Haffboot

A Haffboot (plural: Haffboote) is the collective term for a type of sailing boat that is used as a fishing or cargo boat on the shallow Baltic Sea coast, in the Bay of Greifswald, the Stettin Lagoon and their neighbouring waterbodies until the 20th century.

Using similar or identical designs for the ship's hull and its cargo hold, the fishing boats were built with wet or dry cargo holds.

Around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, haffboote were active on the Neuwarper See and in the lower Oder delta.

It was 22 metres long, wide beamed and had a shallow draught.

[1] They went out regularly to the fishing zeeskähne and tuckerkähne in order to bring in the catch and take it to the markets.