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AIS information changed. Moving her around in Ancona port (away from Fincantieri's build area). Can see some time lapse shots on https://viking.panomax.com/saturn/

14 hours ago, Frenchberet said:

The webcam seems to be working now.

 

https://viking.panomax.com/saturn/

 

 

Can now also see the current day's panomax view of Saturn on a beautiful day in Ancona.

1 hour ago, Frenchberet said:

The webcam seems to be working now.

 

https://viking.panomax.com/saturn/

 

 

Just looked and, for me anyway, it still shows as the evening of the 20th.

Panomax cam still not reactivated.  Took a look online to get cruise length from Ancona to Civitavecchia.  At 14 knots the time estimate is 3 days.  That's if they head directly to Civitavecchia.  Not sure where they provision the ship.  If it's in Civitavecchia, add at least another day.  Assuming the May 2nd itinerary goes off on time, Saturn should leave Ancona in the next day or two.  AIS still has it in the Fincantieri yards in Ancona.

42 minutes ago, CCWineLover said:

Hello Mike and Wife -

If you are on Saturn, I hope you are meaning you are going NYC to Bergen.  I don't believe the ship itself goes Bergen to Oslo.  Perhaps you are doing the train extension?  

Be sure to check out the individual Roll Calls as well.

 

I think the real progress we'll here is when/if we get reports from those who are on the first voyage out of Italy to Barcelona.  (May 2?)

First voyage is out of Rome on May 2nd.  AIS still has the Saturn in Fincantieri's Ancona yard.  Not sure why the Panomax camera is off today.  Noticed it one time in the past.

1 hour ago, mikerem48 said:

My wife and I have been on over 26 cruises, 5 with Viking River.  We are looking forward to cruising on a new Viking Ocean ship from NYC to Oslo.  We are also taking the extended tour after the cruise.  These extensions are sometimes almost better than the cruise.  See you soon!

Sorry to miss you.  This is a general "progress" board for Saturn. Would've liked to talk a bit.  My brother spent a good deal of time in Appleton and the State in general is beautiful.  🙂 (I am, however, a bears fan.)  Good sailing to you both.

On 4/14/2023 at 10:15 AM, Heidi13 said:

 

Based on the previous newbuilds, the probability of Saturn having the planetarium is low. Viking installed them on ship 5 (Orion) and ship 6 (Jupiter), but have not been included on subsequent newbuilds, with Saturn being # 10.

 

FYI - cruisemapper often includes incorrect info.

Noticed the following on Cruise Mapper's website:

Viking Saturn is one of the world's cruisers (following Cunard's RMS Queen Mary 2) with an onboard planetarium. Named "Explorers' Dome", this theatre-like venue is circular, with capacity 26 seats and located forward on Deck 8, facing Explorers Lounge. It uses the latest video projecting technology to show constellations and other space-related 3D videos on its domed roof.

Hope it's true as it would be an interesting opportunity.

Viking has a type of external webcam on their ships.  The Saturn webcam appears to be active (watched it just now).  Here's the link: https://viking.panomax.com/saturn/  (When you hit the little circular item toward the bottom left, the image will slowly rotate.)  It's just a shipyard for now but should show changes over the days as it puts out to sea.

On 3/21/2023 at 11:20 AM, Clay Clayton said:

Gotya!  Just surprised that they don’t do some sort of early sea trials as early as possible to identify problems so that there aren’t any issues at turnover.  When we got close to the completion of a building, all systems were pre tested, initial punchlists created, etc. so that the final versions were as short as possible.
 

Thanks again for your insights.  

You do get around, eh?  Also trying to keep track of Viking Saturn's progress.  Hope all goes well and it's had some bugs worked out before our July 19th embarkation. 🤞