Celebrity cancels cruise - Summit Repair - Page 2

Yorsk · 05-16-2006, 02:32 PM

Well - that's most interesting!
Summits last 2 Hawaii trips arrived back to LA late. On the last one they blamed "excessive stabilizer use" for slowing us down coming back from the islands, but made up lots of time when imegration folks met the ship via the pilot boat. No mention of larger issues.
We spent the first 3 days at 21Knots, last day was up to 22+. Fair winds, mostly cloudy skys, strong wind from ahead on day 3, moderate seas throughout.

Dani · 05-16-2006, 05:32 PM

Maybe we are looking at this all wrong.

It might be confirmation of the old saying " A slow boat to China '" ?

Seacruise · 05-18-2006, 02:34 PM

I am not sure Summit will be going to Victoria for repair now. I read in the Vancouver paper that she is going to Vancouver Shipyards in Vancouver. When I was in Vancouver yesterday at Canada Place the drydock looked empty right now.
The other problem is Sun Princess is in Victoria at the engraving dock right now. She isn't due to sail till Sunday.

Phil
Seacruise

sealegs · 05-19-2006, 03:02 AM

Hi, Phil

I am not so sure the Vancouver shipyard facilities are big enough to accomodate a 968' vessel...At least if you're referring to the one in North Van, straight accross from Canada Place, and immediately west of where our now infamous ''cats ferries'' are parked.

I seem to recall being quite miffed Sept 04 when GTS SUMMIT ran into the same problem on her last southbound cruise from Seward and had to 1/ shorten that one by one day ( strange...but no mutiny then !!! ) 2/ go all the way to SanFransisco for a quick '' pod fix '' before returning to Vancouver and start an abridged 14 day sailing ( now reduced to 10....) to LosAngeles via Alaska.......Miffed,because the yards across in NorthVan had no vessel in for works, Victoria's Washington Marine could not commit, and we '' lost the business'' to SanFransisco........until I was reminded that 1/ North Van is not big enough to service a vessel that size, and 2/ Victoria drydock facilities were already '' booked'' for the prep work towards RYNDAM's SOE refit.....

It would be great if Van shipyards could actually do drydock overall ( and overhaul) work on big cruise ships....

IMO anyways.

I'm interested in your version

Cheers
Claude

sealegs · 05-19-2006, 03:07 AM

Hi again, Phil

Isn't SUN PRINCESS due out of drydock Saturday 20th ??? I tought she was as her Seattle departure Sunday is still on for next week's inside passage sailing....
GTS SUMMIT wouldn't arrive at the yard before 1900 // 2000 anyways...

What do you think ??

Cheers
Claude

Seacruise · 05-19-2006, 03:29 AM

Claude:

The Summit is due in/out of Vancouver on Saturday. Sun sails from Seattle on Sunday. The sailing time from Victoria to Seattle is 2 -3 hours and the Sun would not have to be docked till about 11:00 am to leave at 5:00 Pm as she has no passengers. The ship should be able to pull up to the dock load and go.
I had read in the Sun paper on Monday that she was headed to dry dock here in Vancouver. I thought this was a misprint because the Vancouver dry dock was to small.
I have just looked up the facilities and came upon this:

Floating drydocks

220 metres (722 feet) x 45.8 metres (150 feet)
36,000 tonne lift capacity
Cranage to 85 tonnes

Graving dock

347.67 metres (1140 feet) x 38.40 metres (126 feet)
Vessels up to 100,000 DWT
Cranage to 150 tonnes

I would say it is the graving dock in Victoria at Dockyard.

Phil who was hoping to get photos in Vancouver

sealegs · 05-19-2006, 11:44 AM

8) Good morning, Phil,
Thanks for your info on the drydock facilities. Very informative.

That article in the paper last week....was it not the one penned by Raina Delisle, about '' a limping ship to Alaska'' and all that ****** about mutiny, sitins, and all that stuff ??? It contained so many falacies so as to deserve almost no credibility. And the Patrick Reagan from North Van, her source, is actually the one that launched this whole mess on board GTS SUMMIT, if I'm correct.
That episode is getting uglier and nastier by the minute...

One of the things it referred to is '' the ship will be repaired in Vancouver'' as allegedly quoted from Mike Sheehan of Celebrity....The drydock is booked for Victoria as far as I can tell.

From what your sources tell you, if SUN is not vacating the drydock before early Sunday 20th, then, GTS SUMMIT will '' coast '' into Victoria evening of 19th....and simply hold off at anchor....Too bad, she could have arrived late afternoon, pull right into the dock and get a quick start.

Cheers
Claude

Seacruise · 05-21-2006, 03:06 AM

Well Sun Princess has left Dry Dock and is currently headed for Seattle.

Summit is at Sea and has not arrived in Victoria as of yet. I suspect by morning er will see Summit in dry dock.

Phil

c-to-sea · 05-21-2006, 10:31 AM

Summit looks to be anchored off Victoria at Royal Roads, waiting to enter the
drydock. I checked the archives last noght and she had sailed from Vancouver
earlier after disembarking the madding crowd. There was some negative
press coverage during her stop here in Victoria on Friday.
I still hope to get some picturess of her, if I can.

Seacruise · 05-21-2006, 11:44 AM

I would say we have a dry dock almost dead ahead.

Phil