Price Details
Price: £5,750 GBP
Location: Conyer, Kent, GB.
Make: Friesch Tjotter
Year: 1975 ( unknown)
Condition: Restored and well maintained.
Category: Small Boats, open sailing dinghy
Class: Dutch styled Pleasure craft.
Keel Type: flat bottomed. Pair of Leeboards
Description
A Traditional Dutch styled 6m GRP open sailing dinghy. – a Friesian Tjotter. Rig Type: Gaff Sloop 154 sq.ft (14.6 sq.m)
Tan sails, pair of leeboards. The builders specify her weight as 385kg, to be sold with her road trailer .
Sat ashore under cover on her trailer, found to tow easily with a medium to large sized family car.
Aqua Sprint Co Ltd built around eight Friesch (Friesian) Totters, during the late 1970s early 1980s, using GRP moulds imported from Holland. They fitted them all out to a very high specification at their workshop in Teynham, Kent.
The vessels all featured lots of oak ornate carved work in the traditional Dutch style, using the best materials and fittings.
Her wooden varnished spars were made by Alan Staley of Faversham. The Traditional tan sails by Wilkinson Sails in Conyer, Kent.
Klaartje (pronounced klar-chee) had been kept on the rivers Stour and Orwell prior to her present ownership.
Klaartje is easy to rig and interesting to sail, she draws very little and is quite stable with her wide beam, flat bottom and leeboards.
Well suited to sheltered coastal waters or lakes, rivers and estuaries, easy to trail.
She can be launched and recovered from her purpose built trailer whilst keeping the wheel bearings dry.
An interesting traditional vessel that attracts attention wherever she goes.
Length
Nominal Length: 4.80m 15ft
Length Overall: 6.00m with bowsprit
Length Of Deck: 4.80m
Measurements
Beam: 1.08m
Draft: 0.30m
Air Draft: 8m
Max Draft: 0.30m
Keel Down: 1.02m
Dry Weight: 385kgs
Passenger Capacity: 4
Builder/Designer
Builder: Aqua Sprint
Designer: John Hunt
Boat Name: Klaartje
Hull
Hull Material: Fibreglass
Hull Design: GRP Displacement hull with Leeboards
Construction:
Aqua Sprint, imported the GRP from Holland, designed by John Hunt. and then fitted out to a very high specification at their
workshops in Teynham, Kent.
An open boat with removable hatch boards across creates a flush deck, removable exposing a deep cockpit for passengers or stowage of cargo.
Ornate carved Oak features in the traditional Dutch style using the best materials and fittings.
Refitted by her present owner 2025/26.
He replaced the Oak centre thwart which supports the mast case and replaced the forward deck area and refitted the forward hatches as well as other refurbishment.
Equipment:
Detachable outboard bracket on her stern. Purpose built trailer, recently serviced.
A fitted cover for use when stored ashore. A Carved wooden tiller, a rudder attached via pintles to her transom.
Engine Description: An outboard. Possible by separate negotiation.
Sails & Rig
The vessel is rigged as a Dutch gaff sloop with a short bowsprit.
Her spars were made by Alan Staley of Faversham and sails by Wilkinson Sails in Conyer, Kent.
The mast is unstayed and supported in a tabernacle secured within a
substantial wooden thwart in the traditional manner.
The tan sails are very traditional with tapered boltropes with eyelets worked into them (not stamped into the cloth)
and where reefing points are fitted (2 rows to mainsail, and one row to large foresail)
they are 3 strand polyester with all end individually finished with a sailmakers whipping
Sails: All made by Wilkinson 6.5 oz dark brown Terylene all in good condition , hand finished with tapered bolt ropes with eyelets worked in,
Mainsail has two rows of reefing points and the luff is held to the mast with lacing and parrel beads. Large jib has one row of reefing points. no reefs on a small Jib.
Mast and Spars: Varnished made from solid spruce, traditional Dutch curvy gaff is made from laminated spruce.
Mast is unstayed and stepped in an oak case fitted in a substantial oak thwart and can be easily lowered by block and tackle on the forestay.
She has a steel bowsprit, which can be removed easily to reduce overall length and is stayed with solid steel shrouds and bobstay.
Standing Rigging Material: Galvanised wire forestay
Running Rigging Material: Synthetic rope
Another example of type sailing on the Thames.
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