Delivery after canal cruise

Feadship is known to be a shipyard merger. Royal Van Lent builds in Kaag, one of the most expensive areas, or rather polders, in the Netherlands. From the embanked land 40 kilometres south-west of Amsterdam, it is only ten kilometres to the North Sea in a north-westerly direction. However, the 94-metre-long "Viva" set course for Rotterdam, a good 40 kilometres to the south, in order to start test runs from there. At 14 metres, the De Voogt Azure design almost literally scratches the eye of the canal. A lift bridge and a railway bridge had to be passed, as well as the Ringvaartaquaduct, a motorway bridge outside Oude Wetering, under which a four-lane road runs. At a bascule bridge in Alphen aan den Rijn, there was only four centimetres of space on each side. The consequences: The push-tow convoy manoeuvred, several hands distributed fenders in front of the side walls and motorists had to wait for an hour. Others were delighted and gazed from various church towers, windmills or roofs at the three pools and wide window fronts, free of bulwarks. On the North Sea, the hybrid drive of the steel-aluminium format then ran at 20 knots.