Tjotter
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A tjotter is the smallest of the open round Fries sailing ships with a length on the stern not exceeding Script error: No such module "convert"..
The ship has no roundwood and it has a wide helm. The head of the rudder is usually decorated with a sculpture, sometimes in the form of a bird.
Originally, the tjotter was used in Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands, for small-scale transport of goods and people at a time when there were few roads. A tjotter with the size Script error: No such module "convert". in Friesland is called a "fjouwer-yacht". At the wharf of Pier Piersma, fjouwer-yachts are still commonly built.
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Hou Moed from the stern
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Carved date 1887
