our boat



( see modifications / repairs to the initial / buying status at the bottom )



Our boat is a ”Van de Stadt 34” type.

Van de Stadt is one of Netherlands most reputable yacht designers, who sells quite a number of stock plans to self-builders and has made many successful designs for other commercial shipyards.

The previous Dutch owner of our boat has bought the plans from Van de Stadt in 1990 and has let manufacture the hull and the interior insulation at a commercial shipyard. Then he started to complete the boat by himself, what took him almost 6 years. The boat got completed and watered in 1966. The previous owner sailed the boat for some time at the Netherlands close ocean and the Ijsselmeer, but later – as he told us – did not have enough time for the boat and decided to sell it finally.

The boat has the confirmation of Van de Stadt as being built according to the plans and requirements of the designer.




Short, but not complete, description of the boat:

The only thing that we really miss is an electric anchor winch which will be difficult to install because of the missing power lines from the batteries to the bow.

The boat is registered with the Austrian Ship Register, officially licenced for world-wide offshore sailing for a crew of 4 (I applied only for a crew of 4, although the design would allow also a crew of 6).

We consider the boat as a fast, safe and seaworthy going yacht, due to the presently limited tank capacities only we would not consider it for world wide sailing, however sufficient for all European oceans.

Over all, the boat fulfills 80 % of our requirements, the design and the finishing fits us 100 %, however there is too much electronic and electric equipment on the boat – apart from the missing electric anchor winch - which will require most probably much of maintenance and renewal – and much headache.

Although the sailing rig is designed for one hand sailing, it is very sophisticated to be operated by one person.


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modifications / repairs :
2009: deletion of the solar panels at the sides, mounting of electrical lines for an electric anchor winch; painting of the sides above water line; sale of the dingy; repair of the diesel filler pipe; 50m 8mm anchor steel-chain added;anchor roller repaired; 16kg Delta anchor instead of the 10kg Bruce in the bow and further use of the Bruce as additional anchor; complete maintenance of the YANMAR engine (made in Poros/GR); purchase of a 2nd hand cutter sail
2008: purchase of a 2,5 HP outboard motor JOHNSON (=Suzuki) for the dinghy (two times, as one has been stolen at the Houtribhaven at Lelystad-Netherlands), BOUVAAN-Windvane, windgenerator "AIR BREEZE", Navtex NASA Clipper, 2nd anchor 14 kg with 35m anchor line; handheld GPS Explorist 100 ; renewal of the antifouling and painting of the water line - GEONAV 4 GIPSY chartploter (this was necessary as the installed GPS did not work anymore when mounting the mast in Port St.Louis; renewal of the sprayhood;
2007: the electronic chart plotter had to be removed because there were no more charts available for it, the new plotters use different cartrigdes (anyway, I feel more comfortable with paper charts)- the existing communication radio had to replaced by a new one with DSC, for the old one without DSC I did not get a licence anymore - additionally we have now a mobile communication radio which turned out to be very useful when passing lockers or entering harbours - the electric toilet has been replaced by a JABSCO manual toilet, this works now properly - the electric cabeling has been overhauled and the mess in all the cabeling got mostly cleared - a new shelf for books got mounted as well as a hold for my notebook - additional to the electric Fluxgate Compass a mechanic one got installed