Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Avanti"
Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Avanti |
Registered port: | Hoorn |
Nation: | NL |
Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
Year built: | 1898 |
Yard: | Nederlof, Sliedrecht, NL |
Overall length: | 31.40 m |
Breadth: | 5.95 m |
Draught: | 1.25 m |
Sail area: | 386 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Power: | 110 PS |
Engine: | Diesel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 31 Mar 2000
- 1898 built at the shipyard of Nederlof in Sliedrecht, used as engine-driven vessel until the 1930s
- she was scuttled to protect her from the use in the World War II, salvaged after the war, 1956 equipped with a new engine and changes of the hull, used as freighter
- 1989 change of owner and rebuilding of the hull, 1991 she was completely rebuilt to a charter ship for passengers, rigged as a ketch (she has been a pure engine-riven vessel for a long time)
- today she sails the Dutch coast, the mud-flats and Dutch inland waters