Sailing story's Amsterdam
Did you hate the 'Patriotic' history hour at school? Could be, and probarly you didn't learn much from it.
Shame! but i have a fix;
With my barge I will sail you through the story of Amsterdam & surroundings and tell you a good story.
That's more inspiring than that graying sock in his tweet jacket in front of the blackboard.
Sail;
Amstel & IJ, Western & Eastern port area, IJburg & Pampus.
Stories
To put it politely, the Netherlands is a cultural landscape, which means it is created and designed by its inhabitants.
This also applies to Amsterdam and its surroundings
Who were those residents over time and why did the city and surrounding area take the shape they have today.
Boattrips harbour, IJburg, Pampus
The Eastern Docklands.
From a swampy reed land with a farmer and a fisherman here and there to a seaport for the expanding shipping industry.
And finally transformed into a successful living/working area.
The ports on the east side of the city were built because the Ooster and Westerdok became too small for the larger seagoing vessels and the ports were increasingly busy.
After the Second World War, the Eastern Docklands experienced a brief revival, but around 1970 the activity was almost over.
From then on, passengers traveled by plane from Schiphol and freight traffic concentrated in Havens West.
The abandoned area was taken over by squatters, artists and urban nomads.
They laid the foundations for the new function of the sites with empty warehouses and office buildings, namely housing and small-scale work.
Land in sight!
New land created from the old seabed of the Zuiderzee with a new Amsterdam city area in the IJmeer.
Where 25 years ago birds and fish had a living from now on people live there.
Divided over artificial islands in the IJmeer
De Hoop op Behoud sails withe you around these new city islands.
As early as 1965 there was a plan to build a city here for no fewer than 350,000 inhabitants!
But the municipality opted for so-called 'overflow locations' such as Purmerend, Almere and the construction of the Bijlmer area in south east.
In the 1990s, this proved insufficient and, despite a referendum on the construction lost by the municipality, it was decided to build IJburg.
Fortunately not for 350,000 but for about 50,000 inhabitants, otherwise there would be no water left for the birds, fish and boating.
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Pampus
From that good old Zuiderzee( Southesea now IJssellake)You used to be able to sail straight on to America
No dike or dam stopped you.
But watch out!, the enemy could also sail in that way.
That is why a fort was built in the Zuiderzee on a sandbank with the nickname Pampus to protect Amsterdam against an attack from sea side.
Pampus used to be a sandbank where you had to wait for high tide if you wanted to sail to Amsterdam.
Fort Pampus was built on that sandbank at the end of the 19th and early 20th century as part of the defense line of Amsterdam.
Not a shot was ever fired and the fort fell into disrepair.
Now it is a museum attraction.
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Sailing funeral Amsterdam
A funeral on board the 'Hoop op Behoud'
After passing away the deceased started his 'utevaer' which means the last journey.
The way to the cemetery then often went by boat because that was the most obvious way of transport in our watery country before the arrival of the car.
Amsterdam and the surrounding area has a number of cemeteries and/or crematoriums on or near navigable water.
I take the deceased and the next of kin on board the 'Hoop op Behoud' and we sail to the cemetery or crematorium.
To bring your loved one away as a relative in the informal atmosphere of a sailing boat gives connection and I hope also consolation.
"For me funerals are the best thing to do because it makes my sailing live"
meaningful.
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Boatinfo+ food&drinks
'De Hoop' can carry a maximum of 60 passengers for a short tour.
For longer tours, 35 passengers is a pleasant number.
Sailing area, the city center of Amsterdam + the rest of the Netherlands.
The ship can be opened completely - without a tent roof or windows - and completely closed again and all stages in between. 'In half good weather, half open'.
There are 2 toilets on board and a well equipped galley.
You will make the best boat tour with the 'Hoop' from the city center to the surrounding area'. For example to Ouderkerk, Weesp or Pampus.
History Hoop op Behoud ex Cornelia Wilhelmina at the bottom of the page
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food products
Sandwiches
Grilled vegetable and pesto sandwiches
Veggie burger sandwich baked on the grill on board.
Avocado, tomato and cheese sandwich
Soup, tomato cream, cucumber, zucchini, mushrooms.
Snacks
vegetarian bitterballen,
Empanada's.
taco chips with salsa and guacamole
Crudite
Bread with delicious olive oil and sea salt or spread
Ship's meal
Captain's Dinner, Capuchins with Piccalilli!
Paella
Dahl with naan bread
Vegetarian rendang with rice and atjar
Thai curry
Stews
summer
Endive with mushrooms
Spinach with onion and curry
winter
Stew
Dutch Pea Soup
Sauerkraut
Hot lightning
Meal soup, Snert, Kidney bean soup, Italian Minestrone soup.
DRINKS
Coffee Tea per jug
Carafe flat water
Wine per botle
Beer per vial
Genever per glass
Bearinburg per glass
( Widow Joustra)
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Cornelia married Pieter Cornelis a skipper in January 1893.
They had 5 children of which the eldest boy Gijsbert went on board to assist his father.
In 1896, Pieter had a new Paviljoentjalk built at the shipyard and machine factory Boot in Alphen a.d. Rhijn for sand and gravel sails on the major rivers.
The ship was named after his wife Cornelia Wilhelmina.
In the night of October 19, 1910 a disaster occurred, the ship sank in the Rhijnhaven of Rotterdam.
Pieter and his eldest son Gijsbert could not be saved and drowned.
Reason for the widow Cornelia Wilhelmina, who had lost both her husband and son, to sell the ship.
The new owner gave her the name Hoop op Behoud.
In 1976 I bought what was left of her after a round of remediation due to the scaling up in inland shipping and rebuild her until my sailing houseboat.
But I dare not change that name, which seems too God-fearing to me, because under that name it has floated under all circumstances since more than a century.
When I started working for the Amsterdam water taxi that had just come into service in 1987, I sailed the 'Hope' to Amsterdam and converted her from a houseboat to a passenger ship.
This is how she became active again in professional shipping.
This time not with sand & gravel or bricks, but with Amsterdam passengers for their wedding, birthday or funeral.
The kind of city dwellers who "didn't want to be found dead in such a "glass bin" (tourboat).
This is also, less pronounced,the case for company events, which want a 'nice boat', not a tour boat.
'De Hoop' is an attraction when she sails through the city and she fits well.
With these kind of ships, the bricks were transported from the brick factories along the major rivers to the city in the purpose of urban expansion.
Tourists often photograph and film the 'Hoop' and look with delight at her appearance, but they have never been on board to this day, since the year of her launch 1896.
She is not very suitable too for tourist transport and I would like to keep it that way because it is still a really robust (cargo) ship in terms of atmosphere, although she currently sails with passengers.
For 30 years now she has been a bastion against the flat commerce that has gripped the city center.
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Bart info
I enjoy sailing to be outside at the tiller (the rudder).
The wind around my head and sometimes the rain in my face, gives me the feeling that I am alive and that the world is wonderful.
Plus I like to tell stories.
In word and image, sailing through Amsterdam and surroundings, the story will tell itself by what you see.
The city and its surroundings are connected to each other, because a city simply needs a countryside to exist.
You make the best boattour when you start in the city and moor there again after you made the tour through the countryside.
My ship the 'Hope op Behoud (Preservation'
It was built as a (sailing) freighter and I have preserved that character as best as possible.
No trumpery with lacquered slats and fragile tea service on board my robust barge.
But oak tables and porcelain tableware that can handel a bump
'bartje'
As a snot, I was afraid of water.
With no stick I couldn't get into a steel steel rowing boat, I knew 'steel sinks'!
I hadn't heard of Archimedes law yet and I dismissed the parental plea that it would really work out as 'an opinion'.
After much frightened struggles, I finally learned to swim well and Dad bought a toddler sailboat for his sons and himself.
That whas'nt a success, on the maiden trip we capsized and Dad's pedagogical gifts were at such level that brother and I decided to set off from now on without paternal interference.
That went better, and the sailing boats became bigger and faster,in the meantime I was a the sea scouts member.
No longer a sea scout for years, I was "infected" by friends from that time with a sailing houseboat, I immediately thought 'I want that too!'
That is how I became Bart Boot with a sailing houseboat that I converted into a passenger ship for Amsterdam and the surrounding area.
theT(j)alk of the town
The municipality and the inner city residents would like much cleaner air in the inner city.
Part of the plan to achieve this is to electrify the tourboat fleet + all other boats that sail with passengers for companyevents, weddings, birthdays and funerals.
An understandable and good aim, they do that in Giethoorn;
And the air there is clean and fresh. (Perhaps that's the reason why all those Chinese city dwellers hop on a boat there)
But Amsterdam is not Giethoorn and fortunately not Venice (yet).
Electrification means taking a large battery pack on board in order to have a reasonable range.
That battery weight runs into the thousands of kilos of extra weight, so in addition to your passengers you also transport a lot of "freight".
There are boats in Amsterdam where a passenger accommodation has been built on top of the 'cargo ship' for the batteries.
Is that progress lugging around with those batteries?
More than a century ago, the first cars also ran on batteries, but they were soon exchanged for the much more practical combustion engine.
Now electric seems to be the holy grail again, but that impractical heavy battery has remained in as energy storage
Hydrogen seems to be the energy storage of the future, but “the law and practical objections” prevent the rapid introduction of this promising gas.
Until then, we better do everything we can to get rid of our energy addiction.
That immediately saves a lot of emissions and money and you don't need any new and/or promising techniques.
For the time being it is better to strive to eliminate the disadvantages of the internal combustion engine.
In the first place by only allowing stationary (1 fixed speed) very clean engines with low power. In combination with the cleanest possible synthetic fuel.
And if extra power is needed for maneuvering, it can be obtained from a modest battery pack.
Costs Renting a boat with crew "costs expensive".
Yes it is, but you also get something for it, a nice sturdy boat, a nice crew (m/f), a nice boat trip and a good memory.
So don't miss it and get on board because 'your good money,' you can only spend that after all.
The prices include VAT and tourist tax.
Architecture trips.
'From abandoned port area to a new residential area'.
KNSM - Java - Sporenburg 1.5 hours sailing incl coffee, tea, water & gingerbread
at 20 € 30, p.p. - 30 pax € 20, p.p. - 40 pax € 15, p.p.
Tourist tax €1.50 p.p.
Get on and off the Zouthaven at Muziekgebouw a/h IJ and Bimhuis.
Tram 26 1st stop from CS.
IJburg, 'new land insight!'
3.5 hours sailing incl. coffee, tea, water and gingerbread.
20 pax € 55, p.p. 30 pax € 36.50 p.p. 40 pax € 27.50, p.p.
Tourist tax € 1.50 p.p.
Get on/off at the Muziekgebouw a/h IJ - Bimhuis Tram 26, 1st stop from the CS
Pampus, 'a fortress on a sandbank'
Half-day cruise of 5.5 hours including coffee, tea, water and gingerbread.
for 20 pax € 58.50 p.p. - 30 pax € 39 p.p. - 40 pax € 29.50 p.p.
Admission to Pampus adults €14 per person. Children up to 13 years €10.50 Museum card free.
Tourist tax € 1.50 p.p.
Getting on and off Muziekgebouw a/h IJ Bimhuis Tram 26 1st stop v.a. the CS
Funeral, please ask for a quote; One funeral is not the other, so I can't give a fixed amount for it.
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Food and drink
food products
sandwiches € 8.50 p.p.
soup €6.50 p.p.
snacks, €5.50 p.p.
ship's meal €17.50 p.p.
Meal soup €13.50 pp
drinks
coffee & tea per jug €15
water by bottle/carafe €4,50
wine by the bottle €27,50
beer by the bottle €3,50
genever per glass € 3,50
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Bearinburg per glass €3,50
Do you want a quote? go to Contact and fill in the form there.
Before you pay, read up on 'shipping discipline' and you will know what you are getting yourself into.
'The ship discipline'
1 I do not sail with unsavory or socially hostile organizations and groups;
Because I hate bigotry.
2 You can have a chat or play music on board, but I don't want to be able to hear it outside the boat.
3 While sailing, no one on deck or when the tent is down is allowed to stand on the stairs or a chair.
My point is that if you 'head' a bridge, the consequences can be serious and the fun of the boat trip is gone.
If you can find yourself in these 'three commandments' you are very welcome on board!
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Nice sailing and enjoying is one thing, but which sailing trip do you go with?
Just assume that it will work out anyway, regardless of your choice because it is 'different' on a boat,
You are all in the same car and dependent on each other.
That makes it a bit exciting and fun because you are sailing all together apart from the world.
Have you made your choice but still have doubts, send me an email.
Promise, I'll answer that quickly. Bartboat@freedom.nl
Have you made your choice and would you like a quote, please fill in the form below and email it to bartboat@freedom.nl
If you agree with the quotation/confirmation, I will send you the invoice.
"Pay it Forward!? “
Yes, that saves me a lot of administrative hassle and if your trip unexpectedly suffers damage, then 'not good money back!' applies.
Once you have paid the bill, your cruise is confirmed.
Before you request a quote, read up on 'ship discipline' and you will know what you are buying.
"The Ship's Discipline"
1 I do not sail with unsavory or socially hostile organizations and groups; Because I hate bigotry.
2 You can have a chat or play music on board, but I don't want to be able to hear it outside the boat.
3 While sailing, no one on deck or when the tent is down is allowed to stand on the stairs or a chair.
My point is that if you 'head' a bridge, the consequences can be serious and the fun of the boat trip is gone.
If you can find yourself in these 'three commandments' you are very welcome on board!
"The Ship's Discipline"
1 I do not sail with unsavory or socially hostile organizations and groups; Because I hate bigotry.
2 You can have a chat or play music on board, but I don't want to be able to hear it outside the boat.
3 While sailing, no one on deck or when the tent is down is allowed to stand on the stairs or a chair.
My point is that if you 'head' a bridge, the consequences can be serious and the fun of the boat trip is gone.
If you can find yourself in these 'three commandments' you are very welcome on board!