MARINE DESIGN
M/V FREEWINDS
Restored brass clearview screens.
"To put it bluntly, they don't build ships like they used to." � Ludwig Alpers, Port Captain, M/V Freewinds
The original sound powered phone.
pleted in June 2009) was done parallel to the scheduled interior upgrades to the vessel and was much, much more a matter of man-hours and the elbow grease of the crew," said Alpers. "I can't even imagine what a project like this would have cost if it had been contracted out commercially. Every crew member onboard chipped in some time on the project." The challenges when embarking on any
ship renovation are numerous. "The most challenging thing was the requirement to `think outside the box. It required a lot of creation and new ideas on how to just take an ordinary piece of equipment and turn it into a show piece. You had to get away from the usual ideas of throwing some new paint on it and rather envision what it would look like with Stainless steel control levers and
sight glasses and a new stainless steel base," said the M/V Freewinds Naval Architect. While the ship and plan were indeed unique, Tomas Tillberg of Tillberg Design U.S. said that the age of the ship and the condition of the equipment didn't pose any specific problems, per se. "We did another ship along those lines years back � the QE2 � but nowhere near to these standards, to this level. I think the
challenges are pretty similar to the refits that we do on the other ships. You plan the best that you can, but you will always have surprises. The challenge, really, is to get her to the expectation of the owner." The expectation of the owner was to "Preserve the heritage of the ship and to make it look completely pristine" Another challenge was maintaining the operational aspects of the equipment
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