Photos show a 310-foot superyacht navigating through miles of narrow Dutch canals to get from a shipyard to the sea
It took the vessel about four days to navigate through the narrow waterways.Tom van Oossanen
- A photographer captured striking photos of a 310-foot superyacht making its way through narrow Dutch canals, per CNN.
- The vessel was being transported from the Kaag Island shipyard to the North Sea at Rotterdam.
- Crowds gathered to watch the massive yacht squeeze through the narrow waterways.
Project 817, a 310-foot superyacht built in the Netherlands, drew crowds earlier this month when the vessel cruised through narrow Dutch canals on its way from a shipyard to the sea, CNN reported.
As Tamara Hardingham-Gill reported for CNN, the yacht was being transported from Feadship's Kaag Island facility to the North Sea at Rotterdam for sea trials.
To get there, it had to spend about four days navigating through miles of narrow canals.
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Photographer Tom van Oossanen captured photos of onlookers watching the massive ship passing through their towns.
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Van Oossanen told CNN that ships must pass through these canals four to six times per year. "It's always quite an operation," he said.
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"Sometimes it takes an hour to go through a bridge, and with the amount of traffic we have in Holland, it soon builds up," Van Oossanen told CNN.
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Van Oossanen said the ship appeared to barely fit through some of the canals. "So they probably couldn't add another centimeter to her length or another centimeter to her width," he told CNN.
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In some parts of the journey, the canals were only a few feet wider than Project 817, which is just under 45 feet at its widest point.
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Feadship designed Project 817 to be an eco-friendly yacht, with a diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system and exhaust emissions treated with catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters, according to Feadship.
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Project 817 is the vessel's temporary name. Its official name has not yet been announced, but CNN reported that it will likely be known as Viva.
Feadship did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment for this story.
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