[Jolly Amaranto]

I have been on a few. I have lately been gravitating to the smaller ships. The BIG humongous tubby ships have just too many damn people for me. The last one I went on had around 300 passengers and the next one planned will be about 200. Small ports of call that are not overrun by tourists, plenty of booze, excellent food, attentive crew and OK entertainment if you are into that. My wife and I do not get sea sick so weathered some real heavy seas in the past. Once in the Mediterranean and then in the Tasman. The Med was the roughest during a short storm that seemed to come out of nowhere. The passage between New Zealand and Melbourne had huge swells coming up from Antarctica that put most folks in their cabins driving the "Porcelain Bus".