
Regional ship type
Botter
Fishing, family labour and the changing Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee coast
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Regional boat traditions shaped by European waters
Image de la collection : Merlijn 'valhallasw' van Deen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image recadrée. Vue complète et contexte dans le dossier.
Explore 34 European boat traditions, from Dutch working craft and Nordic open boats to Mediterranean fishing families. Each type is distinguished from its named surviving examples.
"A ship type has a regional history; each surviving boat has a separate identity."

Regional ship type
Fishing, family labour and the changing Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee coast
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From the northern Zuiderzee fishery to a diverse sailing tradition
Lemmer & the former Zuiderzee
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Cargo, household and competitive sailing in Friesland
Friesland
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A sturdy working tradition of the Scheldt estuary
Scheldt delta
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A fishing-boat family from the eastern edge of the Zuiderzee
Eastern Zuiderzee
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Pleasure sailing within a long Dutch tradition of rounded craft
Friesland & Dutch inland waters
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Cargo under sail across the estuaries of south-east England
Thames & east-coast estuaries
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A cargo hold, a great sail and the waterways of the Broads
Norfolk & Suffolk Broads
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The east-coast herring fishery seen through a sailing drifter
Scotland’s east coast
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A Scottish herring boat that combined familiar ideas in a new hull
Moray Firth & Scotland’s east coast
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Sail, fishing communities and a surviving Cornish working tradition
Cornwall
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A fishing port’s design carried into a wider maritime world
Brixham, Devon
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A west-coast boat connecting cargo, community and sail
Galway Bay & Connemara
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A light boat and the knowledge carried along Ireland’s Atlantic shore
Ireland’s Atlantic coast
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Northern Norway’s coastal world in a family of open boats
Northern Norway
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A Norwegian boat tradition sustained through the act of building
Bjørnafjorden, western Norway
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Four oars, small cargoes and the fjord as a road
Norwegian coastal waters & fjords
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A shallow-water fishing boat from Séné and the Morbihan
Séné & the Golfe du Morbihan
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Fishing power and sailing revival between Cancale and Granville
Cancale & Granville
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The sardine fishery in the shape of a Douarnenez boat
Douarnenez, Brittany
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A lagoon boat at the meeting of agriculture, painting and local identity
Ria de Aveiro
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Port wine, a mountain river and a boat made to carry casks
Douro River
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The making and maintenance behind Venice’s most familiar boat
Venice & its lagoon
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An Adriatic working boat read through surviving museum examples
Northern & central Adriatic
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Small coastal craft and the boatbuilding memory of Liguria
Ligurian coast
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A Maltese working boat beyond its brightly painted image
Maltese islands
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Passenger crossings and the everyday geography of Malta’s harbours
Grand Harbour & Marsamxett
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A Komiža fishing tradition with two working configurations
Komiža, island of Vis
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A wooden boat, a town and a community’s safeguarding project
Rovinj / Rovigno, Istria
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Greek wooden boatbuilding explained through hulls, models and tools
Aegean & Greek coastal waters
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A working hull shaped by the Scheldt delta
Zeeland & the Scheldt delta
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The carrying craft of the Dutch inland waterways
Holland, Friesland & the inland waterways
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A boat family and a sail tradition along the western Mediterranean
Catalan coast & the Balearic Islands
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Painted sails and the working waters of the northern Adriatic
Chioggia & the northern Adriatic
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