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If you were driving in downtown DC this past weekend, and you saw a very large object that look like a cruise ship; you were probably right!!
Yes, that was a cruise ship docked at The Wharf on D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront Sunday, and it is the first time since the 1950’s a cruise ship has called on D.C.
That cruise ship was a new ship called the American Constitution and it made a stop in Downtown D.C. on it’s 11 day voyable out of Baltimore
The Wharf’s largest dock can handle cruise ships up to 400 feet in length — a good-sized ship, but not big enough for megaships such as Carnival Cruise Lines; Royal Caribbean; Norwegian and other large ship lines; there is no room to turn the megaships around and the clearance of the Wilson Bridge is not wide enough.
Monty Hoffman, with The Wharf development team Hoffman-Madison, said he wouldn’t call cruise-ship destination “a primary use” of The Wharf — “I don’t want too much of a good thing, if you will. We like having them come in, but I’m not pushing it too hard either.”
So, Baltimore, Miami, Orlando, San Juan and other destinations that dock Cruise Ship, we’ll continue to fly to your city to embark on the greatest vacations known to mankind.
