Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . organ-ized in 1867, and in the same year theSan Francisco club, at the Golden Gate,came into existence. The South Bostonwas started in 1868, the second in NewEngland, and the Bunker Hill and Port-land in 1869—a total of but fifteen yachtclubs in all the United States. In that yearMr. Ashbury, with the British schoonerCambria^ came to race for the AmericasCup, and this gave animpetus to yachting,which, aided by othercauses, has continued tothe present time, and hascaused the multiplicationof clubs, so that there American yachti
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . organ-ized in 1867, and in the same year theSan Francisco club, at the Golden Gate,came into existence. The South Bostonwas started in 1868, the second in NewEngland, and the Bunker Hill and Port-land in 1869—a total of but fifteen yachtclubs in all the United States. In that yearMr. Ashbury, with the British schoonerCambria^ came to race for the AmericasCup, and this gave animpetus to yachting,which, aided by othercauses, has continued tothe present time, and hascaused the multiplicationof clubs, so that there American yachting ; for down to the year1885 no other club ever attempted any-thing more than mere local effort. Eachorganization had its club house and an-chorage, its regattas, or more properlyspeaking, matches, over its regular course,one or more times a year, and that was few had yachts large enough, innumber sufficient, to essay a squadroncruise previous to 1870. I doubt if any ofthem except the Brooklyn had, and as forocean races, or private matches, for valua-. MR. H. WILKES are now over one hundred and twenty ofthese organizations, and they are increasingrapidly in all parts of the country, each ofthe great lake ports having its club; whilein the New England States they are morenumerous than in any other section of thecountry, and Boston, to-day, is more of ayachting center than New York itself. Still, the history of the New York YachtClub is to a great extent the history of ble prizes, all that sort of thing was leftalone to the New York club, which fromthe first has displayed an enterprise and aboldness worthy of the great city of itshome and name. I dont think that the early history ofthe club events has ever been written. I,certainly, have never seen or heard of any-thing of the kind, and then I think a briefsketch will be of interest. In no other THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN YACHTING, manner can the early history of Americanyachtinj^ be as well told. Organized July 30, 1844
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