Underwater hull of cruise ships

[Gerd]

Dear all,

 

the official HAL bloc at http://www.hollandamericablog.com/ shows on April 6th, 2009 an amazing nose-view of the MS Veendam during dry-dock.

 

But what is really astonishing for me is, from which small underwater portion of the ship-stricture those vessels get their stability. It is really unbelievable how they stay vertical even while sailing under strong wind and wave conditions….

 

The underwater part must me very heavy – I know there are the engines, fuel and water tanks and so on, but even with all this stuff, there is a lot out of water.

 

Following Captain’s Albert Web-Bloc, the vessel has 7,70 Meters / 25 Feet draft and sticks 40 Meters / 131 Feet out of the water.

This means, that only 16 % is under the water in elevation, and this part is meanwhile much, much smaller then the over-all hull-width, which is 30,90 Meters / 101 Feet !?! :o

 

 

 

Don’t worry, go sailing…..;)

 

 

 

Happy cruising to everybody

 

Gerd

 

 

 

 

Our marvelous cruises :

 

MS Ryndam – Wayfarer – March 1997

MS Noordam - Transatlantic Island Hook - April 2001

MS Volendam - Southern Caribbean - April 2002

MS Volendam - Westfarer Caribbean - April 2004

MS Prinsendam - Windmills & Waterford – September 2004

MS Westerdam - Western Caribbean - April 2005

MS Statendam - Hawaii Circle - September 2005

MS Rotterdam - Vikings and Czars – July 2006

MS Veendam - Southern Caribbean – March 2007

MS Volendam – Panama Canal – April 2008

 

116 days - 33'054 Nm

 

 

Future Cruise :

 

 

 

And already in our pipeline :

 

[Himself]

I found the photos of the both the VEENDAM and the OOSTERDAM to be interesting.

[AZjohn]

It’s all about displacing the water:p. But it is kind of amazing isn’t it;).

John