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A 'tjotter is the smallest of the open round Fries
Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known as Frisia. In order to distinguish it from the other Frisian regions, it is commonly specified as Westerlauwer Frisia, Westerlauwer Friesland, West Frisia or West Friesland....
  sailing ships
Sailing ship

Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a full rigged ship of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant....
 with a length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
 on the stern
Stern

The stern is the rear or aft part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail....
 exceeding 5.4 m.

The ship has no roundwood
Roundwood

Roundwood is a village in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. It was listed as having a population of 518 in the census of 2002.File:RoundwoodPub.JPG...
 or. It has a wide helm
Helm

|-|align=right| |}Helm may refer to:a ship's steering mechanism; see tiller and steering wheel . Derived meanings:* The verb meaning steering as in "to helm a yacht"....
. The head of the rudder is usually decorated with a click
Click

Click may refer to:...
 where a bird is outstretched.

Originally, the tjotter was used in Friesland for small-scale transport of goods and people at a time that there were only few roads. A tjotter with the size 4.8 m x 2.4 m in Friesland is called a "fjouwer-yacht".

At the warf of Pier Piersma, fjouwer-yachts are still commonly build.








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A 'tjotter is the smallest of the open round Fries
Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known as Frisia. In order to distinguish it from the other Frisian regions, it is commonly specified as Westerlauwer Frisia, Westerlauwer Friesland, West Frisia or West Friesland....
  sailing ships
Sailing ship

Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a full rigged ship of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant....
 with a length
Length

Length is the long dimension of any object. The length of a thing is the distance between its ends, its linear extent as measured from end to end....
 on the stern
Stern

The stern is the rear or aft part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail....
 exceeding 5.4 m.

The ship has no roundwood
Roundwood

Roundwood is a village in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. It was listed as having a population of 518 in the census of 2002.File:RoundwoodPub.JPG...
 or. It has a wide helm
Helm

|-|align=right| |}Helm may refer to:a ship's steering mechanism; see tiller and steering wheel . Derived meanings:* The verb meaning steering as in "to helm a yacht"....
. The head of the rudder is usually decorated with a click
Click

Click may refer to:...
 where a bird is outstretched.

Originally, the tjotter was used in Friesland for small-scale transport of goods and people at a time that there were only few roads. A tjotter with the size 4.8 m x 2.4 m in Friesland is called a "fjouwer-yacht".

At the warf of Pier Piersma, fjouwer-yachts are still commonly build.

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