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Largest in this registry
#30,937
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#364
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 1 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Club Med 2 is a five-masted computer-controlled staysail schooner owned and operated by Club Med and operated as a cruise ship. It combines the power of seven computer-operated sails with more traditional diesel-electric power, having four diesel generators that power two electric motors. Club Med 2 was launched in 1992 in Le Havre, France. Her sister ship Club Med 1 was sold to Windstar Cruises and renamed Wind Surf in 1998.
The ship, one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, carrying up to 386 passengers with a crew of 214, sails the waters of the Mediterranean, Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea in the summertime and the Caribbean in the winter, finding her way into anchorages larger cruise ships cannot reach. Transatlantic voyages are offered in the spring (eastbound) and fall (westbound).
The ship provides ballroom dancing, bridge and music, and sails at night making a stop each morning. A water sports deck can be deployed from the stern.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 14,983 gross tons, Club Med 2 is the 30,937th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 2.5 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 364th by tonnage — larger than 28% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
France is the country of registry for 517 vessels in this directory, of which Club Med 2 is the 114th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (313 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,161 GT. Browse every ship flagged France.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 15 cruise ships flying the France flag, of which 3 are larger by tonnage.
Club Med 2 was built in 1992, making it 34 years old. It is one of 1,130 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,228 GT; within it this ship is the 289th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 36 vessels to Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, with a median tonnage of 8,522 GT, delivered between 1966 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 187.0 m overall, Club Med 2 is 11.1 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 20.0 m and a draft of 5.1 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9007491 this registry holds 68 other vessels, whose median build year is 1992 and which range from 1989 to 1996. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1992.
Its IMO number, 9007491, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 4×3 + 9×2 = 121 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| MS Salamis Filoxenia | 1975 | 15,402 |
| Voyager | 1990 | 15,396 |
| Hamburg | 1997 | 15,067 |
| Club Med 2 (this ship) | 1992 | 14,983 |
| Wind Surf | 1989 | 14,745 |
| MS Royal Iris | 1971 | 14,717 |
| M/S Cristal |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Club Med 2 on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Adrian Pingstone, reused under Public domain.
| 1980 |
| 14,330 |