As a former master of this vessel, I have to say that her original configuration two swimming pools, three saunas and a large conference room Tuvaq often felt like a hotel.

That... I did not expect.

Let's wait and see.

The pilot informed me:

The ship is under conversion to a Hotel/Restaurant

brgds
Capt Peter
Barranquilla

Hi Capt Ted, as one of the previous comments said: We have to keep an eye on it, i.e. continue sailing to Barranquilla for the next years!:-)

Look here,,just ahead of the new Terminal; http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2558131

Captain Peter,,She was bought to be a chemical cargo storage ship and she was initially on the side where BitCon is now, Just short of the place where the old Dreges lay around. The deal with the storage ship fell through and ever since the vessel was moved back to where she is now. She had before a dark blueish color, seems like someone tries to do something again with her.

Oh, and based on Sentinel-2's satellite photographs the main deck was painted white in July 2020. You can't really see any details in the low-resolution photographs but the white deck shines all the way to space.

In Google Earth's high-resolution satellite photographs, you can see that in 3/2019 the ship was still largely intact. In 11/2019, the cargo deck piping was being removed but some outfitting such as the helicopter landing area still remained on the deck. In 1/2020, the piping had disappeared completely and there's some dust blown off the starboard quarter, probably originating from sandblasting the paint off the deckhouse. However, the weather deck is still red whereas in this photograph it appears to be re-painted white.

Interesting indeed. While the ship was built more than four decades ago, it's a double hull vessel built of high-quality steel with heavy ice strengthening (= additional corrosion margin). It was also re-engined in 1997.

This is very interesting - please keep an eye on it.

Captain Peter, she seems to be on the same spot as where you took a shot of her September 2018. Judging from the growth around her front anchor chain, she has indeed not moved much.

Interesting, I will ask the pilot for more details once outbound.
brgds
Capt Peter
Barranquilla

The former TUVAQ, IMO 7421966, built in 1977 as Tiira for Neste.

http://shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=7421966&x=14&y=5

Looks like she is undergoing conversion to "something". She has been lying at Barranquilla since Nov 2013 after being sold by Canadian owners.
Krispen