Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Passaat"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Passaat
Ex-names:Texel no 2, Weser no 3, Flevo, Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena
Registered port:Enkhuizen
Base port:St. Maarten
Nation:NL
Type of rigging:SCHONER
Year built:1910
Yard:Bodewes, Martenshoek, Groningen, NL
Overall length:36.00 m
Length (hull):26.20 m
Breadth:6.20 m
Draught:3.20 m
Sail area:550 m2
Ship's hull:Stahl / Steel
Power:375 PS
Engine:Caterpillar

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 16 Jan 2011

  • built as a real Dutch pilot schooner and operated first by pilots of Texel before sold to Germany and operated in the Weser estuary.
  • used during the war as a German observation ship and outpost cutter in the Deutsche Bucht, after the war back to Holland.
  • fitted with an engine and removal of the masts, replacement of the wooden hull by steel, used in the fishery.
  • 1963 replacement of the transom stern by a round stern.
  • restored to a schooner for passenger sailing in the early 1970s, renamed "Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena".
  • charter trips to the southern North Sea, the Channel, the North Cape and Mediterranean from 1976.
  • fully overhauled in Zaandam, NL in 1991-1992, lengthening of the hull and reconstruction of her original shape of the stern, converted to a luxury sailing ship for charter trips.
  • since 2008 she offers day sailing trips in the charter business.

Literature for further reading:

We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 248 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
(ex-Name Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena)

Beken of Cowes, Eric C. Abranson
"Segelschiffe der Welt"
Edition Maritim 1995 ISBN: 3-89225-314-5
(engl. Originalausgabe: "Sailing Ships of the World", 1992, Thomas Reed Publications Ltd.)
Page: 200 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
(ex-Name Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena)

"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact
(ex-Name Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena)

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 277 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
(ex-Name Vrouwe Geertruida Magdalena)