Gezonken Bootje

Somehow, almost every picture on this blog seems to feature either a coot or a duck, but this one has both.

where: Oudezijds Achterburgwal @ Oude Hoogstraat

The good folks over at HoosJeBootje send us this picture. HoosJeBootje is the company you call if your boat is featured on this site. No ‘gezonken bootje’, not even those that are gone forever, they can’t get up and running again.
Anyway, Sander of HoosJeBootje, says of this picture: “The wooden boat “De Swaen” crashed on a sunny afternoon, two weeks ago on the Prinsengracht. The complete bow cracked and it had a hole in it thru which a person could swim in… We lifted it and transported it to a shipyard.”

where: Prinsengracht

What I like about this boat is that it somehow keeps struggling to stay afloat, if only a tiny piece of it’s bow.

where: Leliegracht between the Herengracht & the Keizersgracht

Looks like a polyester boat, which supposedly almost never sink. The only thing floating on this thing is that pallet, which under normal circumstances is used to keep your feet dry.

where: Keizersgracht @ the Wolvenstraat

What better use for an old surfboard than to house a few endangered city ducks

where: Lijnbaansgracht

This note was attached to a cruiser on the westerkade

Dear boat owner,

This boat is now on the mooring place of my sloop (see car tire). My boat is temporarily sunken but is really still here (see chain). So he your boat is on top of my sloop. I would like to hoist my boat out of the water this saturday and put it back in its place. Could you moor your boat somewhere else by that time?

Thanks and greetings
Roger

where: westerkade (see it on a map)

This is not really a "gezonken bootje" of course, it's still floating, but whether it will one day sail again, that I doubt.

If you look closely you'll see a little note attached to the top of the white cabin. Of course I was very curious as to what the note said. I imagined an angry neighbor telling the owner to move this piece of shit somewhere else.

What did the note say?

You'll have to wait till tomorrow…

where: Westerkade (see it on a map)

Gezonken Bootje has been vlogged bij MobuzzTV. Check it out. By the way, gezonken=sunken, boot=boat, bootje=small boat

And now, that we’re on the subject: can somebody please explain why I am getting a huge amount of visitors from Hungary. Do you guys have Gezonken Bootjes in Budapest? Is the Blue Danube as vicious to bootjes as the canals of Amsterdam?

Can anybody tell me what all that brown stuff is inside this boat.

where: Keizersgracht

Cycling along the Egelantiersgracht (see it on a map) this morning, I spotted some people pointing to a coot’s nest built upon some old, floating car tires. Mother coot had apparently left the building. What’s more: she had taken all her offspring along but for one tiny, wretched baby coot (a ‘zieligje the Dutch would call her). This one had to fend for herself.

I walked over to the other side of the canal to get a better look. Baby Coot made heartwrenching beep-beep sounds. (more…)

This is an interesting derelict because the cause of its downfall is rather mysterious. If you look closely you'll see that the hull is in tiptop shape and the tarpaulin to keep the rain out is still properly attached to the boat. So what made this one go under?

where: Keizersgracht between the Leidsegracht and the Vijzelstraat

Is it floating or hanging on the ropes? I really like the way the edges of this boat are balancing around the water line

where: Oudezijds Achterburgwal

Another duckboat, they make great rest area's. The ducks love 'em.

where: Prinsengracht near the houseboatmuseum

This is all that rests of… Yes, of what? Could have been the prettiest boat of Amsterdam. Who knows. Come to think of it: pretty dumb to attach the gastank to the quayside instead of outboard engine or the boat itself.

where: Prinsengracht

This has been a speedboat. Once. Now, more than ever, there is need for speed. A couple of weeks more and this one is gone.

where: Groenburgwal