The stem and starboard bow, showing details of the interior, ‘kassie’ (little cupboard); ‘koeij’ (bunk); ‘om tout e legge’ (for stowing rope). There are some dancing figures as decorations for a bulkhead, with notes ‘kas / bovende koij’ (cupboard above bunk); ‘dit toe / hier knmt de/ duer voor’ (? This closed, the door comes in front). The stern-sheets with a note ‘gesnede’ (cut).

On the back is a pencil sketch for the stern, similar to PAF6571, but with lion supporters to the arms instead of dolphins. It shows a flat bottom, referred to by the inscription ‘om op een plate boden / Te macke’ (to build with a flat bottom).

Inscribed ‘keer om dit’ (Turn this over).

This is a pencil drawing with pen and brown ink. It has been signed by the Younger ‘W.V.VJ’ in brown ink.

The sketch on the back is more crudely done than the other works and has been drawn with an inscribed circle as though with the help of a naval architect. There is part of a striped ensign showing. Other drawings on this type of paper are dated to 1665.

This is one of ten sketch plans of a small Dutch-type bezan yacht, which the Younger was designing for himself. They are identified by the coat of arms, as a similar arms surrounded by the initials ‘W.V.VJ’ was found in the form of a seal impressed on the stretcher of a painting in the Ingram Collection.

The date of the drawings is uncertain; the style might be as late as 1700 and the apparently English inscription ‘op sij dun’ (? upside down) on PAF6571 is on paper the Van de Veldes used in 1665, and the form of the signature is as early as this. PAF6570 and PAH1853, however, are on paper the Van de Veldes used in 1675. A drawing in the collection of D.G. van Beuningen at Vierhouten has an Italian watermark not usually found in England before 1680.

It is possible that Van de Velde planned originally to build a yacht while he was with the Dutch and he revived his scheme when he came to England. It is unlikely that she was ever built as designed because she cannot be recognised in any paintings and drawings. There is, however, a boeier yacht shown in a painting in the National Gallery (978) having the monogram ‘W V V’ in the pendant at the stern as in the drawing at Vierhouten.