Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics Seine near Meulan. For the larger yachts an Olympic regatta was held at Le Havre. During the Olympic regattas of the Exposition Universelle of 1900 there were more than 100 yachts racing from Paris, Rouen, Cannes, Nantes and Arcachon and yachts from England, Germany, the United States and Holland. The Bassin Olympique was the river Seine near the that served as the Olympic harbor. The race conditions at Meulan during the Olympic regatta were not ideal. A light breeze could hardly make the sailing interesting. Since the river Seine mainly runs from east to west, the light north-easterly breeze was
Bushman's River Mouth Bushman's River Mouth Bushman's River Mouth (Afrikaans "Boesmansriviermond") is a town in Ndlambe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The village is 25 km from Port Alfred, on the west bank of the Bushman's River, just across the river from Kenton-on-Sea. A well-known holiday resort, it is the site of many shipwrecks, the best-known of them being the "Volo", a Norwegian barque wrecked near the river mouth in 1896. It was established in 1897 by farmers from nearby towns (Paterson, Cookhouse, Somerset East and Cradock) when they were granted permission to camp along the banks of