For the boatless a bit of Dutch boat porn to dream on

[Norm L.]

I got this first one today. Before Covid messed up life's scheduling we would normally be on our way to Holland around now. This is a photo of one of an antique boat owners club boats arriving for the first meeting of the sailing year. It is waiting for the drawbridge to go up so it could enter the towns guest docks where the collection will be amazing. I'll see if I can get some photos from that area.
This is across the canal from the house where we stay so there is a constant view of traffic in this busy yacht and commercial cross Holland canal.

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[Timm R Oday25]

Thank you for bringing us along . THe last boat has a boom for the jib . It's connected to the mast . Any chance to see how the sail attaches ? 

[Charles Brennan]

Norm, Whenever I see traditional boats on the water, or fine furniture in antique stores, I can't help but think that somehow we've lost something, somewhere.  It just seems to me, that people used to live their lives with a LOT more panache, back in a by-gone Analog Age.
Since my own boat is nearly half-way there in age, I wonder in another 50 - 100 years, what reception or feelings, Classic Plastic boats and Ikea chip board furniture is likely to engender.
I'm guessing, not the same feelings we enjoy, when seeing these boats.
Loved the carved Duck on the rudder stock.

Thanks for the pics,
Charles Brennan

[Norm L.]

Timm.  Many Dutch sail boats, old and new, have a tabernacle set up so that the mast can be laid down. This is necessary for travel on some canals where the boat has to pass under a non-opening bridge.
From this view I'm not sure of the jib boom connection. It looks like the white part is a forked shape fitting on the tabernacle. But that would only allow vertical movement and the butt of the mainmast to rise up below it when the mast is laid aft but no horizontal movement of the mast boom.

While I've never seen one that looks like that, it is not a jib boom but the lever arm to control the lowering and raising of the mast.
Here are some other versions, including a modern boat. The one with the a-frame is rare.


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[Riley Smith]

That's some serious hardware up near the bowsprit!

[Norm L.]

The winch on the A-frame to lower and raise the mast. And some muscle on the winch.