![]() ![]() Stainless steel also is used in many usually high-maintenance areas throughout the exterior of Royal Clipper, for instance on every exterior stairway, to eliminate rust. Other rope halyards at each mast form slanting rope ladders, or ratlines, that permit climbing up each mast as required for maintenance or for repairs or for passenger use. It is made of galvanized steel, fitted to adjustable stout placement at the rails opposite each mast, and also includes very strong Dacron ropes running straight up each mast to form the halyards that raise, lower and secure the staysails, jibs and the spanker with the invaluable help of electric and hand powered winches. The ship's Running Rigging is what gives support to each mast against sideways strain. Stainless Steel is used as the ultimate choice because it never rusts, lasts almost indefinitely at sea, weighs less than alternatives, and offers less wind resistance. The Standing Rigging is the primary support system for all the masts. This secures them to each other fore and aft, and links them firmly as a unit to the bowsprit and to the stern. Stainless Steel Standing Rigging : Binds all the masts to each other near or at their tops. (In retrofit, both Star Flyer and Star Clipper also in 2000 have been fitted out with stainless steel standing rigging to replace their galvanized steel previous standing rigging) It is the ultimate quality investment and of course is expensive initially. Rigging :- Few if any commercial sail ships ever have been fitted with stainless steel standing rigging before Royal Clipper. She is traditional in every way, updated with sea proven technology. She and her sister ships, Star Flyer and Star Clipper, are the only major true sail ships ever built on which no seaman ever needs to climb the masts to handle sails. All sails are raised, lowered and positioned from the security of the deck by skilled sailors who use power winches and hand controlled horizontal and vertical power furling. She does not use computers for sail handling. Sails: Royal Clipper always will be under sail at sea except when weather requires she be powered by her twin 2,500 horsepower diesel engines. Two tallest of the five masts are hinged so that mast tops may easily be cranked lower by 19 feet for clear passage under low bridges and power lines without interfering with the ship's standing rigging. Mast Height above the waterline: l97 feet. Number of Passengers: A total of 227 in double occupancy. ![]() The remaining 85 crew serve passenger needs or are on support duty, such as in engine room. Size of crew: 105, of whom only 20 are needed to handle all sails. Beam is 54 feet Draft is 18.5 feet Gross Tons: 5,000 (compares with 2,298 gross tons for sister ships, Star Flyer and Star Clipper). Royal Clipper has been built at Merwede Shipyard, near Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is registered out of Luxembourg and will operate under the respected high standards of the Belgian Maritime Authority. ![]() Classification and registration: Royal Clipper as flagship of Star Clippers joins Star Flyer and Star Clipper in being built to high safety, construction and rigging standards, confirmed by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.The steel-hulled vessel carries the highest rating possible: (Sailing Passenger Vessel) " spv 100 A1" and is designed to pass all safety and equipment ratings of the United Nations, and of U.S. She is by far the largest true sail vessel afloat anywhere today. Royal Clipper approximates Preussen in all major measurements. Fully rigged means squaresails on each of the masts. Preussen was the largest sailing vessel ever built to that time. SPECIFICATIONS SUMMARY ROYAL CLIPPER is the first fully-rigged square-rigger with five masts since her inspiration, PREUSSEN, in l902. To get to offical page click here Royal Clipper ![]()
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