Boat building rules

[Dog Drool]

After following the adventures of the Spamdam I am inspired

Where can I find rules and regs for building one of these ships?

are do you have to scavenge all supplies?

does every cruise have a contest?

[Krazy Kruizers]

Not all of the cruises that we have been on (which is quite a few) have the ship building contests.

 

Really depends on the CD and staff if they want one as well as how port intensive a cruise.

 

On those cruises where they did have one -- the people had to build the "ship" from materials they can find on the ship!! You are not suppose to bring items from home to do this. You can buy some things in the port like tape. But one CD frouned on this.

[flamingogal]

We've built a few ships over the years and every time we have, the "rules" have been a little different depending on the ship and the CD. Generally you can use whatever you find on the ship or get in port. They frown on you using objects that belong to the ship, i.e. dishes, plants, baskets, towels, etc. You can use cardboard, paper, bags, straws, tape, string, mostly anything consumable. We have found that anytime we asked for something it was happily given, found for us, or substituted.

 

If you've been on the Zaandam recently, hopefully our "Dam Pirate Trivia" ship is still hanging around the CD's office. That ship was made entirely w/ things purchased in port and found on the ship. I'll see if I can upload a pix of it (I'm usually challenged by things such as this).

 

Have a great ship building and a great cruise.

 

Jeanne

[trophy_23]

It is pretty neat to see what some of the people do. I have been on 3 HAL trips and only the last one had a contest. It may have been because it was a 2wk cruise and the others I have been on were 1wk Alaska which doesn't leave much time.

[Hflors]

My sister is going on the Rotterdam next March for 30 days. Do you think they will have a contest on that one?

 

Very interesting.

[sparky-elpaso]

We had one on the Westerdam in March. I'm not sure how folks found out about it though. Just 2 entries:

 

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

If there is going to be a ship building contest on a ship -- it will be posted in the daily program -- usually the first sea day -- a time and place to meet to go over the rules will be listed.