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Sailboat Swarm in Netherlands

 

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This is kind of crazy. A timelapse of boats swarming into Amsterdam for a sail festival.

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Billed as the largest free nautical event in the world, Sail Amsterdam is aquinquennial (every five years) gathering of 600+ boats and tall ships that sail in a circuit in the Netherland’s North Sea Canal before mooring in Amsterdam. The 2015 event was held just last week and according to the NL Times a record-breaking 2.7 million people arrived to watch the maritime spectable that included at least 50 tall ships and hundreds of smaller watercraft. This aerial photo and a timelapse filmed by Boyd Baptist really captures the enormity of the event. (via Jeroen Apers)

 

 

 

 

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Circling Gwynn’s Island ~ Video

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Sailing around Gwynn’s Island in the Chesapeake Bay on a Drascombe Lugger, Annie. With Steve Earley and Curt Bowman.

 

 

 

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Manokin River Evening ~ Video

evening on Wolftrap Creek, Manokin River 

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Afternoon into evening. Sailing up narrow creeks and back out into broad bays. Beautiful sailing in a fresh breeze.

Rafted up for the evening, then anchoring out for the night.

The next morning all head back to Janes Island to haul out and head home.

 

 

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Manokin River Afternoon ~ Video

Up the Manokin River

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Spirited run up the Manokin River from Teague Creek. A downwind run in 12-15 knots.

All afternoon the Coast Guard broadcasted alerts of a vessel in distress.

 

 

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Manokin River Morning ~ Video

 

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Sailing from Janes Island up the Manokin River. The video above is from the first part of the day.

 

 

 

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Manokin River ~ Janes Island to Teague Creek

Doug in his Cornish Shrimper Tidings 

 

Forecasts call for clearing skies and tempering wind overnight. But back at camp the rain has not yet dissipated. In the evening, in the Executive Conference Room, there is some disagreement regarding the direction the company should take in the morning. The destination is not disputed  – the Manokin River – just how best to get there. Wind will be out of the North, dead on the nose.

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