The flutes continued to hold their own alongside of the various types of vessels, but changes were made to adapt them better to the use for which they were intended, and so it was that the Noordvaerder or Walvischvaerder (whaling ship) and Oostvaerder (vessel of the Baltic Sea) made their appearance.
Small “Spiegelschepen”, having a lighter rig than the others, appeared elsewhere in the XVIIIth century under the name of Rinds (“Snauschepen”).
Two other types of large fishing vessels for the open sea were built, viz: the howker or hoy (“Hoeker”) and the bush (“Buys”) which will be found under the chapter of fishing vessels.
Still another ship comes to us from abroad as a merchantman: the Frigate, while the Tenders (“Boeiers” or “Kromstevens”) had been imitated already from models of the French navy.
These vessels appeared in the XVIIth century as the result of the traffic with the city of Rouen (WITSEN, p. 164, 2nd col.).
From combinations of these types of vessels among each other or with smaller types have arisen certain kinds of boats called by the following names: the “Boot”, which was nothing but a small flute having a “draai-over-boord” stern; the “Hekboot”, derived from the pinnace and the Galliot; the “Katschip” (cat-boat), from the tender and flute; and finally the “Stokker”, which had the bow of a “Spiegelship” with the stern of a howker.
Let it be remarked in passing that it is hard to separate clearly navigation over seas from navigation along shore, for even small kuffs (“koffen”) have been chartered for the Indies in many cases.
The distinction made here between navigation over seas and navigation along shore bears especially on the original destination of the vessels.
B) For navigation along shore.
The largest types of vessels for navigation along shore were represented by the galliot (“Galjoot”) and the galeas (“Galeas”); then by the kuff (“Kof”) and the smack (“Smak”).