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The White Dune is a former Dutch flat-bottomed ship with over 100 years of history. The ship, which was converted into a 2-masted top sailing schooner , was not used as a sailing ship for a long time .
In 1909 the ship was as Neerlandia in Meppel (Netherlands) from the stack left. As a barge under sails - without a motor - it was used in the mudflat. It was owned by the Priet family from Holterfehn for 30 years . An uncle of the future captain Karl Funk bought the ship for 40,000 Reichsmarks , converted it and named it Klara Katharina . In the course of the conversion, a 125 hp engine was installed.
In 1941 the ship sank in a heavy north-west storm in the Dollart off Delfzijl . The skipper, his brother and his wife drowned in the accident. As a 15-year-old boy, Karl Funk experienced the rescue of Klara Katharina . He later took over as captain. Based on the island of Norderney , it was renamed the Weisse Düne in 1964 . She kept this name to this day.
Until 1999, the dune - as it is known for short - carried scrap metal, briquettes and stones from the Rhineland via the Ruhr area to the coast and the islands of the North Sea. In 2000, the Brinkmann family from Leer bought the cargo ship, which had been rebuilt several times, and had it converted into a traditional sailing schooner for 2,000,000 marks in 14 months. The masts are in the hull and not, as is often the case, on deck . The Dutch and German Wadden Sea remained the home of the White Dune until 2003 .
From 2004 the Usedomer shipping and tourism company (based in Wolgast , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) operated the ship. In the main season it drove on the Vorpommerschen Bodden , Peene , Achterwasser and Stettiner Haff . Day and evening trips, family celebrations, company outings and other charter trips took place under Captain Jan Fransen. Home port between October and March remained Leer / Ostfriesland, where it was looked after and used by the association "Friends sailing schoner Weisse Düne eV".
In June 2011, the White Dune was sold to long-time captain Jane Bothe. The crossing to Greifswald took place in October 2011. In 2017 the ship was used for tourist trips on the Peenestrom between Karlshagen , Neppermin and Wolgast .
literature
Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 3-7688-0483-6 .
