Sail Amsterdam 2005

Fleet-show from windjammers,cutty sharks, in the harbour of Amsterdam every 5 years.

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• ships
• tall-ships
• windjammers
• cutty-sharks
• boats
• vessels

[helmuthoorn]

Well, if the fuel prices get any higher they will build new ones.

[barthoedemaker]

New York, was actually New Amsterdam, Dutch heritage!

[jaycarmine]

@baritonebynight Likewise. But I haven't even mentioned the wars we have fought :].

[baritonebynight]

@jaycarmine That makes me so proud of my Dutch ancestry.

[marycory8788]

@helmuthoorn hopefully they build em but most the world is lazy and impatient.

[barthoedemaker]

@M42KX we traded nothing, the english stole it all.

[M42KX]

@barthoedemaker And we traded it for Suriname!?!?!

[Tomsouthrock]

great music

[Andreas19997]

@jaycarmine

I think you're right.

Well, I don't know a lot about it :)

[jaycarmine]

@Andreas19997 I disagree. The Dutch had their goal which was unlike the British. Sure, we wanted colonies. The only thing is we didn't fight for areas that were already colonized by people from another nation, while the British did. More and more areas in the Americas were taken over by the British, The entire French colonization there was swepped away. If we fought indeed for already posessed land then yes, Dutch might have been the language of the world. And we traded it for Surinam btw.

[barthoedemaker]

@Andreas19997 yup

[Andreas19997]

@barthoedemaker

But in that time New Amsterdam wasn't really that big.

So they sold it to the British.

A big mistake, otherwise Dutch could have been the language of the world now O___o