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The Heineken Roeivierkamp ('H4K') is an international rowing tournament that is held annually on the Amstel in Amsterdam in the second or third weekend of March. In two days four races are rowed, a day a long one and a short distance.
Stadion Ergilio Hato (Dutch: Ergilio Hatostadion, also in Papiamento: Sentro Deportivo Korsou SDK) is a multi-purpose stadium in Willemstad, Curaçao. [1] It is also known as Sentro Deportivo Korsou (SDK) and is the island's largest stadium, with a capacity of 15,000 spectators.
She is currently mainly a pleasure cruise ship, but she also competes in various competitions. King's Legend competed in the Antigua Sailing Week, Sint Maarten Heineken Regatta, Voiles de Saint-Tropez and both Swan Cups, and will be competing in the Fastnet Race and various other races in the future.
Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water.Boat racing powered by oars is recorded as having occurred in ancient Egypt, [1] and it is likely that people have engaged in races involving boats and other water-borne craft for as long as such watercraft have existed.
Robert Janecki (born 27 June 1974) is a Polish yachtsman. [1]He is an Ocean Yacht Master, Motorboat Master, navigator, routier. [2] European champion class ILC 40 on the yacht MK Café with the crew led by Karol Jabłoński in 1998. [3]
Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.
Club Ghent and Sport Ghent and their relations were also the co – founders of the three-day international regatta from 1897, the Cluysen - Ter Donck Regatta on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal. For the first time the leading English rowing clubs were making the trip to the continent. In the United Kingdom it was known as the May - Regatta.
The Netherlands effectively separated from Spain in 1581 and the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was chartered in 1621. In 1633, the WIC lost its base in the Antilles when a Spanish fleet destroyed its settlement on Sint Maarten.