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Why is it that American tourists feel they have to indentify themselves as American , while in another country ? Removing the Dutch flag from the boat you have just rented seems very odd to me . Not that anyone in Friesland will mind .You will have a great time in a very rural area where the...

Interesting , when we looked for a Dutch boat 3 years ago we considered Linssen quite expensive compared to many other smaller Dutch boat builders . We visited the factory and had a very impressive tour , everything is built and designed in house . The people we met were very helpfull . Most...

Stabicraft is a very popular brand here in Kiwi land. They are made in the very Southermost town of the South Island called Invercargill, since 1987. Very popular with fishermen in coastal waters. As Bill has already pointed out their smallest model starts at 14 “ and weighs 500 lbs Recommended...

Vripack What a great boat ! Our Vripack is 49 ft but single story , so much less interior space .I suspect yours is like ours designed by Dick Boon the original founder of Vripack . Many similarities to Zeemeermin. Wishing you as much fun as we are having with ours , down under !

Hi Sailor of Fortune Zeemeermin is a Vripack 1500 Continental Kotter design, hull 15. She was custom built in the Netherlands, all steel. This is a photo of her in her original marina in Zeeland, the Netherlands. Wilfried

Pier H37. Logging and Mussel barges passing regularly.

Never too late Pete ! I am an ED doc in Wairau , plenty of specialists and GP vacancies here . Wilfried

Hi Bill. What a coincidence. Our kotters must have passed each other in the middle of the Atlantic. As we had not seen our boat in the flesh before arrival, our biggest challenge was to familiarise ourselves with the systems quickly. The man on the freighter was happy to hold the lines for 15...

Hugues, thanks for your nice comments. Vripack is indeed one of the largest and most innovative design studios in Holland. They have done some amazing superyachts, but ours is a traditional design done by Dick Boon, the founder of Vripack. I think he is now retired. We love the abundance of...

Thank you all for your warm welcome. Ted, she cruises at 7.5 knots at 1500 rpm. Herewith some interior shots of the pilothouse.

Having enjoyed your discussions for about a year, I thought I might post something about ourselves, even though we probably don't have "a trawler". We live in Havelock in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and are sort of part-time liveaboards in the summer. Our boat is a Dutch steel...