Jonathan Griffin

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Royal Anglesey Yacht Club was evolved from the old Beaumaris Club and News Room, which was founded as a social institution in 1802. The original […]

The ancient and historic town of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, has for many years enjoyed the privileges of having its own yacht club, for it was […]