Elias and the Royal Yacht

Elias and the Royal Yacht (Norwegian: Elias og Kongeskipet) is the first movie of the series.

Story
In Elias and the Royal Yacht, our little rescue boat is on a secret mission to find The Royal Yacht.

A tragedy struck the Royal Fleet when The Princess Boat vanished up north, and The Royal Yacht has not been himself ever since. But now he too has gone missing, and something must be done to find out what’s going on.

Plot
The story of Fearless, a legendary rescue boat that saved the Royal Yacht from a hurricane in his youth, is told at Cozy Cove by Jovial. After the story, Elias leaves to inspect the area as a storm rolls in. He meets a patronising and rude yacht called Rocke Gabrielsen II, who’s passing by. After realising how dangerous the storm has actually made the sea, Rocke requests an escort to Big Bay, but Elias says it’s against the Rescue Center’s regulations for a rescue boat to leave his post. Instead of following Elias back to Cozy Cove’s port, Rocke furiously snaps at him and sets off for Big Bay anyway.

The next day, the Rescue Center sends a letter to the harbor at Cozy Cove: For Elias to see them “right now”. Elias has a big trip getting to Big Bay. When he gets there, he finds himself the joke of cranes, forklifts and tugboats in a Container Port due to his young age and claim of being a rescue boat. However, Elias earns the Container Port Gang's request when they see how little their taunts bother him and they let in stay for the night.

However, it turns out the next day that the Rescue Center had discharged Elias and stripped him of Swifty. Rocke Gabrielsen II, revealed to be the owner of the Container Port, had reported him for “letting” him battle the storm alone and almost perish at sea. Everyone at the Container Port loses their respect for Elias and he’s banned from entering the Port from tomorrow. One worker at the Port, a supply boat called Suverina, hadn’t lost her respect for Elias and she sneaks him into the Royal Harbor for entertainment.

While looking at the wonderful portraits of past rescue boats, including Fearless, they hear the staff and hide. Adjudant Hoff, an expert, Admiral Bang, a navy ship who arranges rescue operations and pairs and Rocke are disgusting Coast Day and the whereabouts of the Royal Yacht, who’s missing. Bang has assigned two boats to find him, but the operation, called Operation Whoopity Doo, needs a third rescue boat to avoid the two having conflicts due to their poor partnership.

Suverina brings Elias to Hoff the next day and Elias is assigned to the task. The two other boats on the job are Gunpowder, a warboat and Sinus, a research vessel. Meanwhile, Rocke had assigned a group of three extremely cocky news writers, the Paparazzi, to find the Royal Yacht and report he’s still working for Princess, the Royal Yacht’s daughter who’s believed to be deceased since she disappeared near the Black Current in Rofoten. After they leave, Rocke reveals he also plans to lead the country after getting the Royal Yacht out of the way; becoming the first president, ending monarchy.

Operation Whoopity Doo takes the boats across Stormy Bay, an area of storms and extremely rough seas. Gunpowder ignores Sinus’ warnings and while trying to get through, runs aground onto a reef. Elias gets Sinus to a cove and he goes back for Gunpowder. He pulls her off the reef.

The next day, Operation Whoopity Doo reach Rofotan. The three boats had gained respect for each other and they continue their mission. However, at the Royal Harbor, the staff back find out from Rocke about Elias being dismissed from the Rescue Center. After forcing Sinus to tell her the message sent to him, Gunpowder expels Elias from the mission and snaps at the “imposter” for betraying their country and the Royal Yacht.

Elias moors at a small closed down Port, depressed. He tells a passing vessel about his situation and the vessel tells him that boats like Fearless start off as regular boats until they make their own way in life. After a while, Elias leaves the Port and discovers that the vessel is the Royal Yacht in disguise. The Royal Yacht is looking for his daughter near the Black Current. The Paparazzi catch up, but when they go to invade the Royal Yacht, Due accidentally makes Trawler, who’s fishing in Rofotan, lose all his caught fish. A livid Trawler captures all of them and takes them away.

Fog rolls in and Elias and the Royal Yacht enter a cave to wait for it to lift. In there, they hear a chrous, which the Royal Yacht confirms is his daughter. Gunpowder and Sinus arrive. Using her rocket launchers, Gunpowder blows an entrance to the lake in the middle of the Island. In the beautiful lake, they finally find Princess. However, they are trapped, with the opening caving in and a big rock damaging Sinus’ telecommunication.

Princess explains how she got in. While trying to find her father in the fog, she was sucked underwater and through an underwater cave by the Black Current, narrowly avoided a massive, dangerous octopus and by complete sheer luck, she was spat out into another cave on the Island.

Sinus studies the water and realises they have the chance to escape the next time the tide turns the way heading to the open sea. While the undercurrents in the Black Current would usually suck a boat down completely, “Princess Syndrome”, a name by Sinus, is an extremely rare and short occurrence. It sucks something down to a certain depth, then pulls it up and spits it out on the side the tide is going; and it's happening when the tide next turns.

The boats plunge through the cave and are spat out in the sea. The undercurrents start taking over before the Royal Yacht can be spat out. Elias lets himself be sucked down and he attaches Gunpowder’s hook to the Royal Yacht. After that, Elias sinks, until the octopus gets him. Elias uses a rock to whack the octopus away and his body floats up to the surface. At first, it looks like Elias drowned, but it turns out he survived.

Coast Day comes and at the Royal Harbor, the Royal Yacht talks about the bravery of the three boats. He says that Elias’ bravery in the Black Current surpasses Fearless’. That evening Swifty is returned to Elias and they head back to Cozy Cove. Rocke Gabrielsen II is discharged from the Royal Harbor and the first thing he finds is the Paparazzi planning to put his scheme on the news.

Characters

 * Elias
 * Trawler
 * Crane
 * Fishmonger
 * The Red Houses
 * Swifty (does not speak)
 * Smacky (cameo)
 * Cruiser (cameo)
 * Uncle and Nephew (cameo)
 * The White Boat (cameo)
 * The Brown Boat (cameo)
 * Arthur (cameo)
 * Little Blinky (cameo)
 * Big Blinky (mentioned)

Characters Introduced

 * Rocke Gabrielsen II
 * Suverina
 * The Royal Yacht
 * Princess
 * Adjudant Hoff
 * Admiral Bang
 * Gunpowder
 * Sinus
 * Paparazzi
 * The Container Port Gang
 * The Guards (do not speak)
 * House Boat Couple (cameo)
 * Pedro Gonzales (mentioned)
 * Fearless (portrait: physical appearance)

Norwegian

 * Aleksander Emil Dyrberg Ek - Elias
 * Marit Andreassen - Gunpowder
 * Per Christian Ellefsen - Sinus
 * Svein Tindberg - The Royal Yacht
 * Klara Døving - Princess
 * Nils Ole Oftebro - Rocke Gabrielsen II
 * Björn Gedda - Trawler
 * Per Myrberg - Admiral Bang
 * Tommy Nilsson and Björn Skifs - Paparazzi
 * Michael Nyqvist, Pernilla August and Ane Dahl Torp - The Red Houses
 * Esben Selvig - Fishmonger

Trivia

 * This movie takes place after the first season and before the second season of the series.
 * This is the final instalment of the series to feature the original Finnish voice cast, with none of them reprising their roles for Elias and the Treasure of the Sea except for Petri Liski (who only came back to voice Trawler). Season 2 was never dubbed in Finnish.
 * This film marks the only appearances of Adjutant Hoff, Admiral Bang and The Container Port Gang to date.
 * Trawler and Cruiser appear on the cover alongside the main characters of the movie, though Trawler has a minor role and Cruiser only cameos towards the beginning and end.
 * Uncle is the only boat character introduced in the first season not to appear at all at the end.

Goofs

 * During the scene where Sinus studies the Black Current, the texture on the water changes within a frame.
 * Helinor is seen on the Brazilian Portuguese DVD cover, but she doesn't appear in the movie.