"Bouler" wrote in
:


Thanks for the nice botters Jeroen, I had an uncle who was fishing
with a botter on the Zuiderzee before the afsluitdijk made that
impossible.

Thanx Bouler!! The anual botterrace in Den Helder seems to be quite
succesfull. I hope they will be able to organise the race in the future
aswell. As the start and finish, and some of the race, take place close to
the shore, the sea-dike offerse an excellent spectators platform!! (and
photgraphers platform).


I do wonder what the Zuiderzee would have been, if the Afsluitdijk hadn't
been built.. Most amazing are the harbours which used to be on the
seashore, but are now land-locked (Schokland, and closes to my home
Kolhorn, etc.) due to the polders that have been built...

Anyway, hope you'll be able to visit Den Helder this week.

Regards,

Jeroen