Our fleet of pilot boats has grown dramatically over the past couple of years. The growth reflects the increase in requests for our pilotage for Route Tango, as well as a commitment to piloting to several important ports and roads on the Jutland peninsula.
The latest addition to our fleet comes from a Swedish shipyard renowned for its fast boats. The Boghammar Marin yard on an island in the Stockholm archipelago has long been famous for sleek-hulled yachts and boats for over a hundred years. These include a number of world-record breaking speed boats and the company becoming the generic name for fast military attack craft, Boghammars.
The 1160th boat the family-owned yard built is now being refurbished in another archipelago, the South Funen one. Once she’s set, she’ll touch water again, renamed as Kingfish with a new home port, Sjælland Odde. Built for and operated by the Swedish Maritime Administration as Pilot 738, she was previously based in Helsingborg, where she serviced the eastern Kattegat, piloting The Sound.
Kingfish’s arrival marks yet another significant stage in the story of the Danish Pilot Service. It comes as the service is settling into its new headquarters in Svendborg. Indeed, the former SIMAC building that is now home to the dispatch department and the back office, can be seen from the shipyard that houses Kingfish.
The changes come as the entire fleet is being rebranded one-by-one with a uniformly cleaner look and new logos.
