Quality Improvements Plus a Side-Trip

We found our dream boat! It, of course, had a few places where improvements could be made. I guess we wanted perfection. We went out looking for those items that could take Otter from “great” to “spectacular”. We had little time left before we would be traveling to Spain so here is what we desired for Otter or what we saw looking for those improvements.

We drove to Haarlem which is about an hour and a half drive from where we were staying in Heeg, Netherlands.  Haarlem was really a side trip from our main destination. Having never been to Haarlem before and driving close by we thought we’d drop by.

Just an interesting looking building in Haarlem

A Sewing Machine Shop

Which was of particular interest to me. 

Windmill in Haarlem.  

About a ten minute’s drive away from Haarlem was our actual destination of Spaarndam, Netherlands. This small, marine town had a shop that interested us with a type of boat heater called Heatpol dieseloliekachel in English an Heatpol diesel oil heater. Ken wanted to check to see if it might meet our boat heater needs.

This is Ken checking out the shop across the street. Not being peak tourist season, 

the shop keepers kind of decided on there own store hours. This shop was not open. 

Here are the Heatpol heaters. They appear to be like a stand alone heater.

You would not have to running ducting to carry the heat to different areas of the boat. 

Ducting, etc. For boat heaters. 

I am in front of the shop we were in. 

Once after spending the day on Otter we decided to stop in Drachten at the GAMMA, a hardware store. We do not have a sink in the bathroom. We thought we should look for one to install. Being Europe there were lots of home grade very small sinks that would work. I hardest part would be deciding where to install the sink in the mini sized boat bathroom. 

You can likely see the sinks are a decent price (remember, in Euros). 

We were also trying to measure for fit.