Other Peoples Photos 44

Here’s the index to all the preceding posts in this series, and I’m grateful to all for sharing.

If you suffer from perfect photographic memory, then the ferry in the middle distance under the bridge will serve as a clue to the location of this shot;  it’s a water bus, an efficient conveyance of passengers along the waterways that make up the Rhine delta in greater Rotterdam.  You saw it here . . . scroll through to the sixth photo. The tug in the foreground is Broedertrouw 4.

Here’s Lekstroom V,  Broedertrouw 4 and a bow.

Tailing is Broedertrouw XIV.  And if you click here, you’ll see the same vessel towing what HAD BEEN the largest yacht to date built in the Netherlands, Symphony.  But in this series, you’ll see an unfinished project that promises to be 8.5 meters longer than Symphony . . . a full 360′ loa for this new project!

the unnamed, project number 714 for now. Oceanco is the manufacturer, and here are many smaller yachts.

The yacht does not move me, although I’d love to tour the project as the different specialized craftsman complete the job.

I’d love, however to work on these inland tugs for a while.

Many thanks to Jan Oosterboer via Fred Trooster for these photos.

 

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What a concept . . . all you can eat pancakes while motoring around Dutch waterways!

Aurora is a Cargill-operated cocoa tanker.  Read the faint print on the starboard side of the tank.

Aqua Shuttle in Rotterdam and

Waterbus.

School ship Princes Beatrix.

City Supplier . . as its sibling Beerboat keeps trucks out of the narrow streets in Amsterdam.

Colorful housing near a maritime school over on the north side of the Ij

is actually repurposed containers.

Two more work boats for now:

Scheurrak is a survey boat.

I love leeboards and the really upswept bow.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, and I have more from the gallivant, but they may have to wait to late next week.