The new international encyclopaedia . ntil the nineteenthcentury. The ketch-rigged pirogue Trouble, builtby Jolui C. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., is calledthe first yacht in the United The firstAmerican yacht to gain fame as a racer was theschooner Wave, built by Stevens in 1832. Shewas 65 feet long and had a wide V-shaped cross-section. The schooner Oimeraclc, also a Stevens yacht,is notable because she had a plate of iron 12feet long and 4 feet deep fastened to her keelas a fin, to serve as ballast and give lateralplane—the fin-keel yaclit. On July 30, 1844,the New York Yaclit
The new international encyclopaedia . ntil the nineteenthcentury. The ketch-rigged pirogue Trouble, builtby Jolui C. Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., is calledthe first yacht in the United The firstAmerican yacht to gain fame as a racer was theschooner Wave, built by Stevens in 1832. Shewas 65 feet long and had a wide V-shaped cross-section. The schooner Oimeraclc, also a Stevens yacht,is notable because she had a plate of iron 12feet long and 4 feet deep fastened to her keelas a fin, to serve as ballast and give lateralplane—the fin-keel yaclit. On July 30, 1844,the New York Yaclit (^lub was organized in hercabin. This is called the first American yacbtclub. The New York Yacht Club began witheight yachts. Its first home was a wooden struc-ture on the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Usfirst races were sailed on the Hudson. In 1903its home was in the finest yacht club house inthe world, and its ficet numbered 551, of whichseveral were steamers nearly twice as large asany merchant ship afloat in 1844. Its record. rnpi/nnl,!, ,i,J,fmf IhnI ,V.« Yiul: RELIANCE
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