British Yachts & Yachtsmen – the text

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Singularly few mentions of private yachts occur during this period. There is, indeed, the case of Jan Griffier, the artist; but Griffier, though long settled in […]

In Charles II.’s reign there were two main lines along which development was sought. The first of these consisted in the effort to devise ships that […]