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February 09, 2007
Majesty of the Seas
This is a good story for a Friday. Earlier this week GoogleSightseeing.com had a feature about a bizarre sighting in Google Earth of a "miniature" (33 meters long) cruise ship found in the driveway of a home in France. It turns out a retired coal miner, by the name of Francois Zanella, has earned quite a bit of notoriety by building a 1/8th scale model of the "Majesty of the Seas" cruise ship in the form of a French canal boat. That's right, he has since launched the boat for going up and down the canals. Read the full story here. He even contacted the builders of the real cruise ship and was given a tour of the real ship by the Captain himself. He was featured on a French TV show while he was building and launching the vessel. Anyway, you can see the scale model 
in his driveway here, and you can also see the real Majesty of Seas in the Miami harbour. Nice write-up James and Alex!
Posted by FrankTaylor at February 9, 2007 01:11 PM
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Posted by: Gaby at February 9, 2007 02:02 PM
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This man is just incredible. He built it alone with help from people who worked on the real one (in Saint Nazaire).