Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Balder"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2013,
10/2013
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2014,
10/2014
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2014,
10/2014
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2015,
10/2015
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2017,
10/2017
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Brandarisrace 2018,
10/2018
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Balder |
| Ex-names: | Goede Verwachting |
| Registered port: | Stavoren |
| Nation: | NL |
| Type of rigging: | TJALK |
| Year built: | 1899 |
| Yard: | De Goed, Zwartsluis, NL |
| Length: | 22.00 m |
| Breadth: | 5.00 m |
| Draught: | 1.00 m |
| Sail area: | 200 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 11 Mar 2014
- built in 1899 at the shipyard De Goede in Zwartsluis, NL as cargo ship for the Dutch coastal and inland waters, first name was "Goede Verwachting".
- 1951 installation of a gear on the deck (Humbold Deutz Diesel, 20 hp).
- transport of grain, feedingstuff, chemical fertiliser, cement and timber.
- 1978 converted to a passenger ship, used on the Dutch coast till the Baltic Sea and Denmark.
- 1990 renamed the "Balder" (godhead of the Vikings).
- since 1997 owned by Paul Bakker, used in the charter business.
- participation in events for Dutch flat-bottom ships at the Dutch coast.
Contact:
Website (deutsch/nederlands, 20 Mar 2021):http://www.debalder.nl/down
Tjalk Balder: history and photos of the ship, offers for sailing, contact