Carnival Elation Dry Dock

[BlerkOne]

is still scheduled for 1/21/23-2/10/23. I don't think they would spend the money on a dry dock if the plan wasn't to keep the ship for a while.

[chengkp75]

48 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

is still scheduled for 1/21/23-2/10/23. I don't think they would spend the money on a dry dock if the plan wasn't to keep the ship for a while.

If they want to continue to have her sail, they must have a dry dock by April, 2023.  What they do, outside of the statutory work, is another topic, but in order for the ship to sail beyond April, or to be able to be sold, they have to dock her.

[BlerkOne]

4 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

If they want to continue to have her sail, they must have a dry dock by April, 2023.  What they do, outside of the statutory work, is another topic, but in order for the ship to sail beyond April, or to be able to be sold, they have to dock her.

How often do they have to have a dry dock? The last one was during the pandemic (Mar 2020) and they added 30 cabins among other things.

[CruiseAdict218]

1 hour ago, BlerkOne said:

How often do they have to have a dry dock? The last one was during the pandemic (Mar 2020) and they added 30 cabins among other things.

Older ships have to go every 2-3 years, I think this time around is just general maintenance and probably to paint her blue. 

 

I think its still happening as Cruise Industry News reported so and Carnival probably would have said otherwise by now.

Edited January 13, 2023 by CruiseAdict218

[chengkp75]

1 hour ago, BlerkOne said:

How often do they have to have a dry dock? The last one was during the pandemic (Mar 2020) and they added 30 cabins among other things.

The statutory limit is 5 years, when the certificates of class are renewed.  The certificate of class requires a "bottom survey" twice in 5 years (so roughly 2.5 years).  Ships less than 15 years old can substitute an underwater survey for the "mid-period" docking, but on every multiple of 5 year anniversary of the ship starting service, it must have been dry docked within 3 months prior.  Once you let the dry dock date go beyond the anniversary, the certificate of class is no longer valid, and without this, the "Ship's Register" (think title) is no longer valid, the ship's insurance is no longer valid, and the ship is no longer allowed to leave port.  There are statutory inspections that need to be done in dry dock, the hotel renovations are merely done at the same time, due to the ship being out of service.  The statutory work involves inspecting all machinery below the waterline (rudders, props, pods, stabilizers, thrusters), inspecting tanks that are normally not accessible in service (fuel tanks, etc), x-ray inspections of welds around the hull, ultrasonic thickness tests of hull plating and framing, and a bunch of other work.