European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Quot no it a ii�s2ssst"l i while in Harbor background Only one of club med is seven High sails is up. Here passengers disembark at Les saints near Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. H Rte a f a Tail party. When the ships program decreed Gant dress for dinner some put their Best foot Ard in jogging sneakers. Use ship veterans spoiled by big name Las As acts on other ships were Only moderately ant of the nightly Amateur musicals staged by exuberant staff in the superbly equipped Ter. For club med addicts the beachcomber by was blurred a bit by using credit cards lad of beads to barter for drinks in the five bars Jere was a Bridge instructor on duty in the card 1, but in deference to a younger More Active ing clientele there were no shuffleboard Bingo Aeple Chase races. Bring the Winter season the club med sails the bean out of Guadeloupe. In the summer it will be the Mediterranean out of Ville Franche on the cd Riviera. Signed by architect Francois Xavier Poylo and Jin be Havre France the $100 million ship is 3d by three French Banks and leased to club land service it transport a shipping firm for sewn years with an option to buy. 1617-feet, it is not the largest ship with sails in Fry. The great Eastern nearly a Century and a ago was 60 feet longer had propellers the size in Mills and stationed a bugler at the top of the Anion Way to summon her 4,000 passengers to or. A failure in the passenger Trade she found As a giant sea spider spinning out the Atlantic second mate Heidenreich a sailing Buff cites the to ship Thomas Lawson plying the Maine coast the turn of the Century. Quot she had seven masts named for a Day of the it is ship s top Speed of 14 knots with an assist j four diesel powered electric turbines is wish compared with the great Clipper ships like Sark and flying Cloud which fully rigged with Jils rushed forty liners around the Horn to the Ornia Gold Rush at 20 knots. It her creature comforts Are a far cry from what 1 med offered poor French students and of toning secretaries at its first tent Village on Fra 40 years ago. It Leppones to hair dryers mini bars King sized Beds and Matisse prints Grace the 204 Cabins decorated by Alberto Pinto who did Gucci offices in Milan and a yacht for Prince Khaled of saudi Arabia. There Are two dining salons two outdoor pools a Casino a Beauty parlor Sauna and a duty free boutique. Alas the tradition of a ship s Library has shrunk to a Bookcase of paperbacks. With a draft of Only 15 feet this High tech windjammer can visit smaller islands and lonelier beaches. A Boulder strewn Cove called Quot the Baths on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin islands was scorned As Quot too commercial Quot because its Pristine Sands were interrupted by a Beer tent and a stall Selling to shirts. On St. Thomas the Beach was already occupied. By a few thousand sailors from the . Aircraft Carrier Enterprise enjoying their first Shore leave in six months. The exotic combination of a new five masted cruise ship anchored in the same Harbor with a nuclear powered Carrier begged the question of Why this return to sail in the atomic age. When Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the United nations a year and a half ago a soviet Trade fair in new York exhibited models of a new generation of freighters with auxiliary sails. Two other computerized sailing ships about a third smaller Are already in the cruise Trade and More Are on the drawing Board. Quot this is not a romantic gimmick Quot insists Lambert. Quot under sail the ship is quieter More comfortable for passengers. She Rolls less. There is no vibration. With Normal Power we use 20 tons of Marine diesel in 24 hours. Under full sail with our four generators also going we use 7 tons. If the wind is from the starboard our computer directs the exhaust fumes off to the port Side. Quot even when there is very Little wind the sails give us an extra 2 knots Speed and every owner knows the last 2 knots Are the most the great Clipper ships required a Crew of 130 to wrestle with acres of Canvas. Stretching 2,990 Square Yards of Dacron club med s latter Day descendant needs Only 35 officers and seamen. Quot not counting our most versatile hand the computer Quot adds the Captain. A skipper Alain Lambert at the computer console on the Bridge of the worlds largest sailing vessel club med i while cruising the . Virgin islands. The stars and stripes a a a Page 15
