Royale Floatel Lives Up to Its Name

by Alan Haig-Brown
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Cummins Vessel Reference #712

The futuristic lines of the Royal Floatel.

For harried executives, a marine cruise can offer an escape form a life of tight schedules and constant pressure. The need for a relaxing but luxurious environment was well known to the designers of M/V Royale Floatel. The Vijai Marine Shipyards, designed and carried out the conversion, from a dumb pontoon, of the Royale Floatel to a 14-room all-suite, high-end luxury floating hotel. Delivered to the owners in 2013, it is first in its segment in the country under IRS class.

With a capacity for only 60 passengers, the 60.2 by 13-meter vessel is fitted with a spa featuring Jacuzzi hot-tubs, and claims a Five Star Hotel rating with the largest room size in India. The parent company, Delta Corp. Ltd., operates a large floating casino on the Mandovi River in Goa and the Royale Flotel will cruise the same river at a relaxing eight knots. On their web site (http://www.deltacorp.in/group.html) they explain that, “The first of its kind in Goa, ‘Royale Floatel’ will be an exclusive, all-suite, luxury hotel anchored in the Mandovi river in Goa, with exclusive services for our VIP guests.


During the renovation, an emerging butterfly.

A pair of Cummins NTA855M diesels, each delivering 325 HP at 1800 RPM through ZF gears to turn 1.1-meter propellers, provides propulsion power for the floating hotel. Three more Cummins NTA855DM engines will power 330-kva gensets to meet the vessel’s extensive electrical requirements.


Photos courtesy of Vijai Marine


For further information:

Girish Uttamchandani
Business Leader – Shipyard
Cummins India Ltd
Mobile: 91 99 2295 6359
Office: 91 20 3023 3716 | Extension: 3716
E-mail: girish.uttamchandani@cummins.com

M/s Vijai Marine Shipyards
Rassaim, P.O. Loutolim
India
Phone: 9158998744 | 9822982122

Alan Haig-Brown

Alan Haig-Brown

Over 30 years as an author for global commercial marine and fishing publications backed with hands-on experience on commercial fishing boats and coastal freighters makes Alan Haig-Brown uniquely qualified to provide vessel reference articles for Cummins Marine. You can find him in shipyards around the world, and on his own website, www.haig-brown.com.

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