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SeaDream Yacht Club, a small entrepreneurial company, set up shop in August 2001 and a month later took possession of two luxury cruise ships originally known as the Sea Goddess I and II. The line offers "ultra-luxury cruises on mega-yachts," and potential cruisers need only look to see who's in charge here to get an idea of what's in store for them. The owner of SeaDream is Norwegian industrialist Atle Brynestad, at one time the largest shareholder of the old Royal Viking Line and the founder, in 1987, of Seabourn Cruise Line. Chairman, CEO and co-owner is Larry Pimentel, who worked for Brynestad as the president of Seabourn. That luxury line is now owned by Carnival Corp., which sold the two 116-passenger cruise ships to Brynestad and Pimentel. Now named SeaDream I and II, the vessels will be renovated with the total transformation complete by May 2002. The two cruise ships will sail in the same regions, calling in some lesser-known ports that are inaccessible to mega-ships. From May to October, both vessels will sail weeklong Mediterranean itineraries, primarily to and from Nice, France. Among the scheduled calls are less-visited ports such as Portofino, Italy; Cassis and St. Tropez, France; and Valencia, Spain. Starting in October, the duo will operate weekly Caribbean cruises from Miami for 10 weeks before moving to a homeport in St. Thomas. The Miami journeys call at San Salvador, Rose Island and Nassau in the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos, and Key West, Fla. St. Thomas itineraries include visits to ports in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and the Grenadines.

Cruise ships and itineraries:

SeaDream I: Bahamas registry, built 1984, 4,260 gross tons, 110 passengers, 90 crew members. Itineraries: Mediterranean out of Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy, Piraeus (Athens), Greece, Istanbul, Turkey, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Malaga, Spain and Monte Carlo, Monaco; Trans-Atlantic out of Malaga, Spain and San Juan, Puerto Rico; Eastern Caribbean out of Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas), US Virgin Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Bridgetown, Barbados.
SeaDream II: Bahamas registry, built 1985, 4,260 gross tons, 110 passengers, 90 crew members. Itineraries: Mediterranean out of Mediterranean out of Civitavecchia (Rome) and Venice, Italy, Piraeus (Athens), Greece, Istanbul, Turkey, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Malaga, Spain, Monte Carlo, Monaco and Valletta, Malta; Trans-Atlantic out of Bridgetown, Barbados and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Eastern Caribbean out of Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas), US Virgin Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Phillipsburg, St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies.