(21 Aug 2025)
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Amsterdam – 20 August 2025
1. Various of boats and ships sailing
2. Wide of sailors climbing the rigging of a tall ship
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Janssen, Head of Communication, Sail 2025:
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"This is the first time in 10 years indeed because the last edition was canceled due to COVID, and we do realize that we have to connect with a whole new audience, a whole new generation who doesn’t have any idea what Sail is."
4. Wide of tall ships and boats
5. Wide of boats and crowd
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nanke Cui, local resident:
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“I’ve been here, I’ve lived here for 10 years actually, and I’ve never seen this parade before, and it’s greatly surprising to me that there has been all of this for the last years, and I have never seen it before."
7. Wide of tall ships and boats
8. Mid of boats
9. Various of tall ships and boats
10. Mid of people drinking and waving on boats
11. Wide of tall ships and boats
STORYLINE:
Crowds packed vantage points along a major canal on Wednesday to watch a flotilla of hundreds of historic ships sail into Amsterdam at the start of a five-day festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history.
Ships from all over the world, many with their masts and rigging decorated with flags, sailed from the North Sea coastal town of IJmuiden on an hours-long journey up the North Sea Canal and into Amsterdam’s IJ waterway for SAIL 2025, the first edition in a decade.
Hundreds of smaller boats with onlookers packed the waterways to sail alongside the visiting vessels.
The event, which draws hundreds of thousands of visitors, is held every five years.
The 2020 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local resident, Nanke Cui, told the Associated Press that she was attending the event for the first time.
“It’s greatly surprising to me that there has been all of this for the last years, and I have never seen it before,” she said
The Head of Communication for Sail, Chris Janssen acknowledged that, due to the cancellation, the event would have to resonate with a new generation.
"We do realize that we have to connect with a whole new audience, a whole new generation who doesn’t have any idea what Sail is." he said.
Wednesday’s parade culminates in an evening fireworks display.
The ships will remain in Amsterdam, many open for visitors, through the weekend.
The first event was first held in 1975 to celebrate Amsterdam’s 700th anniversary and this year’s edition coincides with the city’s 750th birthday.
AP video shot by Aleks Furtula and Ahmad Seir Nassiri
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