I am posting this notice for a fellow German cruiser, Adolf Mader, whom I met in Lutzelbourg, France in 2009 while cruising there that summer. He has the same build of boat I have, only bigger - a Zijlmans Eagle 13.5 meter (44 foot). He has emailed me and asked if I could help put out the word he is selling his boat and retiring from watersports. "Arosa" is 13.5m x 4.25m x 1.15m, Dutch steel made, and is a flush-deck modern-style motorkruiser. Adolf is German and keeps his boat at his yacht club on the Rhine River and cruises throughout Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. "Arosa" is certainly a luxurious and well equipped motorkruiser, complete with bow-thruster, generator, washer and dryer, Kabola hot water radiator heat, 3000 watt inverter, and more. and it certainly has been maintained to a very high degree. The underwater ship (hull) has been sandblasted in 2006 and the entire boat repainted. Actually looks even better than new. He is asking Euro 210,000 and "Arosa" can be seen at Yacht Club Lahr along the Rhine River. Aldof can be emailed at: ad.maeder@googlemail.com, and he can send you a PDF listing and photos of his boat. Aldof only speaks German, but he will translate your email with Babel Fish.or you can translate your language into German at the same website: http://babelfish.yahoo.com. Zijlmans is still making motorkruisers in Drimmenlen, Netherlands and their website can be found at: http://www.zijlmans.nl. We love our Zijlmans Eagle (13m) and in 3 years of cruising Europe haven't found a boat we would like better. The Eagle series of Zijlmans are not often on the market, so if you have wanted to cruise the rivers and canals of Europe, this may be the boat for you. Peter Satterlee "Mermaid Lil" Zijlmans Eagle 43