Skippers
People who grew up on the water
Four skippers who know the height of every bridge and the story behind every door.
Femke de Vries
Skipper, founder
Femke grew up on a house boat on the Prinsengracht and got her skipper's licence at eighteen. She started Slow Water with one boat and a thermos.
Skippers: De Reiger, an 1898 salon boat
Joost Bakker
Skipper
Joost knows the height of every bridge in the Jordaan to the centimetre, and which ones to duck under.
Skippers: The electric sloop Kwikstaart
Amira Haddad
Skipper, evening cruises
Amira skippers the evening cruises and tells the stories of the merchants' houses as their windows light up.
Skippers: The salon boat De Reiger
Sem Visser
Skipper
Sem was a cargo-barge skipper on the Rhine for twenty years before he came back to the canals he grew up on.
Skippers: The open boat Meeuw