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  1. A Dutch armed trader (pinas) 1671

    Here my latest pinas, a model I built several times in my life. Of course it is made of paper and card. Due to the lousy summer we had here it took me two months to build. Pictures by Emiel Hoving
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  2. A 160 feet long VOC East-Indiaman (paper)

    This model was created after original written sources from the Dutch East-Indiacompany (VOC). In 1697 the managers established the measurements for three charters 'retourships'. I created lines plans and built a model of the next 160-footer to be built in Amsterdam: 'Generale Vrede' from 1699. The name refers to the Peace of Rijswijk, which ended the 9-Years War (1688-1697) between France and almost the entire rest of Europe. Although the shape of the ship is historically correct, the decorations are products of my imagination, as no image of the vessel survived.
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  3. Another Dutch fluit

    Since my small collection of fluits (and some more ship types) left me for a new life in the Archaeological Museum Huis van Hilde in Castricum, Holland, I felt the strong urge to create another one. My house without a fluit seems too empty and cold :-).
    Here it is. As always, the build of the paper hull was a breeze, took no more than 3 weeks, but the rigging is another story. It's long and demanding and I would surely skip the whole proces if not for the incredible reward of looking at a model that suddenly came to live.
    I hope you like it as much as I do.
    Ab
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  4. Dutch fluit ca. 1660

    Here some pictures of my latest paper/card model of a Dutch 17th century fluit. The design was based on a sketch in Nicolaes Witsen's book Aeloude en Hedendaegse Scheepsbouw en Bestier (1671) (Old and modern shipbuilding and managing). Measurements: length 120, beam 22 and depth in hold 11 1/2 Amsterdam feet (33.96 x 6.23 x 3.25 m). The scale is 1/77, giving a total length, including the rigging of 57 cm.
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  5. Some men-of-war around 1660

    First an English 4th rate: Lennox after Richard Ensor's book The Restoration Warship.
     
    The first Dutch one is a 142 foot long ship, called Akerboom (Oak tree)
     
    The second one is a 160 foot long warship called Alkmaar . Although several Alkmaar s sailed for our fleets, none of them matches this model.
     
    Oh, I forgot to mention. They are made of paper and card.
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  6. Dutch 17th century workhorses

    Here is a small collection of 17th century Dutch vessels. Some are for inshore use, some for coast traffic, some really crossed the seas. They all have in common that there is no showing off. They were just tools and that's how they were used. The yacht is the only exception in this row of models.
    Nevertheless they can be held responsible for most of the trading success the Dutch achieved in the 17th and 18th century.
     
    The models were made of paper and card after data I found in contemporary literature. Paper allows the model builder to build remarkably fast. These models were all made within two years (and there are more). They are all in the same scale: 1/77.

    This is a 'smalschip'. Inshorevessel, about 70 feet long

    A Galjoot (galliot) small trader

    A Hoeker, Fishing vessel for cod and haddock

    A 'buis' (buss) for catching herring

    A Kaag for transport of people.

    A 'waterschip', a fishing vessel for the 'Zuiderzee'.

    A 'wijdschip' (wide ship). Same type as the smalschip (narrow ship), but too wide to pass the Dordrecht locks, so it had to sail 'outside the dunes'.

    a small fluit, based on footage of a wreck in the Baltics at 120 meters deep.

    A whaling fluit, reconstructed after literature.

    a 'pinas', an armed trader.

    A yacht, used by officials.
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  7. Another Dutch fluit

    Hereby my last three-masted ship model. It is 125 feet long fluit for Atlantic shipping. The setting of the sails was inspired by a Van de Velde painting of de Liefde, a man-of-war shortly before it was burned in the Four days battle (1666). The name of the fluit is 'Abraham's offering', after an original fluit's taffrail that is kept somewhere in Denmark.
    Together with three other models this one will go to museum Kaap Skil in the isle of Texel. 
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