Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Passaat"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Passaat |
Ex-names: | Margiena |
Registered port: | Harlingen |
Nation: | NL |
Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
Type of ship: | 2-Mast Klipper |
Year built: | 1900 |
Yard: | Gebroeders Boot, Leiderdorp, NL |
Length: | 33.00 m |
Breadth: | 6.00 m |
Draught: | 1.30 m |
Sail area: | 420 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Power: | 200 PS |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 11 Mar 2014
- built in 1900 as a 1-masted sailing klipper at the shipyard of the Boot brothers in Leiderdorp, NL; first name "Margiena" (combination of the names of the owners Marinus and Giena Boertien).
- used as a cargo ship until 1964, motor cargo ship on the inland waters and big rivers, became a living ship in Rotterdam, NL then.
- 1992 sold by Boertien family to Frans and Frouke Fischer.
- first repairs at the shipyard Koningspoort in Rotterdam, transferred to Harlingen then.
- converted to a 2-masted sailing klipper for the charter business with sailing guests, commissioned under the new name "Passaat".
- since 2007 is the son Frank Fischer the skipper, since 2011 the owner too.
- frequent and successful participation in sailing events for Dutch flat-bottom ships, i.e. in the Brandarisrace between Harlingen and Terschelling.
Contact:
Website (nederlands/English/deutsch, 18 Apr 2021):http://www.zonnewind.de/
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