Fortunately, The Netherlands – the home of Dutch barges – was more receptive. Of course, we still had to prove that Aleau was based in The Netherlands. Once we did that, we were put on the Kadaster and became a real “Dutch barge.”
In the photo below, an employee of the Kadaster is chiseling our registration number into the hull. While it may appear he used a stencil – he did not. He used a chisel with a fine point and, dot-by-dot, made the numbers you see. I could not write that neatly with a pen and paper – let alone using a hammer and chisel into hard steel.
