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BRITISH YACHTING. BY C. J. C. McALISTER. Immediately succeeding the prosaic and practical period of the Commonwealth, amongst the numerous sports and pastimes which Charles II. introduced to amuse his subjects, long tired of the restraints of the Puritan rule, was the sailing of pleasure-boats in trials of speed, on the Thames near Lambeth. The Merrie Monarch himself apparently evinced considerable interest in these aquatic contests, which were amongst the most manly and healthful amusements of an essentially effeminate period of English history ; but he seems to have utterly failed to succeed in inducing the lords and ladies of his luxurious court to appreciate a pastime attended frequently with so many minor in- conveniencies as must have resulted from the climatic conditions under which boat- sailing was and is practised during the short and uncertain season of an English summer. Towards the close of his reign these regattas, inaugurated with the Restoration, which furnish the first record of English yachting, were discontinued altogether. The pastime, as now indulged in, is an institution of comparatively recent date. The first club was formed in 1720, at Queenstown, Ireland, under the title of the Cork Harbour Water Club, which is now known as the Royal Cork Yacht Club. It was not till 1812 that the sister island followed the example through some forty gentlemen establishing a similar association at the Isle of Wight, known as " The Yacht Club," which continued steadily to increase in membership and importance until 1820, when it attracted the attention of William IV., then Duke of Clarence, who ordered that it should henceforth be styled "The Royal Yacht Club," and a few years after his accession to the throne S6 141
Title | Yachts and yachting |
Creator | Cozzens, Frederic Schiller |
Publisher | Cassell & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | [c1887] |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000139 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | BRITISH YACHTING. BY C. J. C. McALISTER. Immediately succeeding the prosaic and practical period of the Commonwealth, amongst the numerous sports and pastimes which Charles II. introduced to amuse his subjects, long tired of the restraints of the Puritan rule, was the sailing of pleasure-boats in trials of speed, on the Thames near Lambeth. The Merrie Monarch himself apparently evinced considerable interest in these aquatic contests, which were amongst the most manly and healthful amusements of an essentially effeminate period of English history ; but he seems to have utterly failed to succeed in inducing the lords and ladies of his luxurious court to appreciate a pastime attended frequently with so many minor in- conveniencies as must have resulted from the climatic conditions under which boat- sailing was and is practised during the short and uncertain season of an English summer. Towards the close of his reign these regattas, inaugurated with the Restoration, which furnish the first record of English yachting, were discontinued altogether. The pastime, as now indulged in, is an institution of comparatively recent date. The first club was formed in 1720, at Queenstown, Ireland, under the title of the Cork Harbour Water Club, which is now known as the Royal Cork Yacht Club. It was not till 1812 that the sister island followed the example through some forty gentlemen establishing a similar association at the Isle of Wight, known as " The Yacht Club," which continued steadily to increase in membership and importance until 1820, when it attracted the attention of William IV., then Duke of Clarence, who ordered that it should henceforth be styled "The Royal Yacht Club," and a few years after his accession to the throne S6 141 |
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