Where in the world ?

[Lanky Lad]

1 hour ago, bluemarble said:

 

This looks like QE2's at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal in New York.

Correct, extra points for the pier number.

 

We were due to go to Brooklyn, but half way across the Atlantic, we were given the good news that our dock had been changed to Manhattan.

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, Lanky Lad said:

Correct, extra points for the pier number. ...

 

I'm going to go with pier 90.

[bluemarble]

Lanky Lad's photo of QE2 in Manhattan yesterday is a perfect segue into this post of mine. I had been planning to post this today since it was captured exactly six years ago today.

 

This is obviously the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, so no need to answer what port this is. But try to answer this question instead.

 

What is significant (for the Cunard ship) about this scene from the "PortNYWebcam.com" webcam on September 27, 2014?

 

Edited September 27, 2020 by bluemarble

[carlmm]

13 hours ago, Lanky Lad said:

Monte Carlo

 

Correct! The beautiful Casino de Monte Carlo is probably the most photographed building in all of Monaco.

[carlmm]

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

 

What is significant (for the Cunard ship) about this scene from the "PortNYWebcam.com" webcam on September 27, 2014?

 

 

 

Wild guess: The last time she docked there?

 

Of course September 27 is the launch date of the Queen Elizabeth, but there is no relation to this scene as far as I can see.

[carlmm]

One more for the classic question: Where in the world?

[bluemarble]

4 minutes ago, carlmm said:

Wild guess: The last time she docked there? ...

 

That's correct. As far as I can tell, that scene exactly six years ago today shows the last time QM2 has docked at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal.

[Lanky Lad]

9 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'm going to go with pier 90.

Correct again. 

[sogne]

maiden call at what was once an anchor port

[Underwatr]

May I play? 🙂

 

[exlondoner]

9 hours ago, sogne said:

maiden call at what was once an anchor port

 

Visby?

[bluemarble]

I'm digging deep into my webcam archives to find this one. This may be tricky to some, but I figure it will be easily recognizable to others as well. Name the port and the specific location where this webcam was located.

 

[Ray66]

1 hour ago, bluemarble said:

I'm digging deep into my webcam archives to find this one. This may be tricky to some, but I figure it will be easily recognizable to others as well. Name the port and the specific location where this webcam was located.

 

 

 

I'm guessing it's Hythe Pier near the port of Southampton.

[bluemarble]

50 minutes ago, Ray66 said:

 

I'm guessing it's Hythe Pier near the port of Southampton.

 

That's correct. That angle almost makes it look like QM2 is docked there, but of course she is just sailing past on her way out of Southampton.

[bluemarble]

10 hours ago, Underwatr said:

May I play? 🙂

 

 

Welcome to the game, Underwatr.

 

That's outside Charlotte Amalie at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

I'm a bit puzzled as to while QM2 is at anchor. Were there so many ships there on this occasion that Havensight and Crown Bay were both full?

[bluemarble]

On 9/27/2020 at 4:29 AM, carlmm said:

One more for the classic question: Where in the world?

 

I'm been working on this one. I'll go for the ship spotting points and say that's QV and the tall ship is Sea Cloud. I've been comparing Sea Cloud's current itineraries to where QV has called in the past, but haven't come up with a match yet.

 

Maybe it's time for a hint on this one.

[carlmm]

44 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'm been working on this one. I'll go for the ship spotting points and say that's QV and the tall ship is Sea Cloud. I've been comparing Sea Cloud's current itineraries to where QV has called in the past, but haven't come up with a match yet.

 

Maybe it's time for a hint on this one.

 

You already got the bonus points for naming both ships!

I'll post  a full size photo of the Sea Cloud with a closer look to the town in question in the back ground.

[l2luv2cruise]

Is it Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

[carlmm]

19 minutes ago, l2luv2cruise said:

Is it Las Palmas de Gran Canaria?

 

Actually it's more than a couple of hundred of miles away.

[North West Newbie]

11 minutes ago, carlmm said:

 

Actually it's more than a couple of hundred of miles away.

 

So is it Funchal, Madeira?

[carlmm]

Just now, North West Newbie said:

 

So is it Funchal, Madeira?

 

Further away and neither Spanish nor Portugese speaking.

[exlondoner]

Is it Tangier?

[carlmm]

38 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Is it Tangier?

 No, sorry, it is not. (A little bit closer but not even half way.)

[sfred]

7 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Welcome to the game, Underwatr.

 

That's outside Charlotte Amalie at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

 

I'm a bit puzzled as to while QM2 is at anchor. Were there so many ships there on this occasion that Havensight and Crown Bay were both full?

 

I recall reading somewhere that QM2's draft is too deep for the Havensight facility at St. Thomas.  Perhaps Crown Bay was occupied, leaving the only alternative to anchor and tender. 

[Underwatr]

3 hours ago, sfred said:

 

I recall reading somewhere that QM2's draft is too deep for the Havensight facility at St. Thomas.  Perhaps Crown Bay was occupied, leaving the only alternative to anchor and tender. 

Every Christmas the itinerary for St. Thomas says "Tender Possible." This year one of RCCL's megaships occupied the Crown Bay berth that we usually moor at, so we were at anchor that day. It meant I had to cancel a planned scuba dive leaving out of Coki Pint across the island (couldn't guarantee an early enough tender) so instead I spent the day in Charlotte Amalie and took the sky ride for the view.

 

I have no idea about QM2's draft vs the depth at Havensight, but one data point is that there were no ships berthed at Havensight the day that we lay at anchor. 

 

 

This link says "Deeper draft ships such as Queen Mary 2... are required to dock at Crown Bay."
https://visitstthomas.com/cruise_ships.html

 

Edited September 29, 2020 by Underwatr