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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 03-05-2002 01:16 PM

This posting is directly related to the "Cruise conditions" posting below. However, possibly to initiate a trend, I am posting separately under a new topic.

Given the low-costs of labor on the Carnival fleet, documented below, did the costs of labor (Unionized, US, wages-and-hours-limited, and such) on the US flagged ships of the "Classic Voyages" group of lines make their ships non-competitive?

Certainly the published rates for the coastal cruises of "Cape May Light" were higher than the norm. But Nantucket Clippers are also US flagged, are they not?

Now, the topic of this posting. Where is the Cape May Light? Is she for sale?

Info please.

Posts: 2149 | From: St. Michaels MD USA , the town that fooled the British! | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

fondaenergy
First Class Passenger
Member # 1641

posted 03-07-2002 12:38 PM

I believe the Cape May Light or a brand-new sister ship are still in Atlantic Shipyards in JAX, Florida. The cruise company had a ship 100 percent ready to go right when it went bankrupt.

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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 03-07-2002 03:34 PM

Thr sistership was the "Cape Cod Light" which was well on the way to completion, but never left the yards. The "Cape May Light" has completed several cruises. DId it return to the shipyard or is it laid up somewhere in Eastern Waters?

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Marcia
First Class Passenger
Member # 1198

posted 03-07-2002 05:39 PM

Cambodge, I'd like to also know where she is. I loved the story of how St. Michael's fooled the British. We were there in Sept. Lovely little town. But then I love anything to do with water.

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Cambodge
First Class Passenger
Member # 906

posted 03-08-2002 08:58 AM

Thanks for the compliment Marcia. We retired here from DC. and love it.

We have a few port calls by the Clipper Cruise Line shipa both in Chesapeake Cruises and redeployment to either southern or northern waters. The Bay is very shallow here. The "Nantucket" and "Yorktown Clipper" usually tie up at the Maritime Museum, but the "Clipper Adventurer" - a larger ship and had to to tender in. We also have had visits by the spanking new American Cruise Line ship. The "Cape May Light" had to tie up at Oxford on the Choptank River and bus to here.

I posted an review of this vessel from an Article in the Washington Post last year.

I should think that if either Clipper Cruise Lines or the American Cruise lines could get it at a REAL bargain, that the "Cape May Light" would fit their operational patterns.

But the Feds and MARAD move in mysterious ways.

So I shall continue the tradition of St. Michaels in "fooling the British." As long as Malcom is at the helm, it should not be too difficult!

[ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: Cambodge ]

Posts: 2149 | From: St. Michaels MD USA , the town that fooled the British! | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

Britanis
First Class Passenger
Member # 2912

posted 03-25-2002 04:38 PM

Delta Queen Costal Voyages started operations at a bad time for AMCV, though thing eventually got much worse, the company was already well on its way to bankruptcy. American crews and US labour unions were clearly not the culprits. American-Hawaii used to offer some great rates way back when.

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