AMSTERDAM, DUYFKEN replica & GOVERNOR HUNTER Sydney Harbour, off Chowder Bay. 21 February 2011.
Band members being unloaded.

AMSTERDAM : IMO number : 9188037
Gross tonnage : 62735 ..... DWT : 7327
Type of ship : Passenger (Cruise) Ship (during 2000)
Year of build : 2000 .... Flag : Netherlands

DUYFKEN REPLICA : Length Keel 16.8m ..... Length between Stem and Sternpost 19.94m
Length Beakhead to Taffrail 25.2m ..... Maximum beam 6.01m
Height of Stern above waterline 5.5m ..... Draft, deep laden 2.45m
Depth in hold 2.3m ..... Estimated displacement, deep laden 110 tonnes
Sail area 2902m (31002ft) ..... Rig Three masted, square fore and main, lateen mizzen
Planking below waterline 60mm ..... Planking above waterline 40-50mm
Framing timbers 200 x 200mm, 400mm "room and space".
In 1606 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) sent the little ship Duyfken, captained by Willem Janszoon, to search for "south and east lands" beyond the furthest reaches of their known world. Leaving from Banda (Indonesia), Duyfken reached the Cape York Peninsula and charted 300km of the coast. This is the first historically recorded voyage to Australia. For the first time, all the inhabited continents of the world were discovered to the European science of geography.
For close up at Australian National Maritime Museum see http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1382643

GOVERNOR HUNTER : One of Sydney Port's Pilot vessels