Mikael Krafft

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Mikael Krafft (* around 1947) is a Swedish-Luxembourg-Monegasque shipowner.

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Krafft is the descendant of a German sailor who settled in Sweden. The following generations all went to sea except for his father. His father, however, became a shipbuilding engineer. Mikael grew up in Saltsjöbaden near Stockholm between shipyards and yachts. There, the sailors told of the clippers that once ruled the seas. As a schoolboy, he sailed several times to Mariehamn in Finland , climbed around the museum harbor on the Pomerania and dreamed of building such a ship one day.

He studied maritime law at Stockholm University and became a lawyer in Paris and Brussels. He founded a real estate company in Brussels. He also bought companies threatened with bankruptcy, restructured them and sold them at a profit. He was also active in the oil business. Then he sold everything to fulfill his dream of reviving the legendary clipper romance , with the energetic support of his wife Ann.

He founded a shipping company and found like-minded people with the Scottish designer Robert McFarlane and the experienced ship designer Zygmunt Choreń . In 1991 and 1992 his four-masted barque Star Clipper and sister ship Star Flyer were launched , with which he offers sailing trips all over the world. In July 2000 he brought the five-master Royal Clipper on its maiden voyage for $ 55 million . A 149 meter long five-masted barque is to follow in 2009, a replica of the France (1.2 m wider). The launch of this 162 meter long 5-mast Bark Flying Clipper with 150 passenger cabins, which was laid on keel at the Croatian shipyard Brodosplit in December 2015, is said to be delayed beyond summer 2019 due to a legal dispute due to delayed completion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.mcfarlane-shipdesign.mc/
  2. ↑ https://skveranka.com/2019/07/21/flying-clipper-brodosplitov-jedrenjak-za-guinnessa/
  3. ↑ http://worldwidewave.de/flying-clipper-verbind-aber-nicht-abhaben

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personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Luxembourg-Monegasque shipowner
DATE OF BIRTH around 1947