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Hi,

today was the undocking from the new cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. The Norwegian Joy was building on the Meyer Werft (Shipyard in Germany).

I have some pictures from the new building

 

 

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More picture can you find in the next hours in my website

Gallery: Undocking Norwegian Joy - www.daskreuzfahrtschiff.de

 

 

 

regards patrick

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Very good pictures, thanks for posting them. Funny though, modern cruise ships hardly resemble ships anymore. They just look like floating buildings. I know it doesn't really matter that much what the outside looks like but the old ships had so much style.

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Very good pictures, thanks for posting them. Funny though, modern cruise ships hardly resemble ships anymore. They just look like floating buildings. I know it doesn't really matter that much what the outside looks like but the old ships had so much style.

 

 

This one still had her funnel missing, forward mast and some more ship stuff.. ;)

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But the photos do give us more information about Bliss, so that's good.

 

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From other overhead pics I've seen today, it has one small pool. I'm guessing the Chinese aren't big pool folks. So, I'd hope the pool deck will completely different. One would assume for Alaska, they'd have a retractable roof over the main pool area on the Bliss. As we all know, they surely won't have a 3 deck casino. So, other than the race track, which I heard was going to on the Bliss, I'm not sure what you can take away from these photo's. It's obviously not a ship most of us will ever board, since it's not intended for us at all. .

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We've sailed Alaska multiple times and the open air pools are always used. We've done most of the port calls in shorts and tahirts.

 

 

You've been lucky. Weather stats show that more than 50% of the time it's cloudy. The average high in Juneau on the hottest day of the year, August 6th, is 64 degrees. So while there can be a number of days in the summer that are nice enough to swim. If I'm building something that I know can used used all the time, I'd put a roof over it. Just sayin.

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From other overhead pics I've seen today, it has one small pool. I'm guessing the Chinese aren't big pool folks. So, I'd hope the pool deck will completely different. One would assume for Alaska, they'd have a retractable roof over the main pool area on the Bliss. As we all know, they surely won't have a 3 deck casino. So, other than the race track, which I heard was going to on the Bliss, I'm not sure what you can take away from these photo's. It's obviously not a ship most of us will ever board, since it's not intended for us at all. .

 

 

There's two pools, although we don't know how deep either are.

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I'm really liking how it doesn't have teh bar and Marketplace on the lido, opens up the pool deck so much more than before.

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This one still had her funnel missing, forward mast and some more ship stuff.. ;)

 

 

There was a video on PBS TV about the building of these ships and with the funnel (smoke stack) and the

other gear mast head and electronics having to be added outside the assembly building because of height

limitations - think building a ship inside a bottle !

 

Thanks for the great photos - at first I was thinking you had taken them from a helicopter - but then it was revealed

that these were (well) done from a drone !

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Very good pictures, thanks for posting them. Funny though, modern cruise ships hardly resemble ships anymore. They just look like floating buildings. I know it doesn't really matter that much what the outside looks like but the old ships had so much style.

 

 

I agree. I started working on cruise ships in 2006 and my first ship was Radiance of the Seas (in Alaska). I LOVE the glass elevators in the atrium!

 

But now, it is all floating buildings, just as you said. More balcony rooms, less charm.

 

We'll see how 4 new ships from NCL will look like. They're supposed to be 144.000 tonnes each, but with only 3300 guest capacity.

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There was a video on PBS TV about the building of these ships and with the funnel (smoke stack) and the

other gear mast head and electronics having to be added outside the assembly building because of height

limitations - think building a ship inside a bottle

 

I've been to Meyer Werft and did the tour in 2013, pretty awesome indeed!

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