Sail Amsterdam 2015

I first thought to call this PBB 5, following on 1, 2, 3, and 4 from last year, taken from a harbor area in “north” Amsterdam called “place beyond belief.”.  But sometimes straightforward is clearest.

Check out Half Moon, gone over the Ocean and now leading a parade  . . . hanging with the likes of Grace Kelly.

Gotta sing.  Remember the armada that traveled up the north River six years ago?  They traveled with their own song leader, Reinier Sijpkens, who got them going at night.

Big in the middle ground, it’s Kruzenshtern.

And in this batch of photos sent along by Fred Trooster and taken by Fons Tuijl, I can see converted trawler  Pedro Doncker,  Polish training vessel Dar Mlodziezy, 

retired Dutch research vessel Castor,

pilot boat Polaris,

the nearest one here frigate Shtandart,

Indian training ship Tarangini,

Colombian training ship ARC Gloria–who wow’ed in the sixth boro here a few years ago,

Portuguese training vessel Sagres–recently in Greenport NY– and repurposed minesweeper Naaldwijk PW-809.

Of course . . . so much more, but I wasn’t there yesterday.

Again, many thanks to Fred and Fons for these photos.

For more shots, see gCaptain here.