The Ship
1956 - 2016
The ALK in her first life
as a tug (1956 - 1993)
The ALK was built in 1956 by Gebrs. van Grevenstein Jacht en Scheepswerf te IJsselmonde.
In this shipyard, leisure and professional ships have been built since 1926 under the guidance of the owners, the brothers van Grevenstein
The Alk - more precisely the Great Auk (Alca impennis, former Pinguinus impennis) - is the penguin of the north. With a body size of up to 85 centimeters and a weight of about five kilograms, he was the largest of the auk birds.
When I bought the Alk in 2003, it was almost empty. With the conversion in the 90s to the Motoryacht, an aft cabin was added and the wheelhouse was rebuilt. "Maybe not so unfavorable," I thought and saw my chance to fit and to furnish the boat as I liked it.
