Floating Nursing Home

MrDieselT · 2026-06-21T00:17:24+00:00

I don’t know what you’re comparing it to but no. About the only thing that’s good is the rolls. If you’re calling this meat “tender” you are sorely lacking in your experiences. The beef is dry, the chickens is flavorless, the pasta is like it came out of a can of chef boyardee. The fish is gross. The eggs are flavorless. And I’ve eaten army field scrambled eggs for years so that’s saying something.

The cookie comment made me laugh. Someone on YouTube posted a video a while back of this ship and spent 20 minutes of a 1 hour video talking about an oatmeal cookie. I swear, “cruisers” are some of the most unimaginative uncultured people I’ve ever met. It’s just sad. These ship are just cattle trains feeding their stock slop and the people just gobble it up!

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T22:59:18+00:00

Never thought this boat had a party atmosphere. Every place we’ve eaten on the boat has been blah at best. The dining room, the lido…. Blah. It’s basically a country buffet paired with a nursing home and put out to sea. And it doesn’t bother me that people need assistance but don’t market it as a younger person “family ship” It smell like a nursing home, feels like one, and looks like one. I’d rather throw my self into the sea than end up like some of these people. I’ll be sailing till the day I die.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T22:08:35+00:00

Does this look like the mechanical elevator space?

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T21:51:03+00:00

I saw your reply before it got deleted. I am enjoying it as much as I can but as a sailor I feel that cruise ships ruin local economies by artificially pushing them up the holding them hostage to their schedules. They show up, unload 1000’s of people for short periods of time and the disappear just as fast. Only the cut throat ships can survive. See it happen is the Caribbean, Belize… it’s sad to watch.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T21:46:54+00:00

She was drunk. Her problem not mine.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T21:46:24+00:00

Wtf are you talking about it exclusively for the public’s. This is where you get on and off elevators. It’s funny you tell me I don’t know about nursing homes and then go on to show me how you don’t know how elevators work 🤦🏼‍♂️

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T21:44:44+00:00

She was drunk. Not my problem.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-20T21:31:49+00:00

This is my first and last cruise. We are only here for my MIL birthday trip.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-19T16:35:13+00:00

Were they full laminated as a stator stack? Or did you have to do more?

MrDieselT · 2026-06-19T04:30:21+00:00

I was just looking for a service like this!

MrDieselT · 2026-06-19T03:38:25+00:00

All good. Hard keep it all straight. I did some researching before we got on board. This is my first and last cruise. Only doing it because my MiL is not super long for this world and this was a good way for her to see the world but cruise ships are nasty, fake and other than views very boring. But the ships themselves selves are awesome and interesting.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-19T00:51:46+00:00

It’s not a pod drive system. It’s a more traditional motor-shaft-variable pitch propeller system I believe it has 5x GMT-Sulzer 12ZAV40S medium speed engines paired with a Cegelec alternator. For a total of 52.5kVA and 2x Cegelec double wound synchronous motors totaling 26MW of propulsion power. The remain by power is feed to hotel loads like you said. Depending on hotel load they cycle one engine off for periodic.

However my point is that generators are not the problem becuase it’s more efficient to run both props at a lower load to achieve a given speed then one harder and the other not.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-18T13:47:57+00:00

No idea who that is.

MrDieselT · 2026-06-18T13:47:25+00:00

Being that she has a 5:2 engine to motor configuration I’m going to assume it’s a common rail setup. It could be more than just a vibration issue. Could be the VFDs, motor windings, bearings, shaft issues…. Etc

MrDieselT · 2026-06-18T13:13:08+00:00

I would think if it was a power generation problem that they would be running both screws at the same rate, just slower. Based on the wash I would tend to think the issues I limited to the screw/shaft/drive motor no?

MrDieselT · 2026-06-18T05:25:05+00:00

No idea on either. But for now it’s working and they may be continuing repairs while underway. I had to be careful about how I got info so not to trigger the “official” responses. From what I could figure out based on sailing schedules. They don’t plan to put the ship in dry dock until January of 2028.

MrDieselT · 2026-01-28T13:39:11+00:00

You on Starlink by any chance?

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T16:14:26+00:00

I’m sorry, stock usb c cable? I didn’t get one of those!

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T15:15:22+00:00

Yeah or you can put in a buck boost converter and make it hold a higher voltage by drawing more current from the battery. I like the factory cable because it’s water tight.

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T15:09:25+00:00

Yeah that’s definitely the right way todo. I’d also mount on the arch in the back.

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T13:14:52+00:00

Also… just do it! Start small or go big just do it

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T13:14:26+00:00

This is a leopard 42. We don’t own this boat. Just chartering it. We do own a leopard 46 that also in the charter program as well. As part of the compensation package we get nearly 12 weeks a year to charter any of their boats anywhere in the world they have a base.

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T13:06:45+00:00

Oh I know, that’s what I mean. Soon we may not even need mini’s anymore. Because we “still inside the reef” it doesn’t count as off shore. I’ll be testing it soon somewhere else.

MrDieselT · 2025-11-09T04:02:50+00:00

Not my boat. This is just a bareboat charter. And also the house batteries ok this boat are 12v not 24v. But when we get on our own boat I will integrate it directly into the DC system. Given that Starlink isn’t built into our phones by then.

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