A transcription of the 1906 book British Yachts and Yachtsmen, a frankly patrician history of yachting from the C17 up to the C20.
28 July 2018
The Canada Cup, August 8, 1903 – First Race The races took place off Toronto, commencing August 8, 1903. The series was to be the best three […]
28 July 2018
In the autumn of 1904 the Royal Canadian Yacht Club again challenged the American holders of the cup, but this time the 30-foot water-line restricted class […]
28 July 2018
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 history of yachting in Scotland is covered in a large chapter. We have therefore divided it into three parts which roughly correspond to themes: The […]
28 July 2018
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
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
The cutter Fiona was launched in the early summer of 1865, from the Fairlie Yard of William Fife. With her dawned the nationalization of the sport. Hitherto Clyde […]
28 July 2018
1901 The death of Her Majesty Queen Victoria early in the year cast a deep gloom over every branch of sport, and by none was it […]
28 July 2018
1896 By degrees the measurement of water-line length and sail area alone had evolved a very undesirable type of yacht, and the Yacht Racing Association therefore […]