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Cruise Ships Galore Head for the Maine Coast
An armada of cruise ships will make 180 port visits and bring many thousands of tourists – and lots of money – to coastal Maine ports this year. Leading the fleet will be the largest and costliest cruise ship ever built, QUEEN MARY 2, which will call in Bar Harbor Sept. 27 and Portland Oct.
No Balmy Breezes for Portland’s Cruise Ship
Far from the hot sun and warm waters of Florida and Mexico, M/V SCOTIA PRINCE, last year’s “Yucatan Express,” is hibernating in chilly Portland. Scotia Prince Cruises’ car ferry/ cruise ship carried passengers and vehicles last winter between Tampa and two Yucatan Peninsula ports, Progreso and Morelos, until channel problems at Morelos forced suspension of
Taking the watery short-cut to Canada
The marine weather forecast we saw on television as we packed for our cruise to Nova Scotia said seas in the Gulf of Maine would be five to eight feet and an east wind would blow at 30 to 40 knots. But, we’d looked forward to the trip for months and so this detail didn’t