Flat-bottomed craft · Netherlands
Albatros
A sea tjalk of 1906 that sailed to England, up the Elbe and into the Baltic.
Technical data
- Rig
- Flat-bottomed craft
- Flag
- Netherlands
- Built
- 1906
- Shipyard
- de Bos, Lemmer/NL
- Hull material
- Steel
- Length
- 22.73 m
- Beam
- 4.9 m
- Sail area
- 190 m²
A sea tjalk built in 1906 by de Bos at Echtenerbrug near Lemmer. The type is larger than an inland tjalk but smaller than a kuff tjalk.
In earlier days she sailed along the coast — to England, in the North Sea, on the river Elbe and in the Baltic.