BOTTER
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:17 pm
The Sail 85 stamp of the Netherlands shows us the upper part of the sails and rigging of a botter.
BOTTER: An old Dutch-type shallow draught fishing vessel that dates back from around 1600.
She was well known and used by almost all the fishermen around the ports of the Zuiderzee as a fishing vessel (the Zuiderzee is now Ijsselmeer after it was closed by a surge dam de Afsluitdijk in 1932)
The Botter was heavily constructed carvel-planked with a flat or V-shape bottom with a slightly protruding keel and angular bilge strake that pass into a bull-bows side, which bulwarks above the wale inwards curved.
The botter has a high round, broad stem, and a low stern. Carried long narrow leeboards.
She is steered by a prominent hatched rudder with a tiller.
Decked forward and a small stern deck, with a life well in the amidships, to keep the fish fresh. (there were also North Sea botters she was fully decked with a cockpit for steering.)
Heavy un-stayed pole mast which sets a boomed mainsail, curved gaff sail, a foresail, and sometimes a long triangular sail hoisted to the mast and boomed out aft for added speed when homeward bound.
Two botters in combination were trawling a net between them, one botter was built for left-hand fishing while the other was fitted out for right hand fishing.
Around 1800 there were 500 registered in the Netherlands, when the Afsluitdijk transformed the sea in a large lake many fishermen had to look for other work.
Around 1915 motors were installed.
The type still exists (around 60) but is not more used for fishing and many have been converted into a yacht.
Length about 9 – 18 meters, and carried a crew of 2 – 5 men.
Netherlands 1985 70c sg?, scott673.(the design drawing after the stamps were made shows us that the botter rigging was used in the design.
Netherland 2014 booklet 10 x 1 sg?, Scott?, and a stamp from the booklet sg 3075, scott?
www.postzegelontwerpen.nl ) 1985 65c + 35c sg1553, scottB645
Source: Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft. Zeilvaart Lexicon. Various internet sites.
BOTTER: An old Dutch-type shallow draught fishing vessel that dates back from around 1600.
She was well known and used by almost all the fishermen around the ports of the Zuiderzee as a fishing vessel (the Zuiderzee is now Ijsselmeer after it was closed by a surge dam de Afsluitdijk in 1932)
The Botter was heavily constructed carvel-planked with a flat or V-shape bottom with a slightly protruding keel and angular bilge strake that pass into a bull-bows side, which bulwarks above the wale inwards curved.
The botter has a high round, broad stem, and a low stern. Carried long narrow leeboards.
She is steered by a prominent hatched rudder with a tiller.
Decked forward and a small stern deck, with a life well in the amidships, to keep the fish fresh. (there were also North Sea botters she was fully decked with a cockpit for steering.)
Heavy un-stayed pole mast which sets a boomed mainsail, curved gaff sail, a foresail, and sometimes a long triangular sail hoisted to the mast and boomed out aft for added speed when homeward bound.
Two botters in combination were trawling a net between them, one botter was built for left-hand fishing while the other was fitted out for right hand fishing.
Around 1800 there were 500 registered in the Netherlands, when the Afsluitdijk transformed the sea in a large lake many fishermen had to look for other work.
Around 1915 motors were installed.
The type still exists (around 60) but is not more used for fishing and many have been converted into a yacht.
Length about 9 – 18 meters, and carried a crew of 2 – 5 men.
Netherlands 1985 70c sg?, scott673.(the design drawing after the stamps were made shows us that the botter rigging was used in the design.
Netherland 2014 booklet 10 x 1 sg?, Scott?, and a stamp from the booklet sg 3075, scott?
www.postzegelontwerpen.nl ) 1985 65c + 35c sg1553, scottB645
Source: Aak to Zumbra, a Dictionary of the World’s Watercraft. Zeilvaart Lexicon. Various internet sites.