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