__________________ ".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
The boat is a traditional Dutch sailboat called a Vollenhovense Bol. It's a 27' gaff rigged steel double-ender with leeboards.
The name came with the boat, and much to my surprise I don't plan to change it. I always wanted a steel boat I could call Iron Maiden - combines the idea that boats are female and my love of heavy metal music. But the name Dutch Treat just seems right. The prior owners brought it over from Holland and they felt it was a treat.
She looks in nice shape... and yes, appropriately named too!
We were in Holland visiting relatives a few years back, and took a round-trip canal day tour from Sneek... it was fascinating to see the different boats, and the traditional ones - to look across a pasture and see masts moving along the far edge in yet another canal.
__________________ ".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
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