Carnival Legend Dry Dock - Portland Arrival

Update from Vigor Industrial on FB at 5:14pm PDT:

Vigor Industrial Here's a time update. While it will be 7:30 before the Carnival Legend starts getting loaded on drydock, you'll have a great view by 5:30 while the lifeboats are unloaded close to the railroad bridge near the shipyard.

Envious of our Portland cruisers that get a chance to see this process!

I saw her passing through Astoria yesterday. Almost drove my car in the river:'):')

She just cruised up the Willamette River today!

Amazing pictures mommiemudd, thanks for linking. We are on her again in November this year. Looking forward to seeing the improvements.

We loved sailing Alaska on the Legend .... Can't wait to see what she looks like after renovations

http://s.oregonlive.com/Kx4WFGW

Thank you for the photos! Did anyone notice the guy on the back deck of what I think is a tug? It looks like he's standing at a gas grill barbecuing!

Very cool!

Looks like she could use some paint touch-up, especially around the water line. Lots of rust. Do they usually paint the exterior as part of a dry dock?

Thank you for the photos! Did anyone notice the guy on the back deck of what I think is a tug? It looks like he's standing at a gas grill barbecuing!

That's a "push boat" used to push collections of barges up and down the river. Due to its size, it is considered an "uninspected" vessel, so gets away with things the USCG doesn't allow on larger vessels.

Very cool!

Looks like she could use some paint touch-up, especially around the water line. Lots of rust. Do they usually paint the exterior as part of a dry dock?

That's actually one of the main reasons the ships go into drydock, to paint the area of the hull below the water line. The blue "boottopping" at the water line takes a lot of punishment from seas, docks, tugs, so that will be dealt with as well. Any areas of the topsides hull that needs painting will be done as well.

So I am curious, since it's just two weeks; what happens to the crew. Can they stay onboard or do they have to go home?

Just curious!

So I am curious, since it's just two weeks; what happens to the crew. Can they stay onboard or do they have to go home?

Just curious!

Not a question of "if" they can stay onboard, they are required to stay onboard if their contract is still running (with the exception of entertainers and cruise staff). The vast majority of work done on the front of the house is not done by shipyard workers, but by specialist subcontractors brought in to do this work on all the line's ships. There will be hundreds if not over a thousand of these. These folk have to be housed, so in guest cabins, and fed, so some of the cabin stewards will be retained doing housekeeping on these cabins, and the passenger galley staff will assist the crew galley in feeding them. Often, a line wants to try out new menu items, so they will have the galley staff work on these, and the wait staff serving them, to the officers who will now eat in the MDR. Deck and engine crew will have their own work to accomplish, both with and without shipyard assistance, or will have to provide assistance to the shipyard. Bar staff, wait staff, and housekeeping staff will be used for a variety of work: clearing cabins of furniture for carpet renewal, taking furniture to the upholsterers for work, and then "rebuilding" the cabins when done, cleaning up after all the contractors doing various work around the front of house (sweeping up and removing debris every night), or performing "fire watch" (standing in a compartment either where the shipyard is welding or burning, or the adjacent compartments, with a fire extinguisher and radio to keep from having accidental fires), and this fire watch can be all through the ship. I've had cabin stewards, bar staff, and laundry personnel in the engine room during a drydock as fire watch. And finally, cleaning the entire ship before leaving the dock so it is ready for guests immediately.

Those pictures show a 15,000psi water blaster taking the bottom paint down to bare steel. In the first picture, at the top left, you can see a "track blaster" which is a sand blasting machine that is held to the ship by magnets, and is driven along, up and down, fore and aft, by remote control, and has an air/sand hose, and a vacuum hose to collect the sand and paint. The water blaster is used in those areas of complex curvature where the track blaster would not be able to adhere to the hull.

Not a question of "if" they can stay onboard, they are required to stay onboard if their contract is still running (with the exception of entertainers and cruise staff). The vast majority of work done on the front of the house is not done by shipyard workers, but by specialist subcontractors brought in to do this work on all the line's ships. There will be hundreds if not over a thousand of these. These folk have to be housed, so in guest cabins, and fed, so some of the cabin stewards will be retained doing housekeeping on these cabins, and the passenger galley staff will assist the crew galley in feeding them. Often, a line wants to try out new menu items, so they will have the galley staff work on these, and the wait staff serving them, to the officers who will now eat in the MDR. Deck and engine crew will have their own work to accomplish, both with and without shipyard assistance, or will have to provide assistance to the shipyard. Bar staff, wait staff, and housekeeping staff will be used for a variety of work: clearing cabins of furniture for carpet renewal, taking furniture to the upholsterers for work, and then "rebuilding" the cabins when done, cleaning up after all the contractors doing various work around the front of house (sweeping up and removing debris every night), or performing "fire watch" (standing in a compartment either where the shipyard is welding or burning, or the adjacent compartments, with a fire extinguisher and radio to keep from having accidental fires), and this fire watch can be all through the ship. I've had cabin stewards, bar staff, and laundry personnel in the engine room during a drydock as fire watch. And finally, cleaning the entire ship before leaving the dock so it is ready for guests immediately.

This is the best explanation I've seen! Thank you for taking the time to post this information.

A local Portland news story about the Legend's dry dock

I've searched high and low and can't find a departure time for the ship,which I assumed to be today based on initial time line. We always try to head over to see ships out of dry dock head back . Anyone have any idea if she is leaving today and if so,what time?

I've searched high and low and can't find a departure time for the ship,which I assumed to be today based on initial time line. We always try to head over to see ships out of dry dock head back . Anyone have any idea if she is leaving today and if so,what time?

I know this is too little, too late but it looks like Legend left Portland at 4PM yesterday (May 13th). It should be in Seattle tomorrow morning (May 15th).

Legend is in Seattle this morning - here's the only web cam of the Smith Cove dock area that I am aware of (perhaps someone can post a link to a better one):

http://74.92.225.161:32610/advanced.web?s=0;#eyJsYXlvdXQiOjAsIml0ZW1zIjpbeyJzZXJ2ZXJJZCI6IjAiLCJpdGVtSWQiOjE1NzMzNzYsInR5cGUiOiJjYW1lcmEifV0sInNpZGViYXIiOjEsIm1vZGUiOiJsaXZlIiwicXVhbGl0eSI6Nywic2l6ZSI6MTAwfQ==