Dutch pirate-hunters!

Now that would be a well built boat. DeVries perhaps? My cousin is Captain aboard of a 90 ft Feadship built in the mid ' 80s. There were two built to look like Rybovitch Sportfishermen. They were the first sportfish boats Feadship had built since the '50s. I have sailed aboard of her from Florida to Rhode Island and from North Carolina to Fla. What a vessel!! From my experience with Dutch Boats, sail and power, they have been outstanding. VanDeStat designs have been built by so many people and have been able to cruise them extensively. I had an experience with a 1920s sailboat built for DeVries of Black Iron! It had an ancient gas motor with a magneto. The mast was on a tabernacle with great gears so you could easily raise and lower your mast. The "downside" for selling this boat was the interior was "Spartan" at best! Oh but she'd last a long time! Thanks for the picture. I hope I never have to see the bow view over my stern!

The P27 (Police patrol vessel) was build in 1998 by Damen Shipyards in Gorinchem (the Netherlands).

In 2008, the ship has been sold to Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management), and repainted: Click