Marc Onrust wrote:
Going from Amsterdam to Rotterdam I would suggest cruising the river Vecht. It's
a very nice small river with many beautiful houses. Alternative route is the
"Amsterdam-Rijn kanaal" but I would recommend to stay clear from that as it is
used by freighters.

I'd second that. I've got a very spooky memory of cruising 'home' from
Rotterdam into Amsterdam on a 40' sailboat. The fog was so thick that we
could only guess where 'our' side of the canal was. Fortunately we had
radar, but is was very spooky to see a big ship coming up from behind on
the radar and watch the shadow when it passed us. The fog was thick
enough so we could never really 'see' the big pots, only sort of feel them.

Markus