A Modest Proposal for Royal Caribbean

[Joanandjoe]

Why should Royal Caribbean stop with ships of a mere 220,000 tons and 5,400 PAX? We propose creation of the Royal Caribbean Stadium series of ships. They could take a stadium full of sports fans, put in some tiny staterooms, and float the whole thing. You'd not only get a large ship: you'd have people who all have at least one thing in common: the team they root for. Imagine the competition among sports venues: will the first ship be the 110,000 PAX "MS U of Michigan". or the smaller, only 55,000 "MS Yankee Stadium"? The new ships could dock at cities along the coast lines, with sports games played at each stop.

Crazies are creative, so we're sure there will be some great suggessions for ships in this new category.

Surely there must be some limit to the "bigger is better" syndrome.

[KeithnRita]

The newest venue ship, RCL's Mammoth of the Seas, was unveiled today, with scheduled 500 mile cruises off the coast of North Carolina beginning in 2010. The ship will contain a 1/2 mile high banked oval race track that will hold 100,000 race/cruise fans for the inaugural NASCAR race, The Atlantic Good Ole Boys 500. The infield will hold all the 18 wheel car haulers of the race teams and the Clydesdale Beer Wagon. Once the 42 cars are lined up to take the checked flag, car 42 will actually be in first place. The ship's verandah cabins are designed to resemble cab over travel trailers complete with canvas awnings, lawn chairs, barbecue grills, and coolers.

[JoeyandDavid]

if your listening RCCL...pay attention

[Joanandjoe]

Keith & Rita, how silly of us not to realize that the first Stadium Class RCCL ship will be a NASCAR track. In honor of the origin of NASCAR (moonshine runners*), the ship will be the Still of the Seas.

Joey, they're not listening, they're counting their money. They'll probably fill the ships.

* BTW, for those of you who are NASCAR fans, that really is the origin of stock car racing. The moonshiners added bigger and bigger motors to their standard cars to escape the law, then started racing on dirt tracks, and that led to today's NASCAR. This isn't a joke or a put down, it's what actually happened.

[eagleforest]

In fact read about Junior Johnson … A "Fairly Successful" Legend .

It was on TV not too long ago.

I thought that there maybe a motorcross venue on the new ships.

Complete with world class dirt track Monster truck excursions

RCCL will supply guestsMonster truck

Also the third new shipSCUBA dive shipDeck 17..Deck 18Keel to smokestackdive 240 feet onboard

This ship is designed for those divers that are afraid of fish. The new TUBES diving center will allow divers to spend an entire day 24 hours in the water.

Be the first to sail the new century of ships coming to a port near you.

[KeithnRita]

The second car I ever owned was a 49 Ford bought down in Muhlenberg Co., Ky. It had a flat head 8 cylinder motor and the trunk was welded shut with a built in moonshine tank. It was pretty worn out when I got it and had a couple bullet holes in the passenger side door.

[eagleforest]

The worlds largest ship is:the king of these crafts is the oil tanker Jahre Viking, which logs in at 1,503 feet long226 feet wide.565,000 tons

Now if Royal Caribbean can beat this they will have the market.

This even beats the Stadiium ship. This is the Congo Fleet

[SKAOLboy]

Due out next year is RCCL's venture with the NHL, dubbed Puck of the seas.

This mammoth will fit over 25,000 drunken fans, and 4 NHL teams. insted of the traditional boat, RCCL's designers came up woth a totally oval boat, with TWO hockey rinks.

the idea of this boat came after the NHL spread to more and more southern states, and as one nashville preditors fan said " why dun der chasin' dat critter, must be der lunch!" where apperntly hockey hasn't quite caught on. so the idea was for most of the southern teams to board, and play there games aboard a new ship... breathing new life into cruising, but also intrest in hockey in general.

when asked why the NHL is moving in this direction, all the manager of th NHL said was " isn't the ocean, one big un-frozen hockey rink?"

skaolboy,

channel 7 news.

[eagleforest]

I say a 14 story water park to give Wet and Wild a run for their money.

And for those children that are misbehaving. A trap door that lands in the

[mysticks1]

I like the idea of a hockey game on a cruise ship as I personally love the game and do completely understand it. Being from the deep South I would hope that your post just contains grammatical and typographical errors and that you are not making fun of our wonderful Southern way of speaking. :cry:

Speaking of futuristic cruise ships though you all might want to take a look at this site which shows a ship which is currently on the drawing board of a shipbuilder in France. It is called the Jules Verne.

http://www.marine.alstom.com/home/Pr...ovative/jules/