The Royal Netherlands Yacht Club (''Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeil- en Roeivereeniging'' in the
Dutch language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-Europea ...
) is a Dutch
yacht club
A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting.
Description
Yacht clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations. Yacht or sailing clubs have either a mari ...
and
rowing club based in
Muiden. It has two
marina
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships o ...
s: in Muiden and in
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
History
Enkhuizen, like Hoorn and Amsterdam, was one of the harbor-towns of the VOC, from where overseas trade wi ...
.
The organisation was founded in
1847
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
* January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.
* January 16 – John C. Frémont ...
and is the oldest - remaining -
water sports club in the Netherlands. The KNZ&RV was one of the clubs that were founding the
Royal Netherlands Watersport Association (1890) and the
Royal Dutch Rowing Federation
The Royal Dutch Rowing Federation (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Roeibond, a.k.a. KNRB) is the federation of all Dutch rowing clubs. It was founded in 1917.
The federation is a member of the NOC*NSF, and is entitled to nominate candidates and t ...
(1917).
The full, officially registered name of the organisation still retains the ''old spelling'' of the word “vereeniging” (Dutch for ''association'', now spelled as "vereniging", with single "e"'s) with two consecutive e’s.
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Yacht clubs in the Netherlands
Rowing clubs in the Netherlands
1847 establishments in the Netherlands
Organisations based in the Netherlands with royal patronage
Sport in Enkhuizen
Sports clubs in Gooise Meren
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