The owner's first Feadship experience was a two-week cruise on September Blue in the mid-1990s. An immediate convert, he soon bought the 47.50-metre Mi Gaea, which was renamed Blue Moon. Not long after, the designs for a brand-new Feadship were on the table and the second Blue Moon - at 50.28 metre the largest aluminium Feadship ever built at the time - was launched in 2000. The third Blue Moon would follow in 2005.