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A lovely lady with a fascinating past The Leão Holandês was built as a 2-Mast Schooner in the Northern Dutch town of Groningen in 1910 for a German skipper who used her as a freighter for wood. |
| The Amalie, as she was first christened, was taken to Germany and sawn in two parts at the Kiel wharf in 1923. The operation served to add 6 meters and one mast to her original 32 meters. Until 1975 the ship was sailed under Danish flag and was than sold to the first Dutch owner. He traced the complete history of the ship obtaining her original blueprint and started to remodel her exactly as she was more than a half century earlier. |
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The ship was then named Sepha Vollaars and sailed commercial trips from 1979-1983 in Holland. Sold in 1983, the ship sailed to Tahiti for the new Swiss owner, coming back to Europe 18 months later. By then, much or her beauty was gone. |
| When the present owners discovered the ship for sale in Belgium it meant an opportunity of a lifetime. They brought her to Portugal and named her Leão Holandês (Dutch Lion). Two years later, after a struggle to obtain the necessary licenses, the 3-master set sail again in 1988. |
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