You might be interested to know that there's a botter at our home
sailing club. It's a great boat for the North Carolina estuaries & sounds.


Remco Moedt wrote:
Nice! A Botter was used in the Northern part of the Netherlands,
mainly in the Zuiderzee (now known as IJsselmeer). I live in Zeeland
atm, and there another type of ship was used, named Hoogaars.

http://www.visserman.net/fotos/HB3_big.jpg


Thanks for the link. The Hoogaar looks like it's got less bluff a bow,
more "point-y" and possibly faster. I wonder if the word Hoogaar comes
from the same origin as the English word (used as name of type of
vessel) Hooker.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King