New Ships Sail In To Pirates Of The Caribbean At WDW

Recently, Pirates of the Caribbean has been down for about a week or so with no explained reasoning from Disney on why it was occurring until now. As of July 31st, The Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World is open again with a bit of a surprise – brand new boats!  After getting to ride in them on the 1st of August I can say that they are very comfortable and look a lot nicer than the old boats.

On the flip side of that statement though, I did notice a couple of problems with the new boats, the first of which is that they seem to have a very shallow bottom in comparison to the water.  This is noticeable when going over the station belts because since it is so thin, you can feel the belt on the floor of the boat as it is moving on and off of the station belts.  Also the new boats seem to be tighter in the water portions of the ride and due to that they feel like they “bounce” more within the troughs.

Overall, it is of my opinion that the change in boats is a very good thing for Pirates of the Caribbean, and I for one hope that more rides get newer vehicles in the near future as some rides could use a new vehicle that is more accommodating. If any of you get the chance in the near future to test them out, just drop me a line at [email protected], or in the comments below, and let us know what you think about them.

Also, while you are at it, feel free to ask me any questions regarding technology used within the parks or how some of the ride systems work at disney and I will be answering them in either a bi-weekly or weekly column called Ask Tom Morrow!