Peter is a KTLer, keen winter sailor and a Dutchman. As you know, I love snaps in my inbox and he sends me some real corkers. I had no idea Dutch boats were so amazing.
Peter has a great eye for a good boat - if you want to know more about specific pix I am sure he will respond on here
Love those boats but man ,imagine the maintenance
Love it! gerogeous, boat porn to the max!
We sailed to holland many times on family holidays . Loved every minute, Boats , people, restaurants, towns , canals ,meers,bridges , locks, English spoken, and way better weather….you must go there next!
Warren
Pseudo pic 17-18, could not find the utube video of the Dutch barges racing and pushing so hard they capsize! Really !
Fortunately they are in shallow inland water!
Agree great to go sailing there. Is this the vid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB1QeSro_gI – “falls over” about 9 mins in . Love the echo’s of Ben Hur for the last race
Dylan,
I’m amazed! You sailed on the East coast for years and never heard or saw anything about the Dutch equivalent of our East coast smacks, bawleys, Thames barges etc.? That’s what racing does for you, I dunno.
I probably had an advantage sailing out of Downs Road Boatyard for years. You couldn’t help but get caught up in the old gaffers thing. And I’ve always taken an interest in “classic” working boats and gaffers even though I sailed Wharram cats most of the time. The first boat I sailed was a gunter-rigged “Whippet” on the Broads.
I went to Holland once on a friend’s boat. We did some of the canals – Ghose (sp?), Middleburgh etc. My main memories are of beautiful and expensively fitted-out Dutch boats and seriously good Indonesian take-aways.
It’s from an older movie but the competition is no less exiting, these days. Search youtube for ‘Skutsjesilen’ if you want to see more recent competition.
I remember how wonderful Holland was for sailing when I went there as a seventeen year old and again as a 30 year old in an Arpege and Centaur respectively. A wonderful country for sailing, food, spirits and companionship. However some of the commercial shipping was very intimidting with the wake they create!
thanks James
great film, not the one I saw but it looks like they are still sailing them hard.
must try and find the full film.
we always called the dutch barges Bottas but later we discovered there were as many variant as a there are for english sailing fishing and cargo boats.
warren
the little ones like photo 6 are called Grundels I think. my parents rented one for a week about 15 years ago , all steel, it was a bit small compared to their own boat but a lot of fun.
there is all sorts of inland sailing a bit like the boards with out as many plastic rentals (or it was years ago!)
I remember Sneek Friesland was the center of a great area to go.
It would be a perfect place to do a boat swop with somebody save the hassle of sailing over there etc.
warren
And they have great boat designers in the Netherlands as well.
Koopman Sr. is very known. I own a Breehorn 37, fabulous boat.
Havea look at this catalogue of traditional working boats of The Netherlands:
Cheers,
Herman