Completely solar clear days at coast a little-to forty in a year. During an osenne-winter season here it is uncomfortable. Poured by the lead, low hanging clouds, the grey boundless ice cold sea, a penetrating wind, sandy dunes, here and there porosshie a small bush yes rare trees. And when the sea shtormit, a picture becomes simply ominous. Notes that writes about the North Sea English of yacht changes K.A.Kohl in the book В"Under a sail to a stormВ": В"And here the storm has begun. On us has flown the first squall. Waves have disappeared behind a torrential rain wall... Force of a wind was stunning. There was a torrential rain, large drops left deep traces on water and smoothed crests of waves. Squall was accompanied by a thunder and a lightning... The Fallen crests drew in detail contours of black waves which went and went an ominous trainВ".

Weather in the Netherlands in general is unstable. Inhabitants of the country into this account have even such saying: В"If you do not like weather in Holland, wait for five minutesВ". Really, since morning there can be cloudy or be a rain, and in an hour the sun shines. And on the contrary. So without an umbrella on street to leave better not. But representation about Holland as to the country where it is eternal it is drizzling, incorrectly.

If the sea is quiet, and at coast, and almost at the horizon it is possible to see the sails filled with a wind. By a birth of the sailing which has become by present time popular enough, world it is obliged to Dutches. In the Netherlands sailing has appeared in the middle of XVII century. The management skill sails, having arisen by the trading, passenger and fighting ships, has quickly turned to an independent kind of sports meets. There were also numerous admirers of new sports in the different countries of the world. In 1661 to England the first sailing regatta has been spent, and in 1755 the first yacht club is based also. As sports courts Netherlanders at first used small sailing vessels of fleet - kilevye yachts. The Dutch word "yacht" - the oldest designation of a sports sailing vessel.

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