293 | Back to the Past! A city that represents how the Dutch lived - SAWLORS
22 December 2025 · 15 min · 3K views · Enkhuizen
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The family crew of Celadon departs a boatyard in Aishti after a two-month refit and sails south through the IJsselmeer, stopping at several historic Dutch towns.0:01 The first stop, Stavoren, costs €35 per night with electricity; the marina uses a floating pontoon system that keeps boats level with the dock, eliminating ladder climbs.2:47 Stavoren is one of eleven Frisian cities and a former Hanseatic League grain and timber port, now a quiet historic town.3:43 The crew then crosses the IJsselmeer — formed when the Zuiderzee was closed by a dike completed in 1932 — to Enkhuizen, where marina fees run €55 per night.5:19 The main attraction there is an open-air museum, an outdoor replica of the pre-flood town showing a fish market, net-making workshops, a shrimp fisherman's cottage, a sail loft, and costumed interpreters; Domenico makes a wooden shoe with a small boat carved into it.7:29 The crew also transits a busy lock carrying cargo barges.12:27 The final stop in this leg is Volendam, a crowded tourist fishing town where a berth was secured only because the summer season was ending.13:26
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