It won’t be long now! Seabourn Odyssey launches this June, and she looks like she’s almost ready to get going.

Many veteran cruisers specifically choose cruises that provide at least a few days at sea. Seabourn Odyssey will be a great choice for the sea-loving  cruiser who craves that languorous feeling of lazy leisure. There will be loads of on board activities during those days, including a great game of bridge. Odyssey has a beautifully designed card room on Deck 7, forward of Seabourn Square.  And Seabourn has teamed up with one of the biggest names in the game to bring top-flight instructors aboard to teach and supervise tournaments. Audrey Grant is the dynamic force behind the Audrey Grant Better Bridge series of books, TV shows, lectures and the Better Bridge magazine. She works with the game’s best theorists to ensure that her materials are up-to-date and authentic. Along with many-time world champion Eric Rodwell, she is the author of “2 over 1 Game Force,” a manual on the popular variation of Standard American Bidding methods. Audrey Grant herself will be instructing on Odyssey’s Maiden Voyage departing Venice on June 24. And thereafter instructors from her group will be on voyages of ten or more days’ duration which include at least three days at sea.

Something for the bridge enthusiasts on the 2010 World Odyssey to look forward to!

Evening entertainment on Seabourn Odyssey will follow the pattern on board Seabourn’s existing yachts: lots of variety and a range of styles and atmospheres to match any mood. From piano stylings up at the Observation Bar to lively music that will keep dancers in The Club on their feet, guests can choose how they want to spend their evenings, or migrate from one mood to the next.  (more…)

Seabourn Sojourn

As Seabourn Odyssey is being prepared for her maiden Voyage in just a few short weeks, the second sister is also “coming of age” over at San Giorgio di Nogaro. If you recall, the hull segments are built in two halves and then set on barges and taken to a place called Rijeka in Croatia where they can be joined into one sleek hull. This week, the front half of Seabourn Sojourn’s hull was finished and carefully loaded onto a semi-submersible barge for the trip to Rijeka. (more…)

Seabourn Odyssey

Just about 11 weeks to go until the launch of Seabourn Odyssey, and the work is progressing at top speed. Just look at this new picture with both funnel hoods in place and the protective tarps stripped off the verandas along the port side. You can clearly see the sleek bloodlines of a thoroughbred Seabourn yacht. (more…)

But this is all true, I promise. Yet another enhancement has been added to Seabourn Odyssey’s profile. The distinctive vaned funnel has been mounted on the port side and the “skyline” of Seabourn Odyssey starts to look really familiar. You can also see the main mast in proportion to the rest of the yacht, so it looks different than it did in our earlier post about that being mounted.  It’s getting closer every day!