Lauwerszee
Sporty, comfortable, with real character.
Multi-day trips:
20 guests
Day trips:
36 guests
Lauwerszee is a comfortable clipper with excellent sailing performance. A beautiful, traditional look — combined with all the comforts of today.
Sailing
Lauwerszee is a wide clipper with manageable rigging. Its width provides plenty of space and great stability. Thanks to smart adaptations, the ship can be sailed well with a relatively small crew — and for sporty sailors there’s still plenty to do (extra sails? yes please).
Below deck
Warm, spacious and cosy: at the bow you’ll find a generous saloon with lots of seating — exactly what you want after a day outside on the Wadden Sea.
Saloon & open galley
Next to the saloon you’ll find a spacious, well-equipped open galley. Including, among other things, a dishwasher and a 6-burner gas hob with a large electric oven.
Cabins
Lauwerszee has twenty berths divided over seven cabins. All beds are fully made up, including duvets. All cabins have central heating, running water and a washbasin.
Layout: 4 × double cabins and 3 × four-person cabins.
Bathrooms
Lauwerszee has one spacious bathroom with shower, washbasin and toilet, one bathroom with shower and washbasin, and one separate toilet.
Crew
Skipper Erik de Boer
Overview
Everything you want to know at a glance: capacity, comfort and on-board facilities.
Capacity
20 berths, 36 guests on a day trip
Day space
Spacious saloon, plenty of seating, central heating, sound system with Bluetooth, board games
Galley
Two sinks, 6-burner gas hob, large electric oven, three fridges, freezer compartment, dishwasher, stick blender, hand mixer, Bravilor coffee machine and a mobile beer tap on request
Cabins
Made-up beds with duvets, large washbasins with running water, reading lights, a porthole that can be opened and central heating.
Layout: 4 × double cabins and 3 × four-person cabins.
Bathrooms
Two showers with changing space, two toilets
On deck
High railings around the ship, wide side decks and plenty of deck space, cockpit seating, rain/sun canopy,
cushions and fleece blankets, gas barbecue.
Sails: mainsail, jib and staysail. Electric leeboard winches.
Safety & navigation
Certified passenger ship that complies with all safety regulations.
Life jackets (including children’s sizes), AED, fire alarm panel, CO detector, FirePro.
Compass, GPS, AIS, VHF (2×), binoculars, paper and electronic nautical charts.
Technical specifications
- Type: Single-masted clipper
- Sail area: 300m²
- Length: 25.91m
- Beam: 5.80m
- Mast height: 23m
- Draught: 1m
- Average sinkage: 0,74m
- Displacement: 76 tonnes
- Built: 1915
- Shipyard: Boot te Vrijenban
- Engine: John Deere 6068DFM
- Power: 130 hp
De Hoop
Lauwerszee was built as ‘De Hoop’. In 1915, skipper Lambertus Cornelis Maasbach had the iron clipper ‘De Hoop’ built for his youngest son, Gradus Theodorus, at the shipyard ‘Boot te Vrijenban’ in Delft. De Hoop was built to a design dating from 1892. The keel of De Hoop was laid on 20 May 1915. The ship was launched on 7 October. In those days, she carried coal, sand and gravel.
