View from the Ijsselmeer; a flotilla cruise, with an international cast of characters, through the reclaimed waters of Holland's inland sea, is a true Dutch treat.

Yachting | July 1, 1984| | Copyright

Seeing the Netherlands by boat seems only natural--after all, much of the country was taken from the sea. In A.D. 200, the Romans called the area an "uninhabitable bog," but the Dutch never believed it. Through an ingenious series of dikes, canals, windmills, and pumping stations, terra firma has been created from swamp, even in areas under sea level.

The IJsselmeer (pronounced ice-elmir) is part of Holland's largest land reclamation project. In 1932 the outer dike was completed, cutting off the Zuyderzee (an unpredictable inland sea) from the North Sea, and the ...

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