70000 Tons of Metal (officially stylized as 70000TONS OF METAL) is an annual heavy metal music festival that takes place on board a cruise ship. The event is a five-day festival, including one shore day at a select Caribbean destination. read more…
The Albatros – previously Dagmar Larssen, Iris Thy and Esther Lohse – is a three-masted topsail schooner belonging to the “Clipper” club and is used for trips with young people and older sailors. The sailing ship with the relatively high jibboom mainly sails in the German and Danish Baltic Seas. Every year it is moored at Ring-Andersen in Svendborg for winter maintenance work, which is largely carried out on a voluntary basis. read more…
Santa Maria Manuela is a Portuguese four-masted schooner. Originally a codfish fishing ship, Santa Maria Manuela is now used for sail training, hands on sailing holidays, environmental expeditions and team development programs. It belongs to Grupo Jerónimo Martins and is the sistership of the Portuguese Navy‘s Creoula. It’s one of the last ships of the former Portugese “Frota Branca/White Fleet”. read more…
AIDAbella is a cruise ship operated by AIDA Cruises. Built at Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, she is a sister ship to AIDAdiva and AIDAluna. The ship has a passenger capacity of over 2,050. The name AIDAbella was chosen after a competition to name the new ship. The name was meant to signify how beautiful the ship is. Her homeport is Genoa in Italy. read more…
MSY Wind Surf is a five-mast staysailschooner that is one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, with two electric propulsion motors powered by four diesel electric generating sets also. She can carry up to 342 passengers, in a total of 150 ocean-view staterooms, 18 ocean-view suites and 2 deluxe bridge suites, with a crew of 210. Wind Surf had been owned and operated by Club Med under the name Club Med 1, and was later transferred to Windstar Cruises. read more…
