28 July 2018
British Yachts and Yachtsmen contains an appendix on leading yachtsmen’s of the day, presented here as a separate section. The order of the names in the […]
28 July 2018
The Castle Yacht Club is one of the senior clubs wholly associated with the Solent classes. There is one noticeable point about the clubs on the […]
28 July 2018
Owing to the rapid popularity gained by the Bembridge Sailing Club, it was decided to form a similar club at Seaview. A meeting of those interested […]
28 July 2018
In the year 1887 a good deal of sport was obtained in and near the harbour of Bembridge by a series of races in two exactly […]
28 July 2018
The Humber Yawl Club was established in 1883 at Hull. After the eastern branch of the Royal Canoe Club ceased to have an active existence the […]
28 July 2018
Hoylake,situated on the estuary of the Dee, derived its name from a deep-water channel which in the latter part of the seventeenth century ran through a […]
28 July 2018
The Orwell was very early in the century a home for yachting. The Orwell Club was flourishing there perhaps as far back as 1830, and the […]
28 July 2018
In and around Belfast Lough, whose yachtsmen are numbered amongst the keenest and best in the whole kingdom, there have been many flourishing sailing clubs. By […]
28 July 2018
This club was formed in 1882, its first Commodore being Mr. J. Clark, who then owned the yawl Condor, but built the celebrated Wendur in the […]
28 July 2018
This club was founded in 1881, at a time when yachting was in a particularly flourishing condition on the West Coast of Scotland. Oban, at which […]
28 July 2018
The average English yachtsman regards the Firth of Tay as a remote district for all practical purposes. The importance of a yachting centre has come to […]
28 July 2018
The Cruising Club, as it was then styled, was founded in December, 1880, with the object of associating owners of small yachts, boats, and canoes, and […]