Top 20 Photos of 2013 -- #3

This is the final stretch of the Kuantan Blog's Top 20 Challenge. I give you #3:

July 2013, Amsterdam

Close-up of ship ropes on the Amsterdam--or, rather, the replica of the Amsterdam,

a 18th-century commercial ship of the Dutch East India Trading Company

(which, not very auspiciously, sank on its maiden voyage to Batavia).