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HarryM

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7. I do know some Dutch...

Reply to PJMcK (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 15, 2025, 05:22 PM

Feb 2025

...And Helle means Hell in Old Dutch. I just asked my wife who is from Wageningen. Half way between Utrecht and Arnhem.
The thing that really struck me about Hell's Gate was the eddys there. Our little boat had no motor. We had to time our trip so that when we got to South Street Seaport, that we arrived at slack tide, or we would have never gotten there. We made it by sailing the boat backwards for a while, which I thought was insane, but it was the right call.

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