28 July 2018
1852 The America still figures largely in the racing annals of the time, though her owner was Lord de Blaquière, and on occasions she was handsomely beaten. The […]
28 July 2018
1862 The death of H.R.H. the Prince Consort on December 15, 1861, cast a gloom over the yachting season of 1862. Many annual fixtures were either […]
28 July 2018
1870 This year saw the first attempt to win back the America Cup. After endless negotiations, which have frequently been the prelude to these matches, Mr. […]
27 July 2018
To the initiative of the Earl of Wilton as Commodore of the Squadron was due the first international yacht race, in which the historic America captured the trophy […]
27 July 2018
With the dawn of a period of peace fruitful efforts were made to organize yachting as a sport. The Water Club at Cork existed only for […]
27 July 2018
We have now reached the eighteenth century, and, before giving some notes on the development of rigs which took place, it may be thought advisable to […]
27 July 2018
The earliest and most interesting of these was the Cork Water Club of 1720, but its quaint pageantry need not detain us here, as it will […]
27 July 2018
It is not easy at first sight to assign limits to the Restoration period of yachting, but it may perhaps be thought allowable to draw the […]
27 July 2018
Chapter 3 tracks the development of yachting as the direct influence of the Dutch faded following the Restoration. It continued to be a time of war […]
27 July 2018
The conclusion to which we are driven is that these yacht-like craft which escorted Charles to England were English in fact as in appearance. Naval history […]
27 July 2018
The question of the cost of these yachts is far from being unimportant, especially if we are right in supposing that the extravagance of the pastime […]
27 July 2018
It may be allowable at this point to digress for a while in order to consider the Jemmy yacht, which was the second of the Bezans. She was smaller […]
28 July 2018
1852 The America still figures largely in the racing annals of the time, though her owner was Lord de Blaquière, and on occasions she was handsomely beaten. The […]
28 July 2018
1862 The death of H.R.H. the Prince Consort on December 15, 1861, cast a gloom over the yachting season of 1862. Many annual fixtures were either […]
28 July 2018
1870 This year saw the first attempt to win back the America Cup. After endless negotiations, which have frequently been the prelude to these matches, Mr. […]
27 July 2018
To the initiative of the Earl of Wilton as Commodore of the Squadron was due the first international yacht race, in which the historic America captured the trophy […]
27 July 2018
With the dawn of a period of peace fruitful efforts were made to organize yachting as a sport. The Water Club at Cork existed only for […]
27 July 2018
We have now reached the eighteenth century, and, before giving some notes on the development of rigs which took place, it may be thought advisable to […]
27 July 2018
The earliest and most interesting of these was the Cork Water Club of 1720, but its quaint pageantry need not detain us here, as it will […]
27 July 2018
It is not easy at first sight to assign limits to the Restoration period of yachting, but it may perhaps be thought allowable to draw the […]
27 July 2018
Chapter 3 tracks the development of yachting as the direct influence of the Dutch faded following the Restoration. It continued to be a time of war […]
27 July 2018
The conclusion to which we are driven is that these yacht-like craft which escorted Charles to England were English in fact as in appearance. Naval history […]
27 July 2018
The question of the cost of these yachts is far from being unimportant, especially if we are right in supposing that the extravagance of the pastime […]
27 July 2018
It may be allowable at this point to digress for a while in order to consider the Jemmy yacht, which was the second of the Bezans. She was smaller […]