Der Zeesenkahn vom Stettiner Haff: Bericht über die Rekonstruktion

Abstract

Measuring more than twenty-two metres in length, outfitted with leeboards, and rigged with two lug sails and a foresail, the Zeesenkahn trawlers sailed as fishing vessels until the prohibition of trawlnet fishing in the Stettin Lagoon in 1908. The destruction taking place in the period around 1945 did not leave photographs and models untouched. Virtually nothing in the way of technically utilizable documents has come down to us. Along with sketches and eight pages of notes documenting a conversation, a number of drawings based on knowledge of boat construction and executed at the behest of the occupying power served as the basis for the technical reconstruction of the sailing vessel presented here, whose tradition extends as far as the Mediterranean.