1919 sailing cargo

Ships are the main mode of freight transport in the Netherlands. For most skippers this is a free but hard life. They often work day and night, for in unfavourable weather there is no sailing and no income.

Lucas Otter from Giethoorn buys the ship in 1919, and changes the name into Catrina, after his wife. He sails out mostly with peat, and on the way back he carries whatever is on offer.