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About Christa Maria
We are the Christa Maria — a former cargo ship from 1961, once filled with fertilizer and grain on the waters heading to France, now awakened as a floating home. We, Robert and Christa, didn’t fall for a yacht or a houseboat, but for a small monument of iron and stories. A spits barge. Original. 39.5 meters. With history in every rivet.
Our adventure began in 2023, and honestly: it started at the same time as us as a couple. Our love and this ship ran in sync from day one. We didn’t even want to look at anything else. It had to be a classic cargo ship. Something with soul, weight, past. Something you don’t “own” but carefully steward.
The ship was then still called Land van Goesting. We’re not sailing it into anonymity, but back into life. On April 4, 2025, we officially gave her her new name: Christa Maria, her seventh life. No longer to carry cargo, but the future. No longer a workhorse, but a home.
Since then, we’ve been building her with the hands of Talsma and SRF and our minds into a high-end floating houseboat, fully self-sufficient, ready for both Amsterdam and the German and French canals. We chose not to shorten her. 39.5 meters stayed 39.5 meters. Because authenticity never happens by accident. Even the entire underside of the ship has been renewed. Where this ship once carried cargo, dreams, dinners, conversations that last deep into the night will soon lie.
The wheelhouse will soon get a wooden steering wheel as a wedding gift from dear friends Herman & Nicolette. The swimming pool seating on the aft deck is already there, and the wheeled planters are waiting to be rolled on deck as soon as we move in. The kitchen, dining room, and living room will soon flow into each other like one long sigh. Three bedrooms. A sailors’ space at the front. Everything with light. Everything with air. Everything with intention.
We found our permanent mooring faster than expected, perhaps in the most magical spot in Amsterdam: Borneokade 112. There we’ll wake up with the light breaking over the water, coffee in the wheelhouse, just as we’ve envisioned for years. In August 2024, we got the preliminary approval from the aesthetics committee – a moving moment. Not because it ‘was allowed’, but because it meant: this ship gets its right to exist back.
And now?
Now we’re in the middle of chapter two: the finishing. We’re working towards delivery in May 2026. The first years we’ll sail through the Netherlands — via the Carousel of historic floating houseboats, every few months in a different place: Haarlem, Alkmaar, Dordrecht, The Hague, Vlissingen. Later Germany. Later France. She has the CVO certificate — she can do it all.
We’re not done. We’ve started.
Follow our story. The Christa Maria moves. And soon, maybe you with her.
Nautical Heritage — Luxury Without Compromise
Step aboard and enter a world where elegance meets innovation. Every room, service, and feature is carefully curated to deliver the best Moving 5 star experience possible.
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