British Yachts and Yachtsmen – the Yacht Clubs

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]