A beautiful 18.9m Skûtsje Tjalk, Mooi Maisga was built in IJlst (Friesland, Netherlands) in 1898, where she spent much of her working life as a cargo vessel, transporting goods on the Dutch canals under the power of her sailing rig. Over the course of her life she has fulfilled various roles: from racing and carrying cargo, to her present form as a home, and has travelled extensively in the Netherlands and England, as well as further afield: most notably in 1986, when she took part in a regatta celebrating the centenary of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Still rigged for sailing, s... read more