"Blood & Plunder Ships for Dutch" Topic
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marco56  | 12 Oct 2019 7:22 p.m. PST |
What would be a good ship to use as a Dutch ship 1610-1640 period that explorers/merchants might use along the North American coast?
Mark |
| Thresher01 | 12 Oct 2019 9:15 p.m. PST |
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| HMS Exeter | 12 Oct 2019 9:24 p.m. PST |
Bark or Tartana/tartane. I'd do some research on sail rigs. In the New World the tartane was often single masted. Shifting Lands in The Netherlands do a "botter" coastal boat, but it's likely too small for gaming and ordering from SL is a bit of an odd experience. |
| HMS Exeter | 12 Oct 2019 9:25 p.m. PST |
+1 Thresher, but the Fluyt is more ocean going. Not so much a coaster. |
| marco56 | 13 Oct 2019 7:25 a.m. PST |
I was looking at B&P's fluyt as it is a Dutch ship.This is more for a diorama than game playing.
Mark |
 Yellow Admiral | 13 Oct 2019 8:54 a.m. PST |
The fluyt was canonically Dutch, and ubiquitous across the world's oceans. It's hard to find anything more "Dutch" at sea. |
| Sigwald | 13 Oct 2019 6:04 p.m. PST |
Plus the fluyt that Firelock Games makes is Bee-utiful. |
| Henry Martini | 13 Oct 2019 6:26 p.m. PST |
Some years ago a replica of the barque 'Duyfken' (Little Dove) visited this city's port, and I, along with hundreds of others (but not all at the same time) had a wander around it. It was armed – with a number of swivel guns, as I recall. The original ship was used by Willem Janszoon on his explorations of the northern Australian coast in 1606. |
| marco56 | 13 Oct 2019 7:17 p.m. PST |
I will probably get the fluyt.
Mark |
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is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those.
