CELEBRITY SILHOUETTE’S CAPTAIN DIMITRIOS Kafetzis has breathed a huge sigh of relief after the successful completion of first stage of the $750m vessel’s 26 mile reverse park. Necessary to move Silhouette from her Papenburg shipyard to the open sea in Emshaven in the Netherlands, the first stage of the epic journey gave crew more than a few extra grey hairs, with stretches of the river only allowing around 1.5 metres of room on either side of the new vessel. The geography of the shipyard and the river also forced Silhouette’s crew to steer the ship backwards out of the yard, assisted by tugboats.
