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Holland - Sail Amsterdam 2010 - August 19-23, 2010
Photo made on August 23, 2010 in the IJmuiden fishermen's port
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Three tall ships together: I made a shortcut to go home on my bike to Haarlem... To my surprise I found three tall ships in the harbour and one smaller ship from Switzerland with the beautiful name Fleur de Passion (Passion Flower)...

The Stavros S Niarchos (London) - not visible on this picture;
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavros_S_Niarchos_%28ship%29

The Dewaruci (Indonesia) at the right, which could be visited!!!!;
* Length: 58,27 m
* Width: 9,5 m
* Year built: 1953
For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRI_Dewaruci

The Oosterschelde (The Netherlands) at the far left;
Length: 50 m
Width: 7,5 m
Year built: 1918
Fore more info:
http://www.oosterschelde.nl/welkom-op-de-website-van-driemastschoener-Oosterschelde.html

The Fleur de Passion next to the Oosterschelde.
Year built: 1942
Length: 33 m
Fore more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinea_Foundation



For those of you who like Sail Amsterdam pictures: also have a look at my pictures of Sail Amsterdam 2005:
http://www.fotothing.com/annaschnitfink/photo/14/
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Aug 24 2010 19:35 GMT hans55 PRO
i like every one of them !!
Aug 24 2010 19:37 GMT annaschnitfink
Me too dear Hans. Look later at the editing under the picture: I am still working on it!
Thanks for your quick reaction my dear friend!
Aug 24 2010 19:40 GMT hans55 PRO
they where waiting for you to take pictures from !!!
did you know that from the sand out of the fishermens port ...fort Uithoorn was build ?? :-)... just some info !! :-))
Aug 24 2010 19:44 GMT annaschnitfink
No dear Hans, of course I did not know that. And just imagine I lived for almost eight years almost IN the fishermen's port... Thanks for the info! :)
Aug 24 2010 20:00 GMT Annamaria
Great shots!!
Aug 24 2010 20:03 GMT annaschnitfink
Thank you dear Annamaria for your comment!
Aug 24 2010 20:38 GMT gafaway
lots of details... all that rigging... wow
and great info too !
Aug 24 2010 21:12 GMT annaschnitfink
Thank you dear Gafaway for your kind reaction!

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