Ark of Noah - Dordrecht, Netherlands
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N 51° 49.144 E 004° 41.112
31U E 616151 N 5742257
In Dordrecht you can find this replica of the oldest and largest wooden ship in the world.
Waymark Code: WMHF31
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 07/03/2013
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The Ark was built by Johan Huibers, a contractor from a small village in the Netherlands. In 1992, he dreamt that the waves of the ocean washed over the Netherlands during a great storm.
In 1992 plans to rebuild the Ark began. After researching the Bible, several other books about the Ark and DVDs and after a long time of saving money, Johan was finally ready to start in 2005. This is when the first trees came to the harbouw of Schagen. The constructing could begin. The Ark would be a smaller replica that could sail through the Netherlands. This smaller replica was 9 meters wide, 13 meters high, and 70 meters long. After one year of construction on his own, Johan started working with a few volunteers on Saturdays and his son helped every now and then to ready the Ark. Noah’s Ark opened its doors to the public in 2007. The first visitors set foot on board the on April the 30th in 2007. In the 3,5 years that followed, the small Ark berthed at various places in the Netherlands, including: Rotterdam, Zaandam, Arnhem, Drachten, Oudeschild on the island of Texel, Vianen, Harderwijk, Vlissingen etc. The Ark sailed a total of 3.5 years, visited 21 mooring places throughout the Netherlands and welcomed 600,000 visitors on board.
After 3,5 years, the small Ark transferred to another organization that would carry on with the same vision. Now the Ark team was free to focus entirely on the new project, namely the full-sized Ark. Because this was Johan Huibers’ original dream, he started working on the Ark straight away in 2009! Johan worked with a team of builders to recreate Noah’s Ark as accurately as possible. The life-sized ship opened its doors to the public in July 2012.
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