Polte (boat type)

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As Polte , including desk , smaller, on the island were complaints known, simple Knickspantboote referred. In addition to you, there were larger sailed poles in the lagoon fishery .

history

Polten were used purely as work and fishing boats or barges. They were of different lengths, mostly between three and six meters. A 13 meter long pole was measured in the ship cemetery in Seedorf. The reconstruction shows the pole with the keel added later. In principle, there are small block poles whose stems were made from a large block of wood and which were between 3 and 6 meters long. The sail poles are to be distinguished from this. Tuck and tagler poles, which were designed for two-day trips and fished in the bay. The middle poles were 7 to 9 long, the large poles 10 to 14 meters long. There were also so-called “Garnpolten”, which transported the large nets (called “Garn”) as work boats. Puck. or Taglerpolten fished in batches (pairs) and laid out their tagler or tuck nets in a large circle.

There were sail poles built as boats on the keel and as barges on the floor plank. Before the motorization, the Polten had middle or side swords . The boats had a flat bottom, no jump and was with a slightly inclined aft transom built. They seldom had a pointed spouse. The boats were rowed gewriggt and in accordance shallow waters punted . They had a dry hold and did not travel as long as the larger ships. The Taglerpolt documented with Sohn and Olszak had a flooded fish area, the Bünn (regionally called "Deeken").

literature

  • Wolfgang Rudolph: The island of the boatmen. Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-356-00855-2
  • Michael Sohn, Helmut Olszak: Von Polten und Quatzen - Pommersche Fischerei- und Händlerfahrzeuge , self-published Michael Sohn 2016, co-author with Helmut Olszak and editor, ISBN 978-3-00-052098-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Dudszus, Ernest Henriot, Friedrich Krumrey: The big ship type book. Ships – boats – rafts under oars and sails. Historical ship and boat finds. Famous sailing ships. transpress, Berlin 1983, p. 202.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Rudolph: Sailing boats on the German Baltic coast , Akademieverlag Berlin 1969; Vol. 53
  3. ↑ Olszak, Helmut Von Polten and Quatzen: Pommersche Fischerei- und Händlerfahrzeuge Michael Sohn, self-published

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