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Beurtveer vanuit Heeg en Balk - Friesland / The Netherlands -
Bicycle- and pedestrian ferry from Heeg to Balk
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Rolleiflex 3.5F - CZ Planar - Ilford XP2 Super
Collection Amsterdam Museum.
At left The IJ, (the roads in front of the town) is just visible behind the bridge. The high masts of the ships anchored there are recognizable.
A yacht in the left foreground with a peculiar form. The bow has the features of a yacht-boyer, but the after end is built up high and looks like a fluit [english: flute] a Dutch cargo ship that was popular in the 17th century and which had a round stern and a very narrow uper deck.
A cargo hooker, buss or hoekerbuss is moored at the other side of the canal flying the flag used by the British merchants of that time. The royal coat of arms is on the ship's transom. These ships made regular crossings to London as ferries which transported goods and passengers. The skippers were united in a 'beurtveer' where Dutch and English skippers sailed on a regulated time-scheme. Even when the ship was partly loaded they had to leave on time.
A very small pleasure boat is just returning from the IJ with mast down and rowed by a man in the bow.
The other yacht, the boeier, moored at left, is ready to be turned by the small tender at its side that will tow the yacht round in the canal. A richly clothed man with a wig, probably the owner, is standing in the cockpit. Two ladies are approaching on the quay.