The Wuta Leeuwarden / Netherlands description:The Wuta is a river fisherman boat from 1930. Wuta is a Dutch Abbrevition for 'Wacht Uw Tijd Af' - Wait your time. This type of ship usually was anchored on the Meuse and Waal. In some thirty feet long 'just' go with the flow caught the fish passing on the river. After fishing these ships were towed away, so there never sails hung on masts. The beginning of this type of river fishing was around 1900, in the area of Moerdijk. Later it went higher and higher up the river, and after 1915, even to the Upper Rhine. The families of the fishermen living on board. The high times of this river fishing was between 1910 and 1943 when the entire fleet consisted of 325 ships.
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