For this week's #MeerMittwoch, we have the Europa (a Dutch three-mast rigged sailing vessel) ploughing through the Solent as part of the Trafalgar 200 commemorations in 2005.
It provides an insight into how this stretch of water would have appeared in the Age of Sail.
On a modern yacht in the middle of the ocean with a broken rudder, send out a call for help, then out of the misty past THIS, the Götheborg out of Sweden, comes to rescues you ... Wow!
[The arrival of the Götheborg on the scene was rapid and surprising, as we did not expect to see a merchant ship from the East India Company of the XVIII century. This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?]