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| 135 m, 180 guests, draught 1.60 m. That draught is the 135 m Star-Ship class figure we hold and it is unverified: no cruise line publishes a draught for this hull. It is how deep she sits, not how much water she needs beneath her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Water level at the Budapest gauge, observed 26 August 2026, 03:00 CEST. Observation by Országos Vízügyi Főigazgatóság (OVF) / General Directorate of Water Management, delivered through EuRIS — API/Service Hydrometeo v3 incorporated from EuRIS (eurisportal.eu). Over the last three days: steady — the level did not move. The line beside it is Waterlogged's estimated level for this stretch, 60 cm, set from 35 years of readings rather than from any ship's draught. No authority and no cruise line publishes a figure here. On the record (from your live page, 26 August): across 1991–2025 we checked the eleven days around this date. Budapest's lowest daily average was 62 cm, in 2003. This reading is 54. That is below every one of the 385 readings in that window. Normal for 5 September is 203 cm — the median for 1991–2025, not a figure for this year. Your cruise line decides what your ship does. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Budapest sits at Danube-km 1646, and it is the last place on your route where we read a gauge. Above the city the river is the Vienna–Budapest reach, free-flowing below Gabčíkovo and governed by the Budapest gauge. Below the city it becomes the Lower Danube, and our record holds no gauge on it: from your second morning onward the daily says so rather than filling the space. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The route ahead
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Water: the gauge that governs the day, where our record holds one. Below Budapest it holds none, and the row says so.
Weather data by Open-Meteo (commercial licence), fetched 26 August 2026 at 01:21 UTC. Rows to 9 September are that fetch. Rows marked sample sit past the horizon of that fetch: those values are placeholders set from the 2016–2025 record for the same date at that port. They are not a forecast. The nine days of your sailing, as our record holds them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After your last morning we send the Record: the journey chart, every day's briefing as it was sent, and every official reading we logged under your cruise. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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