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wanneer de Zee een weynigh ongestuijmigh is soodanigh arbeyden ende slingeren dat alles moet bersten Scheuren en breecken watter aen is . De Cameel (ID:), for instance, sent to Asia in , was already called an old ship in (Colen- brander , p. ). . The ship der Goes (, ID:) was feet with a beam of feet. The charter in for big yachts was by feet. The vessels Groene Leeuw (ID:) and Sterre (ID:) purchased by the VOC, were regularly called yachts and measured by and by feet respectively. . In making this classification, the first premise was that yachts would be reasonably easy to group according to their ‘lastmaat’. Based on the frequency of a certain ‘lastmaat’ it was hoped to determine the common size of big, medium and small yachts. The reducing frequency from one group to the other was expected to set the limits for a certain category. A complicating factor was that peaks in the frequency of lastmaat were also influenced by the ‘political’ assignment of a size due to the ‘egalisa- ties’ system. . Although this was an argument used by the VOC for maintaining the blockade, Van Veen believes that the reason for the drop in exports to Portugal is to be found in the deterioration of the Portuguese shipping organisation (Van Veen ; ). . NA .., factory Japan , --. Vroegh omtrent ses uijren sont den gouverneur quiemonsamma den offona met alle tolcken bij mijn en liet vragen hoe het quam dat in plaets van fluijt scheepen (die voor desen ordinarie plechten in Japan te comen) nu altemael zulcke groote Jachten ende spiegel scheepen herwaerts gesonden wier- den, want verleden jaar hadde zijn Ed:t onder de acht scheepen die hier geweest waren, niet mee dan eene fluijt Namentlijck de koninck davidt bevonde, ende soo hij bericht was stont er dit jaar niet een fluijt meer, maar altemael sulcke groote oorloghs Jachten (als hier nu lagen) te verschijnen, waerop deselve antwoorde gaf, om dat de fluijt.scheepen die eenige Jaaren herwaerts in dit vaerwater en tot desen handel waeren gebruijckt geweest, als de witte Valck, 't witte paert, Campen, Hillegaersbergh, de pellecaen, Coningh davidt, en meer andere meest alle afgevaren en van ouderdom vergaen waren, zulcx die geene diemen noch eenigh sints bequaem oordeelde, en in stille vaerwateren konden geb- ruijckt werden, anders nergens toe en dienden, als om steen en hout tot batavias timmeragien te halen, ende omdat ons dit jaar apparent oock geen nieuwe fluijten uijt nederlant souden zijn toege- zonden geweest soo hadde d'Ed=le H=r generael nootsaeckelijck dese jachten (die noch nieuw hecht en sterck waeren om in dit ongestuijmige vaerwater een storm te konnen uijtstan) moeten ordineren herwaerts te zenden met welck bescheijt die quel geesten weder te rugh naar gemelte gouverneur gingen. . The yachtsDelft \[ID , lost in the Moluccas \] Enckhuysen (ID , lost in Ternate \] and Me- denblick \[ID , returned to the Netherlands in \]. . Arend (ID:), after military actions at Mosambique and Goa visited the Cormandel coast and sailed via the Moluccas to the Philipines where the yacht was lost by fire in a fight against the Spanish in . Griffioen (ID:), after military actions at Mosambique and Goa, took part in the action near Malacca and later made a trip to Patani and Japan. Ended its career in the Moluccas in . Pauw (ID:), operated together with the other yachts, also took part in the action near Malacca, escaped from the fight in the Philippines and was in use in the Moluccas till . Valk (ID:) same career as ID , was taken by the Spaniards in the fight in the Philippines. . The Supply and Blessing (Rate ) were captured together, the Blessing was renamed the Avondster and wrecked years later in . Bruijn et al (-; . and .) propose that Der Goes (ID:) and Der Goes (ID:) are the same vessel, and that this was the second trip of this yacht to Asia. Der Goes \[ID:\] returned to Zeeland four years prior in . From the resolution of the Heren XVII (NA..., VOC , -- ) and the list of ‘egalisatie van de timmeringe’ (NA .., VOC , --), it is concluded that the Der Goes (ID:) was newly built. It had the following dimensions: length feet, width feet, and draught , feet, height of the ‘coebrugge’ a little less then feet. . Amsterdam feet of . metres. . The lastmaat of the der Goes was last according to the charter of building (NA .., VOC , fol. ) though it only was registered in the egalisaties as last. . Dimensions from primary sources are mentioned following the th century units. For length, beam and draught feet are used. Estimated dimensions are in modern units. Since only the lastmaat of the Duyfken is known, the reconstructed length is given in metres. . Also named Arrakan. Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters
