Jonathan Griffin

28 July 2018

Chapter 13 – Steam Yachting

The romantic story of the steam-engine is well known, from the time of Watts’s kettle to Stephenson’s locomotive, and the struggles and triumphs have been handed […]
28 July 2018

The Early Years and the Fifes

It is now impossible to discover who was the first Scottish yachtsman, or what manner of craft he employed. To employ a popular paradox, there was […]
28 July 2018

Personalities and Clyde racing

Leaving for a moment the history of the Fifes of Fairlie, let us look at another type of the old Scottish yachtsmen whose patronage assured the […]
28 July 2018

Chapter 8 – The YRA Tonnage Rule

1882 During the year 1881 the Yacht Racing Association altered the measurement rule, which was held to be unsatisfactory as producing vessels of small beam. The […]