Going on a Cruise...No Knives Onboard...

I put my RAT 2 in my checked luggage when I went on a cruise a few years ago. They either didn't x-ray the bag or they missed it. I kept it in my pocket the rest of the cruise except when I went ashore. Couldn't carry it then because all reboarding passengers had to go through a metal detector. Put it bag in my checked luggage for the flight home.
 
killgar said:
I choose to be self-reliant in this world. I don't want to be dependent on others to fix every little thing. I don't limit myself to the limitations of others.
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Quote of the day, possibly the year.

I'm already "behind the curve" compared to most people, thanks to my disability. It's hard enough trying everyday to reach a "pleasantly average" place on the scale of self-reliance, much less, exceed that mark. I probably don't carry as many things as I could or should, but I try to carry whatever I can to negate my physical issues and bring me as close to self-reliant as I can.

Those who don't understand the value of self-reliance take for granted that they don't have to rely on the goodwill of others much.
 
For all of you who aspire to be as self-reliant as humanly possible in today's world, and I count myself as one, taking a vacation on a cruise ship has got to be the worse place on this planet to practice/assert your self-reliance. So for you folks (and me), the question of needing to bring a knife on a cruise ship is beyond silly.

It's like debating whether one should bring their ferro rod on a flight to New York because you never know if you'll need to start an emergency fire mid-flight for survival.
 
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One has to ask oneself an honest question. Is taking a cruise going to be the right kind of vacation being in the confines of a floating hotel without any land or beach? Perhaps being self reliant taking a vacation that includes or encourages this type of trait would be better than going on a cruise where one is at the mercy of the ship and the nannies who run it. Besides cruises are not so great when the power goes out on board.
 
I'd bring a small, inexpensive mutitool; carefully. ;)

I went on a cruise a few years ago and brought my Schrade Tough tool. It went through two international airports in my checked luggage then onto the boat without issue. Coming back from one of the islands we stopped at (eastern Caribbean) we got held up as we were boarding the ship as the 115 pound "security officer guy kept scanning my wife's bag and not saying anything to us.

He finally gestures to the bag (which was a clear plastic beach bag BTW) to open it and remove all contents so I grabbed it and basically dumped it on the xray scanner belt wherein the security dude starts going through everything.
At this point I was getting a bit worried as I had thought someone stuck drugs in our bag or some other contraband and didn't even think of the multitool I had dropped into the bag in the morning when we left. :rolleyes:

Finally, the security guy holds up the pouch between two fingers with the schrade tough tool in it as if it was some sort of nuclear device asking "what's this?" and I respond "a multitool". Confused; he calls up some back up to assess the situation. :foot:

The group of the three or four brain trust security spec op's team members deliberate and decide that pliers are not a threat, nor am I and let us on our way. The irony is that right behind them the entire time is signage saying that scissors with less than 6" blades are A-okay to come aboard but they gave us a hard time about a multitool with a 2 1/2" blade that is a beyotch to open even two handed.

I wish I had taken a picture of that sign and the security guy's face... :foot:;):D
 
I would either play by their rules, opt to take a chance with a SAK type knife, simply choose a different cruise line, or do something else for my vacation. I also tend to view cruise ships as floating hotels. My focus tends to be away from the hotel (on land) and not what activities or services are available in the hotel.
 
The one and only cruise I've ever been on was from Seward, Alaska to Vancouver, BC through the Inside Passage, before I ever became enamoured with steel. Just like what has been mentioned, the cruise line wouldn't allow anyone to carry anything sharp onto the ship. Even when we bought an Ulu to take back, they made us check it and then pick it up when we disembarked in Vancouver. Now that I'm a blade freak, I'm not sure if I would let that stop me from going on another cruise simply because we had a great time. But I don't blame anyone who would choose not to go on one for that reason.
 
My family and I went on a cruise a couple of years ago. Maybe I stuck a small SAK in the the case with my bathroom stuff, but I don't recall using it. Generally, on a well-run cruise ship (which this one was), if you need something, they'll get it for you. But everyone is entitled to take the vacations they enjoy. And if that involves leaving a material possession that I generally carry behind, then I leave it behind. I prefer not to be a slave to my material possessions or let them get in the way of having fun.
 
Well as you exit the dinning room on the cruise ship palm a knife off one of the dinning tables. Than you will feel warm, fuzzy, and secure. Epon the eend of cruise return the knife to the inventory by dumping it some where staff will find said knife. LOL
 
I went through this exact dilemma in August with my wife. She got mad because I wanted to carry a blade with me on the cruise, haha. I was really tempted to sneak one on with me, but I finally resisted the urge.
 
Cruise ships remind me of giant floating petri dishes these days. The last ship I was on was the SS Lurline in 1969, sailing back from Oahu to San Fran. What a great trip that was, right after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. We did indeed carry our SAKs back then....
 
sodak said:
Cruise ships remind me of giant floating petri dishes these days. The last ship I was on was the SS Lurline in 1969, sailing back from Oahu to San Fran. What a great trip that was, right after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. We did indeed carry our SAKs back then....
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It is a petri dish. I ended up with a head & chest cold that I'm still trying to shake. Sneezes that would blow a house down, etc. And I was washing my hands and using Purell religiously... SMH...
 
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It is a petri dish. I ended up with a head & chest cold that I'm still trying to shake. Sneezes that would blow a house down, etc. And I was washing my hands and using Purell religiously... SMH...
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This is just one of the many reasons I don't want to go on a cruise. Sanitation, especially bacteria in food and water handling. Lots of problems on cruises from this, I prefer not to have diarrhea, vomiting, or maybe worse during, and after my vacation. I just don't trust how they handle food, and other items, and when you are stuck on a boat with all those people, it would really suck.
 
I honestly, honestly can't understand why anyone would ever want to go on a cruise ship, when one stops and considers all of the problems that they have. Engine failure that kills the toilets, being besieged by pirates, and outbreaks of norovirus. What the **** is the big attraction of being an inmate aboard a floating prison for weeks on end?

If I wanted that kind of service, I'd get food poisoning and stay in a cheap motel in the city of Chicago.
 
I went to the Bahamas last March out of charleston, sc. Carnival cruise. There rule was you could bring a knife with a blade less than 4 inches. So I brought m little buck stockman and a tenacious. After reading over the rules tediously for three days to make absolutely sure, I brought both of them. When getting on the boat, the security people looked it over and told me if it had been a serrated model, I wouldn't be allowed to carry it. Then another time I was told that they wouldn't take it but I should leave it in my room. Apparently they didn't know their own rules. After all that, I caught the flu the last day. Go figure
 
Considering that the best defense for hijacking and bombing has been passengers themselves, I think it is pretty ridiculous "they" want to disarm us. Even more ridiculous is that we let them.

I flew in October 2001. There was a 60ish man in front of me arguing with security because they were confiscating his fingernail clippers. I thought "come on guy don't you know what just happened?" Thinking back, I should have spoken up. Finger nail clippers? Really? They were just doing that to make us feel safer. They should have been giving every willing and able person a baton or some such to enable us to defend ourselves. Are we the same nation that was founded in 1776?
 
This is where knife nuttery morphs into the range of stupidity. Sometimes we lack a little bit of perspective. We aren't called knifenuts for nothin'.
 
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