SS Lady Mack

Sailing ship / Schooner

SS Lady Mack is our flagship and the offers the largest capacity for over 300 guests on the deck and inside the salons.

This is the charter boat where you really get the full benefit of your event, regardless of the weather conditions. This sailboat is not dependent on the weather, and you can move freely, from all the way back to all the way forward, both above and below deck. The boat has an incredible 300 seats at tables out on deck, and there is also plenty of space for dancing. If desired, the tables can be quickly folded up to the row, so that the enormous sailboat deck is freed up in its entirety. In the aft saloon and the main saloon there are seats at tables for approx. 285 people. The salons are elegantly and intimately furnished, so you can really feel the atmosphere. Here we can easily cater for a larger 3-course dinner, or you can arrange conferences, screenings or lectures with all kinds of audiovisual aids. The vessel’s 3 bars and excellent toilet facilities are designed so that you don’t have to wait in line.

On board Lady Mack, you are completely free to choose whether you or we will select the music. We also arrange live music or other entertainment if this is desired. As the one-of-a-kind boat that she is, Lady Mack combines history and elegance to give you an experience as unforgettable as her rich past.

Our flagship S/S Lady Mack was originally built in England in 1944 as a minesweeper, but her journey has been far more adventurous than that. After the war, she was rebuilt into a robust coastal working boat that transported goods and supplies along the coast of Norway. During this period she earned her reputation as a boat that could face the vagaries of the sea with unparalleled stability and strength.

In the 1960s, she became part of a Norwegian circus, “Løve,” where she even transported exotic animals such as elephants from port to port! It is said that the elephants wandered calmly along the deck as the boat glided across the water. This unique experience has become part of the boat’s rich history, and she is still known among veterans of that era as the “elephant boat.”

Today she appears as a newly restored three-masted full-rigger of the highest class, but with a deeply rooted historical charm. She is actually the largest full-rigger built in wood that we know of in the whole of Europe. We have spent many years restoring her, and now she has become a truly magnificent vessel, based on our many years of experience from the charter market in Oslo.