Steel Sailboats

Saturday afternoon I got an invitation for a sail on SV Prinses Mia.  Her captain Martijn Dijkstra  is a fine fellow stopping in Oriental for a few weeks after sailing over from Las Palmas Spain.
His boat, is a hefty 25 ton steel sloop with a pilot house.  It was built in 1980 in Holland.
Prinses Mia feels like a ship.  Here are the particulars...
LOA 50 feet
Beam 17 feet
Draft 7 feet
Auxiliary is a 70hp Mitsubishi diesel
He swapped this engine out and replaced it with a 300 D Mercedes car diesel in 2019 here in Oriental.

Martijn fabricated this effective windlass.

The good captain.