Sometimes things just “happen” at the Boat Club and a great example was Monday night, September 14, 2009. While we were still recovering from the big Labor Day Weekend Four-Day Birthday Bash, the word went out via e-mail that nineteen fl at-bottom Dutch sailboats would arrive at NBC to spend the night at our dock. As Rear Commodore - Programs Kieran Quinn wrote to the membership: “These glorious, historic vessels were shipped across the Atlantic to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage of exploration on behalf of the Dutch East India Company which led to the settlement of New Amsterdam. The Full Story