Living afloat

The story of the Luxe Motor MS Watergeus and how to convert a Dutch barge into a houseboat

Barges & their deck equipment

Any barge has deck equipment. They make every day's use easier or they are needed for safe sailing. Examples of deck equipment are anchor winches, car cranes, cranes for lifeboats, masts, etc...

• Anchor winches
• Car cranes
• Other cranes
• Masts

Anchor winches

Original anchor winch on a Baquet de Charleroi

Manual single anchor winch on the Clochard

Anchor winch on a Boeieraak

electric anchor winch with a broken electro motor

Heavier anchor winch on a kempenaar

Anchor winch covered in a metal box

Car cranes

Rusty car crane on a spits

Car crane and smaller crane on back accommodation of a Kempenaar

Me working with the car crane of the Mousson

Other cranes

Crane aboard my barge. Can lift up to 250kgs in its current configuration.

Crane on the back accommodation, mostly used for a small boat. Typical position on barges

Manual crane for a small boat on an aak

Masts

The masts had original the function of loading and unloading cargo from the boat. Depending on what ype of they boat it was also often the main propulsion system, a mast for sailing.

Mast on a steilsteven in Rotterdam

Mast of a sleeptankschip