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Article: Cruise ship royalty ends a season Harbor master says 115 liners penciled in for 2010 Bar Harbor visits
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- November 4, 2009
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BAR HARBOR - The 2009 cruise ship season came to a close on
Sunday as Cunard's flagship vessel, the Queen Mary 2, weighed anchor
and glided out of Frenchman Bay under starry skies.
Charlie Phippen, Bar Harbor's harbor master, said the QM2's visit
was the 92nd and final cruise ship visit for 2009. There had been
more visits scheduled for this year's season, which runs from mid-
May to early November, but rough weather resulted in five of the
visits being canceled, he said. The five cancellations all were for
smaller ships that tie up to the end of the municipal pier.
The 92 visits is not a record, Phippen said Tuesday. Last year,
cruise ships stopped in Bar Harbor 97 times, he said. There had ...