 31, 2012

dmwnc1
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posted 03-31-2012 03:48 PM

She passed through the Panama Canal today March 31, 2012 heading westbound to her new home:

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dmwnc1
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posted 03-31-2012 04:07 PM

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joe at travelpage
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posted 03-31-2012 06:26 PM

That is one ugly funnel...

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DAMBROSI2
First Class Passenger
Member # 35998

posted 03-31-2012 06:57 PM

I agree Joe, great grabs on the transit. Hard to believe that was a Carnival ship, then Costa.

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Grant
First Class Passenger
Member # 1000

posted 03-31-2012 07:08 PM

It is very odd to see a passenger vessel passing through the locks with almost no one on deck, instead of the crowded masses normally seen!
grant

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 03-31-2012 07:37 PM

Email Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES

Ocean Dream will be heading to the Pacific Ocean for her crossing to Japan for her first Peace Boat round the world voyage. She is due to sail from Yokohama on the 8th May 2012 .

Compared with the word ' Peaceboat ' on the hull of ss ' The Oceanic ' her Peace Boat name letters seem to be a lot thinner.

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 03-31-2012 11:35 PM

One crew member of Ocean Dream told me that Peaceboat will change Oceanic for Ocean Dream. I mean, Oceanic will be back to Pullmantur, it will be returned to their owners (remembering that Oceanic was just chatered).

There's the possiblity of the ship, operates in brazilian waters, for CVC, or even for Pullmantur somewhere. Although, the more likely is really scrap her.

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dmwnc1
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posted 04-01-2012 12:04 AM

quote:
Originally posted by joe at travelpage:
That is one ugly funnel...

She certainly lacks the graceful lines of OCEANIC.

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Neil - Ex P & O & PRINCESS CRUISES
First Class Passenger
Member # 5641

posted 04-01-2012 06:45 AM

Having been built in Denmark and entering service for Carnival Cruises in 1982 as the ' Tropicale ' her original funnel was removed when she was transfered to Costa Cruises in 2000.

She was then fitted with a Costa style funnel and renamed ' Costa Tropicale '.

She then went to P & O Australia in 2005 and sailed as the ' Pacific Star ' before being sold to Pullmantur cruises in 2007.

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dougnewman
First Class Passenger
Member # 11349

posted 04-01-2012 10:55 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Daniel Capella:
One crew member of Ocean Dream told me that Peaceboat will change Oceanic for Ocean Dream. I mean, Oceanic will be back to Pullmantur, it will be returned to their owners (remembering that Oceanic was just chatered).
There's the possiblity of the ship, operates in brazilian waters, for CVC, or even for Pullmantur somewhere. Although, the more likely is really scrap her.

OCEANIC was not chartered, she was sold.

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 04-01-2012 08:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by dougnewman:
OCEANIC was not chartered, she was sold.

Yes, you is right. Oceanic was sold. I was thinking on something like a 25 years charter, with the option to buy in the end, but she was really sold. What he said to me don't make so much sense, so.

Could the Ocean Dream charter contract include the devolution of Oceanic?

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 04-01-2012 08:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company.:
Having been built in Denmark and entering service for Carnival Cruises in 1982 as the ' Tropicale ' her original funnel was removed when she was transfered to Costa Cruises in 2000.
She was then fitted with a Costa style funnel and renamed ' Costa Tropicale '.
She then went to P & O Australia in 2005 and sailed as the ' Pacific Star ' before being sold to Pullmantur cruises in 2007.
.

Her funnel looks like the Costa Victoria one.

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 04-01-2012 08:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company.:
Having been built in Denmark and entering service for Carnival Cruises in 1982 as the ' Tropicale ' her original funnel was removed when she was transfered to Costa Cruises in 2000.
She was then fitted with a Costa style funnel and renamed ' Costa Tropicale '.
She then went to P & O Australia in 2005 and sailed as the ' Pacific Star ' before being sold to Pullmantur cruises in 2007.
.

Her funnel looks like the Costa Victoria one.

But her's is a single piece, while the Victoria one is double.

[ 04-01-2012: Message edited by: Daniel Capella ]

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 04-02-2012 01:03 AM

When new, Tropical was an intersting mix of new old and new w/her glass-enclosed promenades. Looks like a small portion of her angled Carnival funnel remains at the forward section of her vertical Costa stack.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 04-02-2012 12:16 PM

Oceanic was engineered as a world travel ship in any type of weather. Tropicale was designed as a Caribbean cruiser. Can she provision and have the fuel range for an uninterrupted trans-Pacific voyage?

The Holiday class ships took quite a beating down under in storms the Oceanic would laugh at. Tropicale can take an occasional storm, but can it take the pounding the Oceanic could?

In regards to accommodation Oceanic has excellent space planning, Tropicale except for the promenade pinch point, is good too.

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Danpc5
First Class Passenger
Member # 74766

posted 04-07-2012 09:56 PM

There's more pictures of the change Pullmantur - Peace Boathere.

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