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From the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.

And I'm Doug Parker. Make sure you hook up with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, all at cruiseradio.

On this show, we're going to talk to the captain and hotel director of the Queen Victoria as it made its maiden visit to Port Canapril. She is a gorgeous chef, too. Yeah, you were down there, Doug. Yeah, there was a plaque and key ceremony down there, followed by a great luncheon. We're also going to talk to a couple of doctors who have invented golf balls made out of lobster shells.

It's genius because it's quite environmentally friendly, especially for the passengers hitting golf balls off cruise ships. But first, Stuart Sheron, the cruise guy is with us. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. All right, let's get right to it. Windstar Cruises is being sold. First of all, who's going to buy, and will it affect current and future sailings? They're being bought by Whippoorwill Associates, which is a White Plains, New York-based investment firm, for an undisclosed sum. But the good news is that they intend to operate all of Windstar's current cruises as schedules and

maintain essentially the company, the customer programs and policies and charters as is.

We have some breaking news from Disney Cruise Lines, I understand.

Yeah, we just heard that Disney allegedly, because nothing's been confirmed yet,

but the Houston newspapers are claiming that

Disney Cruise Line will announce on Wednesday morning that Disney Magic will set sail from Galveston,

so this will make the fifth ship, fifth cruise ship to be sailing out of Galveston in 2012.

I got to tell you, that's a real shocker.

Yeah, is there going to be enough docks there? Well, you know, depending on which days, you know, all five ships are leaving

from, but considering that 80% of all the cruise passengers that depart from Galveston are sourced

from Texas, so this will put quite a strain to fill a fifth big ship during the winter-spring season.

So, you know, five shifts.

It's a lot of beds to fill, and, you know, hopefully, you know, the surrounding areas.

But, you know, I'm kind of surprised.

Disney chose Galveston over, let's say, you know, Miami or Fort Lauderdale.

Yeah, and moving on, the Central Florida here, we've had some bad storms here lately,

and I understand last Wednesday the Carnival Pride got ripped away from the dock at Port Canaveral

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