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 […]
27 July 2018
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 […]
27 July 2018
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 […]
27 July 2018
It has often been said that yachting history begins with the Restoration of Charles II., and it is indeed certain that the date of the home-corning […]
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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 […]
27 July 2018
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 […]
27 July 2018
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 […]
27 July 2018
It has often been said that yachting history begins with the Restoration of Charles II., and it is indeed certain that the date of the home-corning […]