Vendéeglobe: the Formula 1 of the sea

[Polarengineer]

Probably not, but thanks to that invasion (actually 1667). I was born Dutch. Although I still had to take my inburgerings exam before they would give me a passport. The Dutch were so disgusted with the English lands that they had captured and the absolute poverty (not much different today) that they buggered off in a hurry to celebrate their victory and forgot to hand it all back to the english. 300 years later in 1967 I attended the celebrations in Queenborough of the official handing back of the territories to the mayor, by the mayor of their twinned town of Breille. It had been discovered in the archives that there were documents confirming the Dutch still owned the territory. It was an occasion of lots of cheese and clogs. I was therefore born on what was still Dutch territory.

[exile]

Amazing info. Thanks. I spent most of my formative years near Queenborough* and when travelling to the Netherlands often overnighted in a hotel in Den Breill.

* and never knew the Dutch connection - just the attack on the King's dockyard in Chatham.

PS: sorry a lot off track from modern yacht racing.

[Biloute]

Sam Davies arrives in Les Sables d'Olonne : congrats !

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