Click here for the Wikipedia entry on the Skûtsje.
Warning: The following video is for sailing geeks like me, who would watch an excellent 1/2 hour documentary in another language, just to marvel at the shots of these work boats racing under sail. I wonder if we will ever see a version with English sub-titles?
I've dragged over some comments from Rik who sheds some more light on the following video:
"Even if you knew Dutch you would still miss more than half of the video. They speak Fries which is spoken in Friesland. My Grandmom came from there...The story is about the sometimes opposing issues related to traditional skutse sailing versus bringing the boats and crew to a much higher competitive plane.
4 comments:
Thanks for this post. I love these boats.
Thanks Rik. Wish I knew some Dutch so I could get a better feel of the history behind racing these working scows. Here in the Mid Atlantic U.S.A. we have our traditional race boats, the log canoes with planks.
Those look like very fast yawls... Very simple replacement for trapezes.
Even if you knew Dutch you would still miss more than half of the video. They speak Fries which is spoken in Friesland. My Grandmom came from there. I do not speak any Fries but the looks of this video makes the seawater in my veins move faster.
The story is about the sometimes opposing issues related to traditional skutse sailing versus bringing the boats and crew to a much higher competitive plane.
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