Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . conveniencies as must have resulted fromthe climatic conditions under which boat-sailing was and is practised during theshort and uncertain season of an English summer. Towards the close of his reignthese regattas, inaugurated with the Re-storation, which furnish the first record ofEnglish yachting, were discontinued alto-gether. The pastime, as now indulged in,is an institution of comparatively recentdate. The first club was formed in 1720,at Queenstown, Ireland, under the title ofthe Cork Harbour Water Club, which isnow know
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . conveniencies as must have resulted fromthe climatic conditions under which boat-sailing was and is practised during theshort and uncertain season of an English summer. Towards the close of his reignthese regattas, inaugurated with the Re-storation, which furnish the first record ofEnglish yachting, were discontinued alto-gether. The pastime, as now indulged in,is an institution of comparatively recentdate. The first club was formed in 1720,at Queenstown, Ireland, under the title ofthe Cork Harbour Water Club, which isnow known as the Royal Cork Yacht was not till 1812 that the sister islandfollowed the example through some fortygentlemen establishing a similar associa-tion at the Isle of Wight, known as TheYacht Club, which continued steadily toincrease in membership and importanceuntil 1820, when it attracted the attentionof William IV., then Duke of Clarence,who ordered that it should henceforth bestyled The Royal Yacht Club, and afew years after his accession to the throne. B6 * GALATEA
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