Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . sing associations. Sir Rich-ard Sutton belongs to this club, but theGenesta is the only boat out of the entirefleet that would have the faintest chance ina race open to all comers. Cowes is gayenough during regatta week. To the rightof the bay is the club-house, a queer littlegray, ivy-clad building, that looks as if it had been built as a model for some im-portant establishment, and proved a fail-ure. Across the Madina River, on thesummit of some high, wooded land, is theroyal residence of Osborne, and out acrossthe Solent—wh
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . sing associations. Sir Rich-ard Sutton belongs to this club, but theGenesta is the only boat out of the entirefleet that would have the faintest chance ina race open to all comers. Cowes is gayenough during regatta week. To the rightof the bay is the club-house, a queer littlegray, ivy-clad building, that looks as if it had been built as a model for some im-portant establishment, and proved a fail-ure. Across the Madina River, on thesummit of some high, wooded land, is theroyal residence of Osborne, and out acrossthe Solent—which is blue, occasionally,when the weather is clear—are the low,level shores of the Hampshire mainland,and beyond Southampton Water. TheSolent is frequently well filled with mer-chant steamers, men-of-war, and sailingvessels, making their way up or down thechannel ; but as there is plenty of room,the races are seldom interfered with bytheir presence. A description of the Solent—written eighty odd years ago—describesit as being occupied by a very different. B6 BRITISH YACHTING. 157 class of craft from those found on its watersto-day. Coasting schooners, fishing-smacks, brave Indiamen, and now andthen a fighting-ship—kings, or foreigner,and here and there a sullen-looking lugger,wpon which the smart active men of the which is somewhat uncertain during thesummer, assumes as the autumn days drawin, a more defined character for the cruise I have briefly indicatedwould probably prove an attractive outingfor most American yachtsmen. They
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