Yep, they have been darting back and forth from Bournemouth Bay for months - cheaper than being in port .
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Not enough room in the ports - they're spread Portsmouth to Plymouth.

Southampton is the main port and it can only take 4 ships, so they are rotating to refuel & stock up, then back out to anchor.

A strange sight though.

It reminds me of the Merchant Sea / dockers strike in the early 1960’s ? when all merchants ships returned to their home port .
Liverpool bay was absolutely full of ships, all at anchor. Quite a sight.

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Was surreal, ended up on the beach it looked as though the ships were a few hundred meters out, was cool to see the Q Mary 2, proper ocean liner!

Bit of calculation and IPhone theodolite use I worked out they were about 2km out!! There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Thanks for this post...
Spectacular...
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The business model requires them to work 365 days a year, how long before they sink their owners. letters not necessarily in the right order

I visited Maderia a couple of years ago and from up the hills looking down to the sea out from Funchal, cruise ships were lining up to enter the port as far as you could see. I think I counted 20 through binoculars.
Obviously VERY big business that is loosing Millions every day....Such a pity, I love seeing ships , but never been on a cruise.
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Southampton docks / cruise terminal deserted & very quite now without any ship horns going off.

a useful site if you want to see where the cruise ships are..

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Nice link, cheers

We have several of them rotating around Poole/Bournemouth bay, a very weird sight to have them so close inshore. I've taken the RIB across several times in the evenings to see them up close, but we never seem to get the Cunard Queens!