Lugger

Logger ( also Lugger or lougre ) originally referred to a historic ship type of the 18th century, with a wide variety of use, and later a related type fishing boat on the North Sea.

In the 18th century

The logger of the 18th century was used as a quick post, Caper, pilotage or coastal cargo ships. In fisheries, the " lougre " or " Chasse Maree " by the French fishermen channel was used in their fishing Iceland.

Typically, the logger was dreimastig, the two front towers were folded and the little mizzen mast was extremely far to the rear. On all three masts of the logger with the so-called lug sails, a kind of square sail was (forward sail ), whose yards were not fixed in the center, but on a third of the length of the mast equipped. These sails can also be regarded as a simplified gaff sail.

The fishing logger

In the 19th century formed the spread in the North Sea fisheries logger. 1866 came the Dutch shipowners Adrien Eugène Maas to the conclusion that the rapid French logger should be better suited for herring fishing with herring drift nets than the previously gewesenen in use, relatively slow and sluggish Buisen and Hoeker. He bought in Boulogne -sur -Mer, a three-masted logger and let absorb " 1 Scheveningen SN " of Vlardingen from the herring fishery him as. Due to good fishing success he built the following year in Vlardingen two other loggers which " Hollander " and " Arnoldine Marie". The ships were 17 m long and 5.55 m wide with a depth of 2.40 m. Was completely changed the Sails: the ship was now like a ketch rigged, namely zweimastig with a mainmast and an offset far to the rear much smaller mizzen mast, each with gaff sails and three - or four-cornered Großtop or Besantopsegeln. It was proposed to call this fishing vessel type as " Maas cutter", but that does not prevailed. Instead, it stayed with the name "Logger ", though this boat with the French lougre has almost nothing in common except its origin.