MUMBAI, INDIA (BOMBAY) DAY II (3/28/2007)

From: Sherman Rootberg (BiggiRoot)
Date: Mar 28, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

MUMBAI, INDIA (BOMBAY) DAY II

We did lots of nothing today. I was too sick to even go out of the room for meals.

We were supposed to leave the dock at 4:30 this afternoon. Some tours that were not back by then were supposed to be tendered to the ship. That would have been a mess because there was a lot of luggage. We were able to stay until about 5:30.

As we left we went by the QE II. She is the very last of her kind. It has different class floors and rooms. Elevators do only two floors because you are not allowed on different class floors then you paid for. Most ships do 20 to 25 knots maximum. The QE II does 30 knots and has a V bottom to the hull. It is the last of the deep draft cruise ships. All others now have flat bottoms for shallow draft but they do not ride nearly as well in very rough seas.

As we went by the captain asked for everyone to be out on decks to wave goodbye. The two ships played their horns at each other and we had to do a 180 degree turn to leave the harbor. The QE II has a very unique horn. None other sounds the same.