On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:16:21 -0500, DSK wrote:

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listi..._boats=1312127

The Dutch have a long tradition of building sweet curves into steel
hulls, and this is a good example. They also have a tradition of
building burdensome, shallow, bluff-bowed boats but this is isn't one
like that!


Heh, that's only a few miles from my home...



Cheers!


Remco

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.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Remco Moedt wrote:
Heh, that's only a few miles from my home...

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:06:32 -0500, DSK wrote:

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.

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


Cheers!


Remco

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

"DSK" blathered thusly:

You might be interested to know that there are botters at our home,
we've been using them for years for dropping acid . . . . We also
use them for all the oil drips and leaks under the diesel in our
trawler.
Fresh Breezes- Doug King