Flat bottom ship

A flat-bottomed ship is a sailing ship in the sense of a flat boat , which was mainly built for use in the Wadden Sea of the North Sea and on the English Channel . This type of ship does not have a beam keel and has a flat underwater ship . Therefore, these ships can easily run dry in the mudflats of the North Sea .

The two leeboards and the extremely shallow draft of around one to one and a half meters are characteristic of the flat-bottomed ships . You can still navigate large parts of the Wadden Sea even when the water is low . This type of ship is usually built with lengths between 10 and 30 m and has one to three masts .

Originally built as cargo ships, these ships are now mainly on the Dutch Wadden and IJssel Sea and in the Watt off Schleswig-Holstein as charter ships.

species

Original species are the ewer and the bojer . From the latter, Galiot , Kuff and Tjalk developed . The Frisian Skûtsje is a specially designed form of the tjalk as a barge .

photos

Flat-bottomed ship on the Wadden Sea between Terschelling and Harlingen on a downwind course with the swords folded up
Flat bottom ship fallen dry in the mudflats off Westerhever
Klipper aak Onverwacht has dried up on a sandbank between Terschelling and Harlingen