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Edge is leaving the shipyard

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I am watching the link Lloyd gave us: http://www.shipspotting.com/ais/?shipLat=47.2784&shipLon=-2.19785 You will need to type Celebrity Edge in the search on upper left and then choose Edge.

 

It is just a green square moving around. She is green and then there a bunch of blue tugboats around. That's all I have to watch, but it is better than nothing! She's still floating (at least she is moving). :D

 

When the videos start to come out, hopefully someone will share!

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Nemanoxer Great Review Rare

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A little report, taken from

https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/saint-nazaire-le-celebrity-edge-prend-la-mer

Translated with Google

 

 

A ship that bluffed the pilots

 

For the exit of the port, three pilots were on board, the maneuver having been previously repeated on the simulator SPSA of Nantes. The officers, who have a great habit of steamers, are bluffed by it. "It went extremely well, it's really a great ship at the technical level, comfort, reliability, it's great art," said Laurent Herpin, pilot major of the Loire station, which was in charge yesterday of the apparatus. "Compared to other ships, we did not feel like we were doing the first tests, it was as if the boat had already been out before, there was an amazing serenity on board." Equipped with two 16 MW pods and four 3.6 MW bow thrusters each, the Celebrity Edge proved to be powerful, very manoeuvrable and particularly quiet. "For the evasion, we pushed the thrusters to 70%, which allowed the passage to begin to test them. Even under these conditions, one had the impression of being stopped because one did not feel in footbridge any vibration, which is the case usually, especially as the presence of a muddy water facilitates the vibrations. The comfort is really incredible. Overall, Laurent Herpin notes that all teams on the shipyard and port services are now extremely well-honed: "The fact that Saint-Nazaire builds more and more boats makes the preparation of the tests, which are a very complex phase, is extremely well done. Previously, we had at best one ship a year. This year, we will have two, and even normally the trials of a third. Logically, the more often we go out, the more we can improve and, ultimately, everyone is better.

 

Until Sunday, the ship, with several hundred engineers and technicians on board, will test off Belle-Ile, especially its navigation and propulsion systems. Then the Celebrity Edge will return to the form Joubert, where it will go into dry dock to clean its hull. It should be relaunched on 18 August and return to Penhoët's wharf, where the completion of public spaces will continue. A small maneuver, with a déhalage, is planned at the beginning of September to test the Magic Carpet, located side quai. After a new series of tests, scheduled just before the fall, the Celebrity Edge will be delivered to its owner, the American company Celebrity Cruises. It will open in the United States in November.

 

Designed for the high-end market, the Celebrity Edge measures 306 meters long and 39 meters wide and has a gauge of 129,500 GT. It will have 1467 cabins and suites.

 

Under construction since the spring, its first sistership, the future Celebrity Apex (K34) will come into service in the spring of 2020. Two other units (L34 and M34) have been commissioned by the American company Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of the RCCL group. These boats are to be delivered by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in the fall of 2021 and in the fall of 2022. A fifth could then be added to the series.

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Thank you for this informative post...it is encouraging that all went well .

 

Wonder when they will test the Magic Carpet operation?

 

I read about a schedule somewhere in this board, it said MC tests will be in September.

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What great info, and interesting on reading the report about the minimal engine vibration. I think this also answers a question asked earlier on what type of engines/fuel Edge has and it appears they are very similar to the S-Class, and are gas turbines.

 

Another quick response to a post here: yes, there isn’t the ‘X’ on the side of the stacks, but the stacks form an ‘X’....neat!

 

Love watching the Edge going through Her paces.

 

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