Episode 4: How I Sea It; How do you "drive" a mega cruise ship? 

Brilliant explanation Captain! I am an experienced Master Mariner myself, and despite having been on and around the water for nearly 40 years, have never been able to explain all of these elements so succinctly! Love the program for giving the Junior Officers 'Hands On' experience, something that was never afforded to me while working my way up. And the Maneuvering Support Animal ! ! Fantastic, Well Done !

Captain Kate, awesome presentation. I am a licensed Pilot (airplanes) and I agree that you never forget your first, in our case a solo flight. I can only imagine the satisfaction it is to sussefuly maneuver a giant ship like the Edge.

That was phenomenal! I especially like how you have that "Hands-on" approach to leadership by ensuring that all Junior Officers are fully trained and capable to assume their own Command one day.

Captain McCue, you have my utmost respect and admiration. We sailed onboard the Edge during the last week of January 2020. Your ship and crew delivered a wonderful experience for us just before the world travel industry came face to face with Covid 19. My wife and I have been Celebrity Cruise guests many times over the last 23 years since our 25th anniversary cruise to Alaska. We hope to see you again very soon.

To be coming up in the ranks under your leadership would be a real privilege. The way you support your staff and give them opportunities to grow their skills is amazing 😊

I was on the Queen Mary in the late 70's as a waiter for one day. It was an incredible experience just to be on that huge ship for a few hours. Now, to see Captain Kate and the great job she and her team do, wow!!! Respect for the profesionalism all of you display!!! And... I envy you!

Kate, we cruised with you in March 2019 as we were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. I saw you a couple times on board engaged with your staff and wanted to take a picture with you. I didn't get the chance as I didn't want to be a disruption in your busy day. We enjoyed the cruise and Celebrity cruise line hospitality from your staff! Thanks!

When your favorite captain makes a RU-vid channel🤩 Love from Mass Maritime!

Love the video, captain! Celebrity’s officers are incredible. I love how many technological parallels there are with my field of aviation.

I absolutely LOVE this video!! Although completely unrelated, I spent 8 years in the U.S. Air Force as a Navigator. Many years ago I received a "VIP" bridge tour of one of your amazing ships in Fort Lauderdale. It was absolutely incredible!!! Thank you for sharing.

She is a true pro. Thanks for the great explinations and sneek peaks at how these massive vessels are operated! Getting to see the controls up close is really neat for sure!

Thanks Captain Kate, we'll be one of your passengers next year. Cruised Celebrity many times so I know a bit about the ships but love this Captain's view on things. All that work to keep us safe and happy is very much appreciated.

Thank you so much Captain Kate for starting this RU-vid channel. It is giving all of us diehard cruise fans an inside look at things we always wondered about. You are simply the best!

This is such a great idea to open up the ships functions to the sailing public. I have personally Sailed with Captain Kate 3 times and she is the best master of the ship I have encountered on my many cruises. I haven’t met Bug yet but I hope to soon.

Captain Kate, Very cool, thank you for making this video of how you “Drive” the ship! Very interesting! Ken

I love that you do something cool like get a licence plate when someone celebrates a first!

FASCINATING!!!! As a BIG "behind the scenes" guy, this stuff is so fun to learn about...and you make it sound so easy!!!!

Clear and concise. Thanks, Captain Kate. I find myself periodically binge watching your videos. Always informative while entertaining. I continue to stand in awe of your work. You are a model to every one of professionalism and commitment. When I say everyone, I mean everyone. The skills you have honed over the years is daunting. I think we are quickly approaching the mark in time when gender shock can be released to stories in history books. Competency doesn't seek gender. Professionalism doesn't ask for anything other than knowledge, skills, and commitment cloaked in integrity. I look forward to someday catching a ride with you.

What a great video!! It's so excellent that you actively ensure that junior officers get their chance to maneuver the ship, since as you say, it's the most "fun" and absorbing and critical thing you so as senior ships staff. That's so excellent!! I look forward to watching more excellent vids about ships equipment and ops now also!! Thanks so much for this! Nicely Done!

What a great video Captain Kate. I learned a lot and I know the Junior Officers appreciate you also. Sea you in 2022. Gratie mille.

You are a pro. I've worked on princess ships in 6:37 the gift shops many years ago and so enjoying these updates. I so look up to you, Captain, and love your kittycat.

NO paper charts! So much easier to update electronic, but wow - I wonder who can still plot a DR line! So much more sophisticated now. Love the shot of Memory Rock! Destinations for several of my first crossings. Your TikTok has been great for showing people just how much work is going on while you are anchored by Little Stirrup. Kisses to the "MSA" companion.

You’re soooo smart in what you do. Thank you for educating us and caring doe all those that cruise with you and work with you.

Great video showing your bridge and team! As a Tanker Master a lot is similar but also very different! So great that you give all your team opportunity to manoeuvre the ship, as a Jnr Officer I was blessed to sail with Masters who gave me the opportunity and I also like to give this opportunity to my jnr officers too!

Those azimuth thrusters! So cool. I’m fascinated by shit like that. Propellers, ramjets, pump-jets, tunnel thrusters, rim-driven thrusters-from small retractable bow thrusters on a sailboat to the monstrous Azipods on your luxury liner. Fantastic.

Used to be a helmsman in the navy. It's intersting job to say yeah I've driven a giant ship.

Thanks so much Captain. I learned something new today! Happy Sailin'

Respected Captain Kate, very nice to listen new generation ships manoeuvres, May God bless all seafarers, Ours were manual day and hard ship days evolved with experience new generation. Thank you Captain

Im so amazed everything we've been taught at school were explained very concise and clear here😍😍😍. Ughh i wish you could be my prof for deck watch keeping ❤️❤️❤️. I hope you'll notice me Captain Kate. I love you and you're my inspiration 😘😘

Oh my gosh! Captain Kate, this was a fascinating video. I never realized there are so many ways to maneuver a giant ship. Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge. Please give bugs naked special thanks for overseeing the production of the video. Awesome job.😉😁👍👍

The way you explain shows your command over your ship 👌

Watching this makes me realize how awesome were the sailors back in old days,who navigated with stars etc

You should do training videos for students undertaking courses to become sea captains , your explanations are very clear and simple , even to someone like me who have no knowledge of ships and its mechanism. Thank you captain Kate

Such a awesome video. I'm going to be going on a cruise for the first time in two weeks (Anthem of the Seas) and I love learning about the behind the scenes in whatever I'm a part of. I always wondered how in the world these massive ships get docked and seeing how the team does it all here is very impressive. I'm a pilot and people say what I do is difficult. After watching this you guys make what I do look like a piece of cake! This is on a whole 'nother level!

The technology behind the DP system is remarkable. Another great video - thank you for giving us these unique insights

I love this series! Thank you!

Great video! Those pods' used on all kinds if ships now a day's must be the best thing since sliced bread for the captions. I also admire how everyone gets to share the duty's like that. If everyone knows what's going on and what it takes, it makes it easier on everyone to act as a team.

I love the details and that you delegate to the rest of your staff so that they can get the experience. Very nice

Captain, You are such an inspiration.

I worked on an RCCL ship (the Jewel) for 10 months as a musician. Most of the time we were under Cap't Thor, whom I'd suspect you know (but this was 15 years ago) What impressed me the most was the arrival at Georgetown, Bermuda. The ship arrived between two rock jetties, and the ship never wanted to have to reverse to leave the port. I suspect that is because there are serious $$ penalties to the cruise line for overstaying a scheduled departure. When it's time to scoot, they want to hit the gas and go. So the turnaround has to occur upon arrival, not the departure. So in between these 2 jetties, the ship executes a perfect 180 degree turnaround. (Jewel was also an azipod ship) There was one guy on the bow and another guy on the stern both with laser range finders, pointing them at the jetties. I'm telling you that ship (950 feet+/-) turned 180 degrees around with no more than 50 feet clearance fore and aft. That blew my mind. Is there a subroutine in the ship's nav computer such the ship will stand still and rotate in place, or was that maneuver all manual?

So glad that women all over the world are navigating to deliver our large dangerous cargo's safely. Thank you ladies.

That’s cool that so many people get to maneuver the ship.

This was outstanding Captain. Thank you.

Fantastic video Captain. Very detailed and informative. I do love a bridge tour when we go cruising if we get the opportunity. Looking forward to more.

Very interesting, Captain! Specially such small controls, for such a huge ship! Now I know how the Enterprise can function without large controls....all to do with miles of cables, and computer systems....all electronics 😊😊

Thank you very much, Captain.

Great video, Captain! I'm going to send this to all my family and friends that are constantly asking for an inside look at a cruise ship.

I’m seriously addicted to your channel and want to interview you big time on Dive Talk!!!

Insightfull series capt. Kate! Thx!

Congrats!!! Spent years working with British and Norwegian captains at Princess and Seabourn...nice to understand a Captain for once...lol.

Hey I see me! I’ll never forget my first maneuver of our Grand Cayman🎉

Wow one of my dreams !! But a big wooden steering wheel is the dignity of a ship 😔😎

Greatness! Thanks Captain Kate and team. 🤙🏻

My favorite Tik Tok content creator is now my favorite RU-vid channel. I love your videos so much! You are so incredibly empowering. Thank you!

I am a USCG 100 Master. You did a great job explaining.

Thanks for a great video. You do an excellent job & make the cruise industry proud. 👍😀

The coolest job EVER!

What a great video explaining the 'driving' of the ship.

Nice video. Thanks for sharing. Lot of hard work that goes on in the background that is so often overlooked.

Thank you for taking the time to share this with us! Greetings from Guatemala

This is truly amazing stuff thank you for this and your hard work glad u popped in my feed !

I'm tickled to see that you have a "Barque Cat"! I thought they were relegated to science fiction!

I love boating and being raised on Long Island gave my the opportunity to spend a lot of time on the water. My dads love of sailing afforded us many wonderful days sailing on and around LI. My dad actually built a sail boat in our basement and as it grew it went out to the garage. I happen to be partial to speed boats as opposed to sailboats but being out on the water is my happy place so I’ll get it any way that I can. Bisous my friends.

Such a cool video! Thank you Capitan!

Outstanding ! Many thanks !

We had the privilege of cruising with you on the Summit years ago, and I must say we've never looked forward to the Captain's daily briefings as much as we've enjoyed yours.

Great video thank you for sharing

I'm so invested in this now!

Love the look of that electronic chart. We use Rosepoint for our electronic charts

CAPT. KATE, WAS MY FAVOURITE CAPTAIN ON CELEBRITY FLEET. IN MY CAREER OF 22 YEARS ON CELEBRITY .BEST TIM.E OF MY LIFE..I RETIRED NOW.BEST WISHES TO CAPT. KATE & CELEBRITY CRUISES.STAY SAFE, STAY HEALTHY. BYE

This is clear, concise, and complete!

Awesome video...thanks for sharing!

I was a helmsman in the Navy. Really enjoyed being on the Pacific for 4 years.

Thanks for your very informative session.

I enjoyed the ship tour, especially the bridge visit, on Celebrity Summit back in 2018. Lots of what I saw in your video matched up with my visit, Anyway, as soon as I saw the images starting this video, I realized I was probably looking at a Celebrity ship. And indeed I was. Thank you for an excellent look at the process. I'll be looking for some of you other videos.

That's one hell of an office and you can't beat that view!

Thanks Captain Kate. Love the ship’s kitty.

Really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing! Hello from the UK btw

Nice one Kate . Great video 👍

I just started watching these videos and it is awesome. Well I guess you hooked me Line & Sinker. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of all these videos. Keep your spirits High because I just don't have the sea legs for it

I watched until the end. How epic

You easily jumped into the top 3 vloggers on my list ( including eSysman and Aquaholic) Keep on posting, captain Kate :)

That was so well done and efficiently. Kudos!

Thank you. Very informative.

Very Cool Captain Kate!

Very interesting Captain Kate I worked for carnival cruises for 14 years and never had the opportunity to go the the bridge 🌉 you looked like you would of been a respectful but yet a fun Captain 👩‍✈️ to work with. I’ve very happy that women are taking up the job. You must miss sailing ⛵️ COVID 19 messed with everything anyway looking forward to see the rest of your videos.

Thank you Captain Kate for bringing us aboard. Love this series

Thank you very much captain😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Bug Naked is so cute with her little suit! Cute ships cat!

Wow how interesting is this, i love it 👍👍 continue the good work Captain Kate 👍👍👍👍

Very pretty captain continue guiding our sail. Ship's life TV here always supports

This was awesome!!! We are booked on the Edge for Feb 2022, I hope you are our captain! You did an amazing job explaining & I love your leadership:)

Your first time… exactly. I was the Officer of the Deck (or Watch as you have it) and conning officer (who gives rudder and engine orders) coming into Pearl Harbor Hawaii on our way to Japan. The Captain asked who had sailed into that port before and I was the only one with that experience even though I was only an Ensign. As the LST (amphibious ship) has a flat bottom for beaching and a very large sail area it is often at the mercy of any wind. Pearl is known for a fairly steady trade wind, so I knew we would have to crab our way down the channel (steering a heading that is offset from the heading you want to go for non-mariners reading this). As this was 42 years ago, I may be off a degree or two but I seem to recall that offset varied from 4 to 6 degrees depending on which leg of the approach we were on. As you might imagine, this mad the Captain a bit nervous but I had the quartermaster show him our track which was dead center in our half of the channel. Of all the things I did in the Navy, shipdriving (as we called it) was the most fun. I seemed to have in innate sense of relative motion for maneuvering (to compensate for my less than stellar command of engineering, no doubt) and it is what I miss most. Well, maybe that and parachuting. 😎 Anyway. I appreciated the view from the bridge, and am a little jealous of all the high tech stuff ships have now days. Still, I liked competing against the quartermasters to see who could come up with the best star fix.

A very cool channel. I worked as a dive contractor for years, with Seahorse Diving, and always enjoyed seeing 'behind the scenes' on the ships. My most lasting memory of Celebrity ships, was your awesome security staff. Those Israeli commando types were always fun to work with.

Very interesting to know about the procedures on the bridge, the technology involved is quite simply mind blowing, so clever, as are the crew who use these systems. Thank you for giving us a little insight, very enjoyable to watch.

I loved this episode! So clear, concise and informative. I'd love to see one about the cat too, it's so cute! I want to know all about it.

Love the sun glasses ! What a job! 👍

In the late 90's I was a volunteer of the SSV Ernestina (now Ernestina/Morrisey), an 1894 90' Essex Schooner in New Bedford, MA. Captain was Amanda Madiera, 1st Mate was Jon Burt. As a Commercial Pilot, I learned more from those two than I could ever imagine (a sail functions like an airplane wing, it's cambered to provide a low pressure side and a high pressure side, the sail moves towards the low pressure. I always thought the wind just pushed the thing). Some of the best sailors and pilots I have known were women.

Thank so much for these videos. I hope to cruise on your ship someday.

Wow, my first time having a look at your channel and it incredibly interesting! I know how to fly planes but I was completely unwaware of all this! Didn’t expect all the automation either. Keep it up Captain!