Barquentine · Netherlands
Abel Tasman
A 1920 barquentine converted from a freighter. Charter sailing on the IJsselmeer.
Technical data
- Rig
- Barquentine
- Flag
- Netherlands
- Home port
- Hoorn
- Built
- 1920
- Shipyard
- F. Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, GER
- Hull material
- Iron
- Length
- 49 m
- Beam
- 6.77 m
- Sail area
- 620 m²
- Sailing area
- IJsselmeer
This iron vessel, built in 1920 at F. Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, began life as a freighter. She was converted into a barquentine in the late 1990s and now carries guests on the IJsselmeer.
She is named after the Dutch navigator Abel J. Tasman (1603–1659), who reached Tasmania and part of present-day New Zealand in 1642 and, a year later, became the first European to visit Tonga and Fiji.