Swan fan Makkum is a brigantine, built in 1993 in the Gdansk shipyard, Poland. Named for Willem Sligting, Makkum, christened by Hinke de Vries, co-owner and wife, in a multilingual fashion: English, Polish and Frysian and after the ceremony launched in the river Wisla. She is the largest brigantine in the world, as well as the largest two masted sailing vessel, with an overall length of 61 metres (200 ft). The ship was during building full equipend with GMDSS radio equipment for sea-area A3 and 2 main gensets from 40Kw each and an auxiliary genset in the foxhole