The 45-metre Feadship Helix has become the first large foreign registered yacht to be allowed to cruise the Pearl River in China. Earlier this year, Feadship was the first "Western" superyacht builder to receive orders from Mainland China.
Helix was also the first brand-new Feadship to visit China where it attended the Hainan Rendezvous, the Nansha International Boat Show and the China International Boat Show in Xiamen.
Visit to Nansha
The trip to explore the Pearl River in the Guangdong Province of China made Helix the first superyacht to navigate this river delta. It berthed in the city of Nansha, where European traders kept Folly Forts in the seventeenth century to trade with the mainland Chinese. Today Nansha is a thriving metropolis and a replica of an old Chinese fort serves as the marina clubhouse. This was the ideal location for the city’s first boat show, which took place in early October.
This year, the Helix won the Displacement Motor Yacht below 500 GT award at the World Superyacht Awards.
