Engineering:Wind Spirit (ship)

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Wind Spirit
History
Name: Wind Spirit
Owner: Windstar Cruises Ltd.[1]
Port of registry: Nassau,  Bahamas
Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, Le Havre, France
Launched: 13 July 1987[2]
Acquired: 24 March 1988[2]
Commissioned: April 1988[2]
Identification:
General characteristics
Type: Cruise ship
Tonnage: 5,307 GT[1]
Length: 134 m (439.63 ft)
Beam: 15.8 m (51.84 ft)
Draught: 4.1 m (13.45 ft)
Installed power: 3150 kW
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h)
Capacity: 148 passengers
Crew: 90

Wind Spirit is a motor sailing yacht, sailing as a cruise ship for Windstar Cruises. She is one of an unusual class of only three vessels (Wind Star, Wind Spirit and Wind Song), designed as a modern cruise ship but carrying an elaborate system of computer-controlled sails on four masts.

See also

  • List of large sailing vessels

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