Schooner Bar

[dmlm1995]

One of the things I love to do the most is sit for a bit and relax in the Schooner bar. I love the smell, the piano playing, looking out the window, playing trivia games, and most of all, a few drinks. :)

 

Does anyone else love it as much as me or is there a better spot?

[Philly Steve]

The Schooner Bar is a great place to people watch. ;) It's also one of the only places where I found an RCI smokestack souvenir cup for sale.

 

I'm a little partial to the Viking Crown Lounge (especially aboard Enchantment) and find it's a great place to do a little writing.

Commanding views and oh so comfortable. :cool:

[referee]

When we last sailed on the Mariner out of San Pedro CA the schooner bar was smoke free. Does anyone know if the Schooner on the Freedom is also smoke free?

[Sequim88]

schooner bar was smoke free

 

I don't recall smoke in Schooner Bar on Serenade either. I thought only smoking was in casino (except formal nights) and sports bar.

 

We spent hours and hours in Schooner bar on both Brilliance and Serenade and expect to again on Mariner. Especially if there is a good piano bar player who interacts with the crowd well. Our group litterally "owned" the wrap around bar at the piano in February and I can't count the number of cans of Guiness we bought Steve (the piano guy) in the course of the evenings.

 

During the day (like before lunch) on sea days it can be a very pleasant and quiet place to read and look out the windows.

[SewCruise]

Spent a lot of time in the Schooner Bar on Brilliance during my recent cruise. Great place to meet up with friends, talk about our day, watch the sun set, and play trivia. One of my favorite spots.

[PH8]

Love the Schooner Bar.....it is one of my favs!

[CL-JW]

We also love the Schooner Bar. It is our favorite place to have cocktails before dinner.

[Aquahound]

We also love the Schooner Bar. It is our favorite place to have cocktails before dinner.

 

Same here. After dinner espresso martinis in the Schooner Bar is sorta a ritual for DW and I.

 

IMO, the best Schooner Bars are on Vision and Radiance Classes. The other classes don't have the large wall of floor to ceiling windows.

[billsgal]

Sequim88, don't expect the Mariner Schooner Bar to be like the ones on Brilliance and Serenade. Schooner on Mariner is located on the same deck as the casino,(I think it's deck 4) and only has large portholes for windows, which overlook the promenade deck and have the lifeboats hanging above them. It does have the wraparound piano bar and is good for people watching, but definitely lacks the floor to ceiling windows found on Radiance class Schooner Bars.

[rubrrick]

It't my DW's and my first stop for a drink, around 3 PM on the day that we board.

 

Royal Caribbean, IMHO makes the best mojito!:D That is my one and only mojito.........just to say that we are aboard!

 

Rick

[Celhubb]

By far our favorite place on ship...we are from Halifax, Nova Scotia And the Schooner Bar is just like being home in a pub downtown! Jewel's is the best so far but I am looking forward to seeing it on Oasis.

[PH8]

It't my DW's and my first stop for a drink, around 3 PM on the day that we board.

 

Royal Caribbean, IMHO makes the best mojito!:D That is my one and only mojito.........just to say that we are aboard!

 

Rick

I agree.........my first Mojito was on the MN (out of CA)........I didnt like it then,but after another try on the SS,I was hooked.......

[Jimnbigd]

Does anyone else love it as much as me or is there a better spot?

I also enjoy the Viking Crown during the day since you can see both the ocean and the pool area. And on the Voyager OTS, deck 4 (just outside the Schooner Bar) is a great outside area. I also like the loungers in the Solarium, but I usually cannot find one during sea days. On the Voyager OTS there is a nice area on deck 13 front (up some stairs) that is hardly ever crowded. Also the helipad is nice (deck 5 front). And I enjoy listening to the pool band. At night I like to spend time in the various lounges. The Schooner bar can be fun. Derek Lewis in the English Pub (Pig and Whistle) was a riot. I like live music, and the club on deck 5 forward usually has a nice soft ballroom music band, and the Viking Crown has a more energetic performance band (sometimes these locations were switched). I guess that's one reason I like cruising Royal Caribbean -- it has a good variety of stuff for me.

[karena1]

We love Schooner's Bar but the best one by far is on Serenade!!! Absolutely love walking through the bow of the ship to get there!

[Merion_Mom]

I don't recall smoke in Schooner Bar on Serenade either. I thought only smoking was in casino (except formal nights) and sports bar.

 

We spent hours and hours in Schooner bar on both Brilliance and Serenade and expect to again on Mariner. Especially if there is a good piano bar player who interacts with the crowd well. Our group literally "owned" the wrap around bar at the piano in February and I can't count the number of cans of Guiness we bought Steve (the piano guy) in the course of the evenings.

 

During the day (like before lunch) on sea days it can be a very pleasant and quiet place to read and look out the windows.

 

Which Steve? This one?:

 

[cdamion]

What is and how to they create the smell in the Schooner Bar?

[dmlm1995]

I do not know what the smell is. It may be the varish, leather, and rope combination but it is a different smell. I love it. :)

[Merion_Mom]

What is and how to they create the smell in the Schooner Bar?

 

I do not know what the smell is. It may be the varish, leather, and rope combination but it is a different smell. I love it. :)

 

It's the pitch in the ropes. :)

[PH8]

The pitch in the ropes??:confused::confused:

 

On the RD class,it smells like gunpowder...........at least to me..

[Aquahound]

The pitch in the ropes??:confused::confused:

 

On the RD class,it smells like gunpowder...........at least to me..

 

It's a residue they put on the ropes. Pitch refers to the residue and the tar it's distilled from. On RCI, it's made to smell like gun powder.

 

I believe it's an old Latin term.

[Merion_Mom]

pix, picis f. ;)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_%28resin%29

 

Pitch (resin)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pitch has a viscosity approximately 230 billion times that of water, as demonstrated in this pitch drop experiment.

 

Pitch is the name for any of a number of viscoelastic, solid polymers. Pitch can be made from petroleum products or plants. Petroleum-derived pitch is also called bitumen. Pitch produced from plants is also known as resin. Products made from plant resin are also known as rosin.

 

Pitch was traditionally used to help caulk the seams of wooden sailing vessels (see shipbuilding). Pitch was also used to waterproof wooden containers, and is sometimes still used in the making of torches.

 

Petroleum-derived pitch is black in color, hence the adjectival phrase, "pitch-black".

Contents

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1 Viscoelastic properties

2 Production

3 External links

4 See also

5 References

 

[edit] Viscoelastic properties

 

Tar pitch is a viscoelastic polymer. This means that even though it seems to be solid at room temperature and can be shattered with a hard impact, it is actually fluid and will flow over time, but extremely slowly. The pitch drop experiment taking place at University of Queensland is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. For the experiment, pitch was put in a glass funnel and allowed to slowly drip out. Since the pitch was allowed to start dripping in 1930, only eight drops have fallen. It was calculated in the 1980s that the pitch in the experiment has a viscosity approximately 230 billion (2.3x1011) times that of water. [1]

[edit] Production

 

The heating (dry distilling) of wood causes tar and pitch to drip away from the wood and leave behind charcoal. Birchbark is used to make a particularly fine tar. Tar and pitch are often used interchangeably. However, pitch is considered more solid while tar is more liquid. Traditionally, pitch used for waterproofing buckets, barrels and small boats was drawn from pine. It is used to make Cutler's resin.

[edit] External links

 

The Pitch Drop Experiment

Pine Tar Production

Primitive tar and charcoal production

 

[edit] See also

 

Tar

[Aquahound]

I was close. ;)

[Kartgv]

The Schooner Bar on the Radiance is one of our favorites, though we also love the Viking Crown during the day and at sunset and even the Centrum, depending on the music playing. (The photo in our signature is from the Centrum, with the lights shining through our drinks from behind.) Don't think they allow smoking in any of them - we're reformed smokers and would definitely have noticed. We didn't like the Schooner on Explorer - seemed to be on a different level from most of the activity and was dark and dreary, usually empty.

[Aquahound]

Radiance of the Seas:

 

 

 

[Aquahound]

Enchantment of the Seas: