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Houseboat Walking Tour

Houseboat Walking Tour

houseboat walking tour

our walking tour begins 4 maintenance shipyard every 3 to 6 years for with the canal route, which Immediately after the bridge on the maintenance. provides answers to many of Berenstraat, across the canal from the questions asked about no. 447, you will see Liève, a French 5 mooring spot living on the water. the tour ship that dates to 1926. When After no. 337, there are no then continues with the the ship has to go to the shipyard, houseboats in the canal until the route, featuring nine the large pilothouse has to be Westerkerk church. Houseboats have extraordinary houseboats. dismantled so that it can fit under fixed berths which are included in don’t forget to mind the (bike) the bridges. In the case of smaller the zoning plan. There are currently traffic. enjoy! boats, the roof of the pilothouse is about 900 houseboats in the city lifted off by hand, after which the centre – that is the maximum canal route (2 km) hinged walls are folded down. A number permitted. In some canals, start: houseboat museum houseboat which has a substructure there are no houseboats at all ( 296k) that can rust must be taken to the because the bridges are too low. 

BROUWERSGRACHT 1 utilities HET IJ Gas, water and sewage hoses run CENTRAL between the water’s edge and the PRINS STATION Hendrika Maria. Electrical and HENDRIKKADE 13 telephone lines are strung above 9 PRINSEN 10 12 street level. To prevent freezing, the STRAAT HEREN sewage and water hoses are insulated 8 STRAAT 11 and fitted with heat ribbons.

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2 ark, schark or ship NIEUWENDIJK 6 NIEUWE These are the three basic types of houseboats. After walking 150 metres, look left from the bridge on WARMOESSTRAAT 5 DAM the Runstraat and you can see an ark, DAMSTRAAT NIEUW schark and ship, one after the other. MARKT

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SPUISTRAAT KALVERSTRAAT BEREN WOLVEN 1 STRAAT STRAAT KLOVENIERSBURGWAL LANGE 3 BRUGSTEEG GRIMB OUDE URGW RUN HUIDEN AL STRAAT 2 STRAAT TURFMARKT STOPERA 15 NIEUWE CITY HALL DOELENSTRAAT 14 MUNT PLEIN 16

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3 shock absorbers NIEUWE KEIZERS Lying opposite Prinsengracht 509 GRACHT WATER 18 is a lead-clad schark, which is ROADS / BRIDGES MAGERE protected from the wall by shock WALKING ROUTE BRUG AMSTEL absorbers. They ensure that a little CONNECTING ROUTE (2 KM) VIJZELSTRAAT VELD CARRÉ

bit of waves will not cause your TRAIN TRACKS 21 coffee to slosh out of your cup. 1 POINTS OF INTEREST 22 20 19 AMSTEL VONDELPARK If boats cruise past faster than APPROX. 100 M ACHTER GRACHT the permissible 7.5 km/h, shock © Houseboat Museum 2014

absorbers aren’t sufficient. This map is a general representation. UTRESCHTSESTRAAT Houseboat Museum Amsterdam Prinsengracht 296K 1016 HW Amsterdam The www.houseboatmuseum.nl Window in the ‘Amsterdam School’ style

Point of interest 4: The pilothouse of Liève being dismantled Point of interest 15: The Wiekslag

6 pilothouse shape of the ark. Locals refer to this Lying directly opposite the Westerkerk boat as the Cigar. is a hagenaar, the same kind of ship as the Houseboat Museum. This 10 most popular snapshot particular ship dates to 1906. At a Amsterdam’s most photographed certain point, its sails were replaced by houseboats lie to the left of the a motor and the mast and boom were bridge over the Keizersgracht. A Point of interest 8: A concrete frame can also fl oat removed. This makes it look a lot more number of these were once sailing bare, though it does have pilothouse. cargo ships. The canals used to be the Cat Boat, a world-famous shelter full of these kinds of ships. for stray cats since 1968. Each year, 7 bridges and water level the Cat Boat fi nds owners for over All 252 bridges in the city centre 11 MS SUZANNE 250 animals. have been assigned a number (look Lying across the Singel canal opposite for the number “61” in white on the no. 98 is Suzanne, a motor barge from metal undercarriage of the bridge). 1923. It has a lovely window which amStel route (1,5 km) The vertical clearance is known for dates from the time when the boat start: groenburgwal 65 each bridge. Because the water level was used by prostitutes. fl uctuates, this must be taken into 14 smallest houseboat account when the houseboat is being 12 donald duck boat Lying opposite no. 65 on the towed – otherwise the boat might Lying across the Singel canal Groenburgwal is the smallest get stuck. This can be prevented by opposite no. 17 is De Nieuwe Gerrit, houseboat on the route. The taking tubs of water on board to a ship quite like one you might see drawbridge chain is adorned with serve as ballast, which will cause the in Donald Duck. It looks like a real hundreds of padlocks, put there by boat to lie deeper in the water. ship, but it can’t sail under its own sweethearts as a symbol of their power. It was built to be a houseboat undying love. After attaching the 8 concrete frame and has a spacious interior, with locks, they throw the keys into the Houseboat no. 213M has a concrete vertical walls instead of the curved canal. frame, which means it will not rust walls that characterise a ship. and therefore doesn’t need to be 15 amsterdam school taken to the shipyard. Lying opposite 182 is the white-green Wiekslag, 9 the CIGAR which was designed in 1924 by A.P. From the Prinsensluis bridge, you Smits in the ‘Amsterdam School’ will see a houseboat to the right that 13 the C AT BOAT architectural style. The decorative deviates from the typical “shoebox” Lying next to De Nieuwe Gerrit is façade is characteristic of this style. Point of interest 21: De Dogger, originally used as a freshwater hauler Drawing Jan Bouman, 1954

Point of interest 20: Bridges arches designed for the grain lighters 16 cutter Lying immediately before the Blauwbrug is a cutter. It is exceptional in that most of the boats along the quay are former barges that are no longer seaworthy. This ship is too large and has too much of a draught for the canals, but that’s no a problem on the river Amstel. Point of interest 18: A pontoon bridge 17 VICTOR IV Lying immediately after the Blauwbrug John’). Just like Victor IV, the opposite Café Marcella, is De Dogger, is a Groningen tjalk, with decorative owner was fond of using discarded a ship with a wooden superstructure. lanterns. The American artist Walter materials. Jantje was featured in Until 1888, the ship was used to Glück, who went by the name of Victor a TV series about Ramses Shaffy, transport clean water to the Amstel IV, constructed a world made out a famous Dutch singer who had Brewery. The Dogger family later of discarded materials. He drowned once briefl y lived on a houseboat. bought the freshwater hauler to use next to his boat in 1986. His fl oating Houseboats are frequently used as in their fuel trade. Amstelveld was legacy of huts, chickens and goats television and movie sets. the site of coal and peat trading at has almost completely disappeared. the time. After the emergence of 20 grain lighter natural gas, De Dogger was converted 18 bridge ship The Broedertrouw, which lies into a houseboat. It would be The ship opposite no. 57 on the opposite 17, was used wonderful if this fl oating monument Amstel dates to1857 and was one of to transport grain. This type of ship were to be renovated. several bridge ships that were used once had rounded hatch covers. to span the river Waal. There was Bridge arches in the city’s canals 22 rajpootana enough room between the bollards were designed for these wooden Lying just beyond De Dogger, on the to serve as a road. hatches. This is the last example of opposite side of the Prinsengracht, this ship type known to exist. is a creatively styled houseboat with 19 JANTJE stained glass windows. Extra living Lying opposite Achtergracht 31 is 21 freshwater hauler space was created by building above the hippy houseboat Jantje (‘Little Tied up by Amstelveld, diagonally the boat frame at both ends. ￭

Houseboat Museum Amsterdam Prinsengracht 296K 1016 HW Amsterdam The Netherlands www.houseboatmuseum.nl

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