Rafts & Machines

What he built. Rafts assembled from oil drums and scrap, the floating machines, the shed and the yard, and a lifetime of making seagoing craft nobody else would board.

Part of Fons Oerlemans

8 moments in this segment.

1. 1952-01-01 - The boy who built his first raft at fourteen. "De Avonturen Van Fons Oerlemans".
2. 1960-01-01 - Building his own aircraft and flying machines. "De Avonturen Van Fons Oerlemans".
3. 1974-06-01 - The raft "Last Generation" mid-Atlantic (3 of 2). The raft "Last Generation" out on the open Atlantic during Fons Oerlemans's 1974 crossing.
4. 1974-06-01 - The raft "Last Generation" mid-Atlantic (2 of 2). The raft "Last Generation" out on the open Atlantic during Fons Oerlemans's 1974 crossing.
5. 1974-06-01 - The raft "Last Generation" mid-Atlantic (1 of 2). The raft "Last Generation" out on the open Atlantic during Fons Oerlemans's 1974 crossing.
6. 1974-06-01 - The raft "Last Generation" mid-Atlantic (4 of 2). The raft "Last Generation" out on the open Atlantic during Fons Oerlemans's 1974 crossing.
7. 1989-06-01 - Boats and beer bottles - the improvised, self-built world of. (press archive).
8. 2007-06-01 - The model of the bottle. A scale model of the giant bottle Fons Oerlemans built to cross the Atlantic.