| Passaat |
The Passaat can accommodate a maximum of 28 passengers. The spacious saloon has four tables with comfortable seating arrangements, a fully equipped galley with fridge-freezer, a gas cooker and a 70 litre oven.
There is also a beer pump. The cabins have double, insulated walls, are spacious and fitted with bunks (2.00 m x 0.75 m) complete with duvets. Each cabin has its own wash basin with hot and cold running water, a cupboard, clothes hooks and storage space for bags. The entire ship, including the cabins, showers and toilets, has central heating. Above deck there is a tween deck with benches providing a safe and sheltered spot while under sail.
There is a beer pump on the Passaat for which you can order 20 litre barrels of beer on board.
   
Technical specifications
Length 33 m
Breadth 6 m
Draught 1.30 m
Sail area 420 sqm
Engine 200 hp Daf
History
In 1900 Marinus Boertien commissioned the building of a fast clipper with sleek lines. The result was the Passaat, a 33 m long and 6 m wide clipper, originally named “Margiena,” a combination of Marinus’ and his wife’s names.
The clipper carried freight on the rivers in the south of the Netherlands until the 1950’s. In the 1930’s an auxiliary engine was fitted with a side propeller. In 1964 the last Boertien skipper gave up transporting freight.
Following a complete restoration this beautiful clipper has now been refitted for charter sailing. Welcome on board the Passaat
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The Passaat |
Captain: Frank Fischer |
2 nd captain: Frans Fischer |
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