A brand new boat has docked in Skagen.
That’s to say: it’s not utterly new.
The boat has a 59-year streak behind it and has, amongst different issues, sailed as a switch boat for the Aarhus-Kalundborg ferry and as a medical and mail ferry to the island of Tunø – between Samsø and Jutland.
It’s the former massive fisherman Henning Kjeldsen who has now purchased M/S Tunø, to make use of it in Skagen.
That is written by Stiften.dk.
Most lately, M/S Tunø sailed a harbor cruise in Aarhus, however now the historic ferry has set course for Skagen.
Henning Kjeldsen beforehand owned massive fishing vessels, now he has grow to be the proprietor of a historic picket ferry.
Archive picture: Betina Garcia/Ritzau Scanpix.
Based on the vendor – Sail Occasion Aarhus – the boat is for use for crusing vacationer journeys at Skagen, says director Lars Hede.
– We purchased the boat from plenty of guys who had spent years getting it up and operating, so out of respect for them, the ship and the cultural custom, it was essential that it was bought to somebody who can hold it crusing, he says to Stiften.dk and says that Kjeldsen loves Danish picket ships and invests in preserving them.
“Damaged Our Coronary heart”
Based on a submit on Fb that Henning Kjeldsen created on February 16, it was love at first sight.
“Our little tour of Aarhus led to an outdated mail boat, which broke our hearts, and now we will write Skagen on her ass,” writes Henning Kjeldsen, the place it seems that the boat can be utilized for a little bit of all the things, and that it new proprietor is open to concepts.
Publish on Fb on February 16. Sail Occasion Aarhus states that they bought the boat in March.
Photograph: Fb
Sail Occasion Aarhus has owned M/S Tunø since 2020, when the boat was purchased by some boat fanatics on Samsø.
M/S Tunø was inbuilt 1965 at A. Petersen & Søns Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding in Hou for DKK 200,000 for Tunø Parish Council, once they wanted a ferry to the island.
The 13.65 meter lengthy boat, which may sail with 38 individuals, formally went on sale in January.
Lars Hede says that Henning Kjeldsen has given round DKK 650,000 for M/S Tunø.
Has purchased up properties
Along with crusing with the vacationers at Skagen, Henning Kjeldsen additionally needs to make cash from them residing in Skagen.
Since 2022, when Henning Kjeldsen bought nearly all of his fishing quotas for DKK 2.4 billion, he has, amongst different issues, invested in vacation houses, accommodations, villas, flats, empty constructing websites and business properties in industrial areas.
In whole, the previous big-time fisherman has invested over DKK 200 million, and in September final yr he owned 60 properties – together with Lodge Plesner – which have since grow to be Plesner Badehotel in addition to Lodge Strandvejen, Lodge Petit and Skråvej Byferie Lodge.
At one level he additionally claimed that he had purchased Brøndums Lodge, however this was rejected by the house owners.
On Wednesday, Brøndums Lodge was put up on the market.
2024-05-16 14:36:06
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