9/14/2023 0 Comments Clipper ship in stormCEO Alan McGrory resigns as a director and is replaced by Tomislav Debeljak. May 2022: Tradewind Voyages’ head of sales Mark Schmitt and business development manager Rachel Healey leave the company. Brodosplit is forced to halt production at its shipyard because of international sanctions against a Russian-owned bank which lent it money for Golden Horizon and another ship. March 2022: The ship’s 2022 season is put back from May to July for a number of reasons including the Ukraine war. October 2021: Tradewind Voyages cancels Golden Horizon’s inaugural Caribbean season over ‘guest concerns about travelling in bubbles’ due to Covid rules. Following the incident, former Tradewind Voyages CEO Stuart Mcquaker says he has ‘lost all confidence’ in Brodosplit’s owner Tomislav Debeljak delivering Golden Horizon to the required standard. July 2021: Golden Horizon begins a maiden season of cruises from Dover – but is briefly arrested during a stopover at the port in the continuing row between Star Clippers and Brodosplit. Initial round-Britain itineraries are also canned when the Scottish government bans calls from cruise ships at its ports. June 2021: The ‘dress rehearsal’ voyage of Golden Horizon in Portsmouth is scuppered by new government rules limiting cruise ship capacity. March 2021: Tradewind Voyages moves back the world debut of Golden Horizon in Harwich, UK, from May to July 1, to fit with the government’s new timetable out of Covid lockdownĪpril 2021: Star Clippers is awarded ‘substantial damages’ in the legal row over the ship. Tradewind Voyages is a subsidiary of Brodosplit. Star Clippers insists the ship is still theirs.Ģ020: In June, the yard announces that the ship, now known by its construction title Brodosplit 483, has found a home at Tradewind Voyages, a UK-based operator, though it will retain ownership. In October 2017 the hull is launched down a slipway.Ģ018: The year passes with no sign of the ship going into service.Ģ019: In August, Brodosplit declares Flying Clipper is finished but because of a dispute with Star Clippers it is putting the ship up for sale. The string of bad luck started almost as soon as work began…Ģ015: The ship is ordered by Monaco-based Star Clippers from the Brodosplit yard in Croatia as Flying Clipper.Ģ017: In the year the 300-passenger vessel was originally due to set sail, Star Clippers founder and CEO Mikael Krafft announces ‘some delay in construction’ but says ‘the resulting quality of build will be excellent when Flying Clipper is delivered in 2018’. With 35 sails flapping in the wind, Golden Horizon commands the seas, slicing through waves and creating a spectacle of another age.īut the world’s biggest square rigger has weathered a number of storms over the years. With the news that Golden Horizon has been put up for sale for £100million, I look back on the ship’s troubled history… Choppy waters: Golden Horizon (Picture: Tradewind Voyages)
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