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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2010

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Stewart Chiron the Cruise Guy talks to us about his recent trip to Germany to board the Celebrity Eclipse.

Nancy Rubin of the Jacksonville Port Authority talks to us about the economic output cruise ships have in our local ports.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:11.2	From the Cruise One Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:14.7	And I'm Doug Parker.
0:15.6	Be sure to follow us on Twitter at Cruise Radio.
0:17.5	Also, subscribe to our newsletter for some cool behind-the-scenes stuff and so much more at cruise radio.net. You can also subscribe to our show there or on iTunes. If you didn't know, the cruising industry brings in millions to the local economy and has a ripple effect throughout the whole region. Nancy Rubin, director of communications for the Jacksonville Porn Authority, will be joining us. The first Ste, you're on. The Cruise Guy, is here. You can find him at
0:38.9	cruise guy.com or follow him on Twitter at Cruise Guy or call 800, 700, 381. He just got
0:45.6	back from Germany, got a sneak peek at the brand new celebrity eclipse. Welcome back, my friend.
0:51.9	Guys, it's great to be here, and it was actually pretty exciting because they called
0:56.1	Monday afternoon telling us that instead of leaving Wednesday, we're leaving on Tuesday.
1:00.7	Can we still go?
1:02.4	So we did make the adjustments.
1:05.2	We flew into, you know, Dusseldorf, Germany, took the bus to Poppenberg, and when we got off the ship, we went into
1:12.5	one of the buildings, and they surprised us with the cutting of the first piece of steel for
1:19.0	Solstice 4, which has been named Silhouette. Oh, cool. Right, right, right. Stuart, real quick,
1:25.0	what goes on at a steel cutting ceremony?
1:28.8	Well, it's actually a button.
1:29.4	Yeah.
1:33.1	So in this case, Dan Hanran pressed, the president of celebrity, pressed a button.
1:39.1	And on the other side of the wall, there was a big steel cutting machine.
1:40.1	Circular saw. A flat piece of steel.
1:43.0	And the steel cutter just immediately started cutting, you know, cutting
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