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{{Short description|Maritime event in Amsterdam, Netherlands}}
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[[File:Sail amsterdam 05 crowds.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|SAIL Amsterdam in 2005]]

'''SAIL Amsterdam''' is a [[sea|maritime]] event held once every five years in [[Amsterdam]] in the [[Netherlands]]. [[Tall ship]]s from all over the world visit the city to moor in its eastern harbour.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sail.nl/en-2015|title=SAIL Amsterdam 2015 – Official website|website=sail.nl|access-date=12 July 2015|archive-date=10 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910142136/https://www.sail.nl/en-2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The 2020 event was cancelled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].

==History==
[[File:Amsterdam Sail 2010 0819 Stad Amsterdam 02.jpg|thumb|upright|The ''[[Stad Amsterdam]]'', the flagship of SAIL Amsterdam 2010]]
The event was organised in 1975 to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Amsterdam, under the name 'Sail Amsterdam 700'.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Volkszeitun-Tribune | location=Omaha, Nebraska |date=29 August 1975 | page=7 | title=Rendezvous der Windjammer | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110991375/sail-amsterdam-1975/}}</ref> This led to the establishment of the ''Stichting Sail Amsterdam'' (SSA, ''Foundation Sail Amsterdam'').

===1975 ===
More than 850 ships from 21 countries participated in the inaugural SAIL Amsterdam.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Times Leader | location=Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | date=30 November 1985 | page=46 | title=Travel briefs | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110992749/sail-amsterdam-tall-ship-tales/}}</ref> The [[Dutch barge|tjalk]] ''Stockpaerdt'' participated in the event on inception.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

=== 1980  ===
SAIL Amsterdam 1980 had approximately 1,000 sailing ships from multiple countries.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Daily News | location=New York, New York | date=16 March 1980 | page=165 | title=Sail Amsterdam 1980 goes international | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110990361/sail-amsterdam-1980/}}</ref> Participants included the Soviet Union's ''[[Kruzenshtern (ship)|Kruzenshtern]]'', Poland's ''[[Dar Pomorza]]'', ''[[Sea Cloud]]'' from the Bahamas, Germany's ''[[Gorch Fock (1933)|Gorch Fock]]'', and the ''[[Sir Winston Churchill (schooner)|Sir Winston Churchill]]''.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Calgary Herald | date=15 March 1980 | page=162 | title=Tall ships will converge on Holland in August | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110993103/sail-amsterdam-1980-ships/}}</ref>

=== 1985 ===
The Netherlands commemorated SAIL Amsterdam 1985 with an issue of three stamps.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Palm Beach Post | date=7 July 1985 | page=113 | title=On Stamps | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110993595/sail-amsterdam-1985-stamps/}}</ref>

=== 1990 ===
SAIL Amsterdam 1990 opened on 9 August. During the 1990 event, a limited number of visitors were permitted to stay onboard some of the sailing vessels.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Province | location=Vancouver, British Columbia | date=8 April 1990 | page=181 | title=1,000 ships to sail in | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110993940/sail-amsterdam-1990-vancouver/}}</ref>

=== 1995 ===
SAIL Amsterdam 1995 took place from 10 to 14 August.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Star-Phoenix | location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | date=15 July 1995 | page=10 | title=Monet exhibition will draw thongs to Chicago | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110994190/sail-amsterdam-1995-dates/}}</ref> As many as 3 million attendees were expected.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Miami Herald | date=11 August 1995 | page=254 | title=De Telegraaf | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110994270/sail-amsterdam-1995-attendees/}}</ref>

=== 2000 ===
The ''[[Stad Amsterdam]]'', a 250-foot, three-masted clipper ship, was christened during SAIL Amsterdam 2000.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=The Boston Globe | date=21 April 2011 | page=B4 | title=Ahoy, There | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110994737/sail-amsterdam-2000-christened/}}</ref>

===2005 ===
[[File:AmerigoVespucci.JPG|thumb|The [[Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci|''Amerigo Vespucci'']] during Sail 2005]]
[[File:Sailin2005.JPG|thumb|Chaos on the water during the Sail-in of 2005]]
SAIL Amsterdam 2005 was held from 17 to 22 August, the 7th occurrence of the festival. The event was expected to attract 2 to 3 million visitors. The official number of tall ships which participated was 21 but in total over 50 ships with at least 3 masts were present.  There were also several [[ship replica]]s, hundreds of classical sail- and steamships and some modern marine ships. For the first time several modern yachts and a submarine were present.

The tall ships were moored in the [[IJhaven]] (IJ harbour) and in Amsterdam North (across [[IJ (Amsterdam)|'t IJ]]) and the Varend Erfgoed boats were moored in the [[Oosterdok]] nearby, where one can also find the [[Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum]] (a [[maritime museum]]) with its replica of a [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) ship, which is permanently moored there.
[[Image:SAIL Amsterdam 2005 backlit quay.jpg|thumb|upright|Early morning overview of [[tall ships]]]]

The main ships, in the order of the official walking-route were (with length and nation of origin):
*''[[STS Sedov]]'' (117m, {{flag|Russia}}) (arrived later, on Friday)
*''[[SV Tenacious|Tenacious]]'' (65 m, {{flag|Great Britain}})
*''[[Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci|Amerigo Vespucci]]'' (104 m, {{flag|Italy}})
*''[[STS Mir|Mir]]'' (109 m, {{flag|Russia}})
*''[[Kruzenshtern (ship)|Kruzenshtern]]'' (114 m, {{flag|Russia}})
*''[[Prins Willem]]'' (the {{flag|Netherlands}}) (a replica)
*''[[Stad Amsterdam]]'' (76 m, the {{flag|Netherlands}}) (the [[Flagship]])
*''[[Sørlandet (ship)|Sørlandet]]'' (64 m, {{flag|Norway}})
*''[[Europa (barque)|Europa]]'' (55 m, the {{flag|Netherlands}})
*''[[Oosterschelde (ship)|Oosterschelde]]'' (50 m, the {{flag|Netherlands}})
*''[[Eendracht (1989 ship)|Eendracht]]'' (59 m, the {{flag|Netherlands}})
*''[[NRP Sagres (1937)|Sagres]]'' (89 m, {{flag|Portugal}})
*''[[Swan fan Makkum]]'' (62m, {{flag|Netherlands}})
*''[[Alexander von Humboldt (ship)|Alexander von Humboldt]]'' (63 m, {{flag|Germany}})
*''[[Khersones (ship)|Khersones]]'' (110 m, {{flag|Ukraine}})
*''[[Pogoria (ship)|Pogoria]]'' (49 m, {{flag|Poland}})
*''[[RNOV Shabab Oman (1977)|Shabab Oman]]'' (52m, {{flag|Oman}})
*''[[Dar Młodzieży]]'' (110 m, {{flag|Poland}})
*''{{ill|Kamper Kogge|nl|Kamper kogge (schip, 1998)}}'' ({{flag|Netherlands}}) (a replica of the [[kogge]], a popular type of ship in the Netherlands in the Middle Ages)
*''[[Statsraad Lehmkuhl]]'' (98 m, {{flag|Norway}})
*''[[Mircea (ship)|Mircea]]'' (81 m, {{flag|Romania}})
*''[[KRI Dewaruci|Dewaruci]]'' (63 m, {{flag|Indonesia}})
*''[[INS Tarangini (A75)|Tarangini]]'' (54 m, {{flag|India}})
*''[[Kaliakra (ship)|Kaliakra]]'' (52m, {{flag|Bulgaria}})

[[File:pieremachochel version of Prins Willem.jpg|thumb|A so-called 'Pieremachochel', the [[Prins Willem (ship replica)|''Prins Willem'']]]]

Smaller events included an exposition of yacht building and a parade of carnavalesque floating creations.

The event cost around €7.5 million to stage which was financed by sponsorship and trading activity.

On the first day, the ships gather in the [[Lock (water transport)|locks]] at [[IJmuiden]] for the ''Sail In'' or ''Parade of Sail'' through the [[North Sea Canal]] to Amsterdam, led by the event's flagship. In 2005 that was the ''Stad Amsterdam'', which was supposed to reach Amsterdam first, but she ran aground with the Dutch crown prince [[Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange|Willem Alexander]] aboard and the ''Statsraad Lehmkuhl'' then preceded her.

===2010 ===
[[File:View02AmsterdamSail2010.JPG|thumb|upright|Welcome to Sail Amsterdam]]
SAIL Amsterdam 2010 was held from 19 August until 23 August that year.

===2015 ===
SAIL Amsterdam 2015 was held from 19 to 23 August 2015.
*[[List of sailing ships participating in Sail Amsterdam 2015]]

===2020 ===

SAIL Amsterdam was scheduled to be he held from 12 to 16 August 2020, but was cancelled after the Dutch government banned organized events until 1 September 2020 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The organization decided it was unrealistic to postpone the event, as it was impossible to say if such a mass event could be organised safely in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sail.nl/en/general/sail-amsterdam-2020-cancelled/|title=SAIL Amsterdam 2020 – Official website|website=sail.nl}}</ref>

===2025 ===

SAIL Amsterdam 2025 will be the tenth occurrence of SAIL Amsterdam, and the first one since 2015 as the 2020 event was cancelled. It will be one of the main events in celebrations to mark 750 years of the city of Amsterdam. It will also be 50 years since the first occurrence of SAIL Amsterdam was held.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sail.nl/en/general/sail-amsterdam-2020-cancelled/|title=SAIL Amsterdam 2020 – Official website|website=sail.nl}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of large sailing vessels]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{in lang|nl}} {{official website|https://www.sail.nl/ }}

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