| Netherlands. Moonen celebrates 25 years with party & new logo |
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| Friday, 17 March 2006 | |
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Boatbuilder news:Moonen Shipyards, world-renowned Dutch builder of “pocket superyachts,” has begun its 25th year of quality yachtbuilding by introducing a new jubilee logo at a private gathering of employees. The logo, designed by Moonen’s advertising agency Lodeizen Reitsma, features the familiar overlapping “O”s of the company name, one of which now encircles the number “25” and the slogan: “25th Anniversary Moonen Shipyardss 1981 – 2006.” At the presentation, Moonen’s Managing Director, Emile Bilterijst, unveiled the logo to a gathering of current employees, where six of them were honoured for having worked at the yard all 25 years, and two were honored for being there twelve and a half years. Founded in 1981, Moonen rose from the ashes of the de Ruiter Shipyard, a builder of small inland motoryachts. Rien Moonen was the yard’s landlord and when de Ruiter declared bankruptcy, Moonen elected to take over operations, to complete several yachts under construction. He then decided to stick with yachtbuilding. The first yacht begun and launched completely under the Moonen logo was the 21 meter Lady M, assigned “Yard Number 121.” In the ensuing quarter century, Moonen has completed some 60 projects—in steel and aluminium, with displacement and semi-displacement hulls—winning major international awards along the way. Currently, Moonen is nearing delivery of “Yard Number 182,” its first Explorer 114. It has under construction two Moonen 84s (the sixth and seventh of that remarkable series), and two Moonen “94Alu” motoryachts, which inaugurate a line of semi-displacement “Fast Range” cruisers. These, and all other current Moonen models, have been visualized by René van der Velden Design with naval architecture by Stolk Marimecs. Bilterijst, who has been Moonen’s Managing Director since January 1998, also revealed the breadth and depth of his own personal growth at Moonen. A graduate naval architect and engineer, Bilterijst showed that even in one’s maturity it is not too late to learn a new art. He presented a slide show revealing the complex technical process he had spearheaded in baking a cake for the occasion. The one-meter-across cake, shaped as the logo and covered in golden marzipan whipped cream, was created by Bilterijst, with the assistance of the local firm, Allard Bakers. In the celebration, of course, it was consumed with delight by the Moonen team. Later this year Moonen will publish a handsome book recounting and illustrating its rich and diverse history, authored by American journalist Jack A. Somer. |
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