The Bridge : QM2 in race with giant multihulls in 2017

[QE2forever]

A French project called "The Bridge 2017" will apparently feature Queen Mary 2 racing with giant multihulls on the Atlantic between Saint Nazaire (where she was built) and New York in June-July 2017, celebrating American military landings in France during the First World War in 1917, as well as jazz music and basketball...

http://www.thebridge2017.com/Page/Presse

The second link downloads the presentation in English.

[June Ingram]

Very interesting !

Time to get our QE2 out of mothballs !!

J.   

[Peter Mugridge]

My money would be on the multihulls getting across quicker...

[cunardqueen]

No dount the bean counters at Carnival HQ are already having nighmares about the extra fuel used for QM2 to keep up...

[Greg Rudd]

Very interesting !

Time to get our QE2 out of mothballs !!

J.   

Another  option would be to reactivate a certain ship mored in Philadelphia USA and finally open up her engines fully. Rotfl.

I suppose the multihull to beat will probably be from Incat (I'll be backing the little Aussie Battler)

[Bruce Nicholls]

Another  option would be to reactivate a certain ship mored in Philadelphia USA and finally open up her engines fully. Rotfl.

My money would still be on the multihulls.

[Hank Hargrove]

I'd say the QM2 could probably do the crossing in four days, and perhaps a little under four.

[Peter Mugridge]

I'd say the QM2 could probably do the crossing in four days, and perhaps a little under four.

I refer the honorable member to this earlier post upon that subject:

No dount the bean counters at Carnival HQ are already having nighmares about the extra fuel used for QM2 to keep up...

With that in mind, I would still put my money on the multihulls, even if they use one of the earlier series of Incats that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

[Hank Hargrove]

I refer the honorable member to this earlier post upon that subject:


With that in mind, I would still put my money on the multihulls, even if they use one of the earlier series of Incats that couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

Well put.

[QE2forever]

Participation of Queen Mary 2 to The Bridge race has been confirmed yesterday.

On 25 June 2017 she will sail from St-Nazaire, France, to New York. It will be her first return to her birthplace since she was built.

[skilly56]

Boiler & condenser corrosion, plus seized turbines, will ensure the SSUS will never steam on her original power plant again.
Skilly

[Roy Warrender]

Hi Skilly are the boilers and turbines still in the SSUS  I thought she was just a shell

[skilly56]

Hi Roy,

Hope all is well with you up there.

On YooTuube is a comprehensive video walkthrough of the machinery spaces, done a few years back - unfortunately I don't have  the link, but a search on youtube should turn it up.
If they had taken the machinery out I think she would have hogged like the Queen Mary by now.

Cheers
Tony

[Trevor Harris]

Hi Roy,

Hope all is well with you up there.

On YooTuube is a comprehensive video walkthrough of the machinery spaces, done a few years back - unfortunately I don't have  the link, but a search on youtube should turn it up.
If they had taken the machinery out I think she would have hogged like the Queen Mary by now.

Cheers
Tony

If a ship has her machinery out she is classified as a building.

[skilly56]

But buildings don't float.