Rigged wooden model of a single-masted Dutch fishing vessel, called a ‘Marker waterschip’.
A carvel-built double-ender with a high, almost vertical stem, and a falling straight sternpost. At the stern a broad rudder with a wooden tiller is positioned. The model has one deck and a deckhouse that covers a cabin. The cabin is completely panelled with galley, bunks and cupboards. The deckhouse is clinker built and of the curved shape typical for vessels of this type, and has a small chimney on top. Forward against the deckhouse is a windlass. Further windlasses are in the bow and in the stern, and three small ones on the after deck. The model has two anchors. The sheer rises steeply towards the bows. The hull is round with a keel. The model is rigged with a sprit rig, carrying the mainsail and foresail.
The model was bought by the Department of the Navy, together with model numbers NG-MC-1087 and NG-MC-1091, from the collection of J. Schouten in Dordrecht in 1861. The ‘Marker waterschip’ was originally a fishing vessel with a well or fish box for holding a live catch, its design is related to that of the botter, but it is without leeboards. They fished with trawl nets and were very fast sailers. From the seventeenth century onwards they were also used to tow ships in camels across the Pampus.
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