Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . e Southern, its boats werefor the most part open centerboards ofsmall size. It may have hadan occasional race on theShrewsbury River, but itwas simply a summer organi-zation, and, except in name,had none of the character-istics of a regular yachtingorganization. The Carolinaclub, with head-quarters atWilmington (if I am notmistaken). North Carolina,ranks fourth in pointof age, but was ofno importance ex-cept, perhaps,locally. It wasorganized in 1854, but it was not until the Brooklyn Yacht Clubwas organized in 1857, that there

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Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . e Southern, its boats werefor the most part open centerboards ofsmall size. It may have hadan occasional race on theShrewsbury River, but itwas simply a summer organi-zation, and, except in name,had none of the character-istics of a regular yachtingorganization. The Carolinaclub, with head-quarters atWilmington (if I am notmistaken). North Carolina,ranks fourth in pointof age, but was ofno importance ex-cept, perhaps,locally. It wasorganized in 1854, but it was not until the Brooklyn Yacht Clubwas organized in 1857, that there was any-thing like a yacht club, in the present signifi-cance of the term, in all the United had its head-quarters at the head ofGowanus Bay, and was naturally an asso-ciation of the gentlemen who had, for sev-eral years previous, made this the anchor-age for their pleasure craft. This localitywas then, and for a long time afterwardscontinued to be, the principal place forboat sailing in the city of Brooklyn. TheBrooklyn was from the first a real yacht. MR. w. Edgars cygnet. I I 12 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING.

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