Drascombe Longboat Cruiser:
The Drascombe is a very handy boat with a small cabin.
Because of its very low draught an ideal little boat for the shallows.
Wit centre-plate down 1,27 meter and up 0,30 meter. A ship which takes any shallow: when everybody is still waiting for the water to rise or has stopped for the falling water, the Drascombe sails in unhindered. When you touch ground you step over board and you push your Drascombe to a patch of deeper water.
The well-known Dutch columnist H. Vandersmissen has written already many a story about his adventures with special little boat.. (a.o. The Shallow Sea Drascombe,)
The main characteristics of the Drascombe are besides its low draught, the second mast with a mizzen as sail and a "papegaaienstok" as boom. Furthermore you can row or scull with a Drascombe. In shallow waters the rudder has to be taken out and one of the oars is subsequently possitioned on the transom , serving as a rudder. Just like in Venice .
The Drascombes of Waddeninzicht have two bunks. The 3 Drascombes which have to that effect a hammock on starboard, also have a porta-potti. Furthermore a cooking-chest with burner, kichen stuff, crockery and cutlery is part of the standard out-fit. The Drascombes have been fitted out with many watertight store barrels with screw-lids., ensuring that clothes and other small stuff can be stored away dry.
Although you can come a long way on the oars the ships have been fitted out as well with a 4 horse-power engine with light-spool enabling re-charging of the lights-battery.
Technical specifications
Beam: 2 meter
Length over deck: 6,63 meter
Length on waterline: 5,50 meter
Weight: 480 kg
Hull: GRP / polyester
Sail-surface: 15,1 m2, divided over mizzen, furling-jib and main-sail without a boom.
Draught: 0,30/1,27 meter
Air-draught: 7,00 meter with gaff up and 5,50 meter on the engine.
Shipsnames: Black Swan, Snowgoose, Sonblest, Parahandy
Inventary Drascombe:
| 1 (coocking)chest for storing crockery and pans |
2 small plates |
| 2 flat plates |
2 mugs |
| 2 soup-bowls |
2 glasses |
| 1 washing-up basin |
1 washing-up brush |
| 1 dish-cloth |
1 (floor-)cloth |
| cutlery for 2 persons |
1 parting-knife |
| 1 serving-spoon |
1 soup-spoon |
| 1 wooden-spoon |
1 tin-opener |
| 1 corkscrew |
1 Interior-lamp, loose |
| 1 oil-lamp |
7-pieces pan-set |
| 1-burner stove |
1 jerry can 16 ltr for drinking-water |
| 1 Thetford toilet (porta-potti) |
8 sealable 8 ltr pack and stow away barrels |
| dust-pan and brush |
cabin-wall organiser |
Equipment Drascombe:
| 1 compass |
1 barometer |
| 1 set distress-signals |
1 (sealed) First-Aid kit |
| 1 chart Wadden East 1812 |
1 chart Wadden West 1811 |
| ANWB Friesland chart chart with signs and abbreviations |
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| 1 chartplotter |
1 manual operating-regulations for marifoon/vhf |
| ANWB water almanac (part 1 and part 2) |
1 VHF (only suitable for listening -in and emergency) |
| 1 GPS |
1 radio |
| 1 fire extinguisher |
1 black cone |
| 1
outboard bucket |
1 brush |
| 1 black cone |
2 black spheres |
| 2 anchors strengthened anchor-line with chain |
2 mooring-pins |
| chain |
5 mooring-ropes |
| 4 fenders |
1 ships-horn |
| 1 jerry can 5 ltr for petrol |
1 search-light |
| 1 lifeline |
1 flag-pole with national ensign |
| 1 radar reflector |
1 boat-hook |
| 1 life-buoy with light |
1 emergency swimming-ladder |
| 1 set keys with key-ring |
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To take along yourselves:
Bedding; sleeping-bag, sheets (if desired pillow and pillow-case)
Towels, dish-cloths, spirit
VHF- operating certificate and perhaps a yachtsman-certificate
Life-Jackets:
Life-jackets: Each crew-member should have a life-jacket! These are also for rent from Yachtcharter Waddeninzicht.
For children upto 13 years of age these will be provided for free.
13 years and older: Normal life-jackets € 4,- per week
Inflatable life-jackets € 7,50 per week
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