Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . shall be the tonnage in ionsand hundredths of a ton. one code of sailing rules in all matches, andto decide such disputes as may be referred tothe council. This association in fact bearsthe same relation to yachting as the JockeyClub does to horse racing. There is, how-ever, one important difference between thetwo pastimes. British yachtsmen have notyet learned to demoralize their favorite sportby laying wagers upon the results of yacht-racing season commences to-wards the close of May, but the nights andmornings are
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . shall be the tonnage in ionsand hundredths of a ton. one code of sailing rules in all matches, andto decide such disputes as may be referred tothe council. This association in fact bearsthe same relation to yachting as the JockeyClub does to horse racing. There is, how-ever, one important difference between thetwo pastimes. British yachtsmen have notyet learned to demoralize their favorite sportby laying wagers upon the results of yacht-racing season commences to-wards the close of May, but the nights andmornings are still chilly and the bleak eastwinds linger with sufficient force to renderlife comparatively miserable. Althoughmatches and regattas are arranged totake place at all the yachting stations dur-ing the season, there is one round in par-ticular, as indicated upon the chart, whichis regarded as including all the best sportof the year. For this cruise, which isusually attended by all the fastest andnewest boats of the racing fleet, besides a. BRITISH YACHTING. i=?i. 86 lONE. considerable number of cruisers whoseowners take an interest in the contests be-tween the crack vessels ; the yachts assem-ble on the estuary of the Thames, offGravesend, Erith and Southend. There isgood and safe holding ground, but theriver in its lower reaches neither furnishespicturesque scenery nor, owing to numeroussand banks, narrow channel and crowdedtraffic, a satisfactory course for fairly test-ing the respective merits of the competingvessels. After some half-dozen matches,sailed under the auspices of the numerousyacht clubs, with stations in this neighbor-hood, June opens with a channel matchfrom Southend, at the northeast entranceof the river, over a course of forty-fivemiles, to Harwich. This portion of theEssex coast, which is passed, is low, bareand uninteresting, but Harwich itself wellrepays a visit. It is an old-world port withno trade, and bears all the appearance ofhaving been asleep for th
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