Royal Denship...still in business?

"Pegasus V"

Not they are not anymore... Moonen finished their latest project, a 38m Dixon design.

Nope... We were entering contract on a 41m in the beginning of the year and tried contactin them for some info...i may be able to get a name...

The owner backed out 1 day before signing the contract cause his wife changed her mind..... :s 3 months negotiation....

Eitherway, from my memory, they were the alliance of 3 shipyards... at least 2 are still alive on their own... Royal Denship was just the brand that managed the yacht builds and brought it together... so in theory if you still wanted something major from one of the yards you could probably contact the yard or one of the sub contractors...

In this case, the yard that build the particular vesse above had really closed... it was Alborg iirc...

Update: yep. according to wikipedia, total 4 yards, 2 remain, 2 bankrupted... Some more info from memory and from looking at builder names and making links:

Aalborg and Aarhus were closed... apparently Princess Mariana's yard, (called Fayard A/S) is still around... I think FB (ex-Big Roi) was built there too, and so were other larger denship steel yachts.

Aalborg was only (?) GRP (upto the 41m in question and including their smaller failed 80ft series)...

The yacht from Aarhus were sent to other yards (moonen?) when they shut in 07

hope it helps...

They went belly-up back in 2009, but I think Aalborg yard is still running under DanYard which was part of the group and built Pegasus's Ex. day boat "Moon Goddess" also designed by Espen Oeino. They even made a couple more that are bigger than "MG".

Princess Mariana is on the top of my list, can't but love that boat!

Cheers,
Alf

Pegasus V captured by portevergladeswebcam on an uncharacteristically cloudy morning in Fort Lauderdale.



That's ok because it is still nice walking at 80 degrees!