Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . MR. w. Edgars cygnet. I I 12 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN I MR. C. B. MILLERS SYBIL. club, as was also the Jersey City, whichwas organized in 1858, and which was thenatural associating together of gentlemenwho were in the daily habit, during thesummer, of sailing their boats from alongthe shores of Communipaw Bay. Fromthis time on, for seven years, New Yorkwas the home of yachting, no club beingorganized in any other waters; but in1865, the Boston club was organized, andthis is the oldest club in the New EnglandStates. B
Yachts and yachting : with over one hundred and ten illustrations . MR. w. Edgars cygnet. I I 12 THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN I MR. C. B. MILLERS SYBIL. club, as was also the Jersey City, whichwas organized in 1858, and which was thenatural associating together of gentlemenwho were in the daily habit, during thesummer, of sailing their boats from alongthe shores of Communipaw Bay. Fromthis time on, for seven years, New Yorkwas the home of yachting, no club beingorganized in any other waters; but in1865, the Boston club was organized, andthis is the oldest club in the New EnglandStates. By this time, the Brooklyn club had grown large enough to put out an off-shoot, and a few of its members withdrewfrom it and organized the Atlantic, whichis the eighth yachting organization in thiscountry, having been organized in 1867, the Columbia club was organizedon the West side of the town, having itshead-quarters at the foot of Christopherstreet—if I remember aright—and, likethe Brooklyn and Jersey City, it was a nat-ural association of gentlemen who hadbeen in the habit of keeping their boats THE HISTORY OF
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