Tallink Shuttle (week 26/08)
Posted in Helsinki on Jul 1st, 2008 No Comments »
In good old days, when most of the cruising ships headed out to Stockholm instead of Tallinn, ships used pretty traditional (and dull) colors. All Viking Line ships were red and white and Silja Lines had blue on white background.
In last couple years, Tallink has brought bunch of new ships to Helsinki-Tallinn route and these new ships have some pretty wild colors on them. Some of them are green, like this one, at least one of them has white clouds on light blue background and one has purple starts on white background.
I haven’t found any particular favorite among those, but I don’t think that is what Tallink was even looking for. Whenever new Tallink cruise ship shows up in horizon, I stop to wonder, what the heck is that and this is probably the effect that they’ve been looking for.
In case someone is interested about numbers, Tallink Superstar is 175.1 meters long, 27.6 meters wide. It can transport 2080 passengers, some cars and it has 186 cabins. Top speed is 27.5 knots and it travels from Helsinki to Tallinn in two hours.
Technical details: Canon EOS 40D & Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro (1/1000s, f/8, ISO200)
