Posted on April 15, 2010.
For the Amazon by the sea and the soul Day One
Royal Caribbean Crushed by 137,000 tons, double balcony metropolis, Enchantment of the Seas, docked in front of him, 180, 45 meters long, Royal Princess, sporting only one tenth of the vessel gross weight to 30,200 tonnes old, made 28.3 - molded feet wide, ten bridges, and housed 710 passengers and 340 crew members. The relatively small vessel would my floating home for the next two weeks and would connect by sea, the North and South American continents.
Powered by four diesel electric powered 13,500 kilowatts to 720 rpm, it featured two four-bladed, 750 kW bow thrusters, two of 19.4 square meters semi-balanced rudders, two square 9.9 meters stabilizers , and sailed between 18 and 20 knots.
Built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint Nazaire, France, in 2000, it was originally delivered as the Minerva II next year, but was reconfigured and renamed this in 2007 when Princess Royal Princess Cruise Lines had acquired.
Offers boarding and the purser's office was located on decks 3 and 4, respectively, but all the public rooms was on decks 5, 9 and 10. The first was the Lounge Cabaret at the casino bar, the Photo Gallery, shops, art gallery, restaurant and club and bar, while Deck 9 sported spa, hairdresser, central fitness, games room, the pool bar, the pool itself, the grill, pizzeria and buffet Panorma. The Royal Lounge, directly above the bridge 10, was followed by the cafed, the fitness trail, the library, the Sterling Steakhouse and Sabatini Trattoria.
Releasing its moorings in 1705, the 30,200 ton Royal Princess maneuvered his berth of the port through the thrusters in the wake of the Enchantment of the Seas cramped, dark blue Intracoastal Waterway, Port Everglades thresholding powder under a blue sky, and then began a gradual decline, starboard bow behind the cruise ship forest a speed of four knots.
Clearing the rocky breakwater embankment thin pencil at a speed of 15 knots for 30 minutes after starting the engine, the ship apparently landed his yacht and local drivers took a degree section 082. Enchantment of the Seas had herself off the corner forward, starboard side to begin its Eastern Caribbean itinerary.
The silhouettes indistinguishable from Ft Lauderdale, now six miles behind the stern and further inhibited by the blinding sun hovering behind them, fell in the distance, the last vision of North America.
The Club Restaurant, the Princess Royal main place to eat on the deck 5, had been decorated with dark wood and upholstered in red suede and featuring a bar, small round tables and a marble fireplace simulated at its entrance while the main dining room itself sported windows on several floors at the rear. The first dinner at sea had included Cabernet Sauvignon, a terrine of lobster and seafood in the emulsion of mustard dill, and cheese tortellini soup with spinach, watercress, red radish, iceberg lettuce and covered with blue cheese vinaigrette, asparagus and pencil barramundi with brown butter, lemon herbed Israeli couscous, a perfect banana nut caramel sauce and coffee.
The sun, an orange concentric circle, was slightly toward the western horizon, where it had sunk in the future, making the sky bright black stars. Parallel to the starboard side by two lighted silhouettes from Port Everglades megaliners, Royal P.