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A New History of Yachting (Hardcover)
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A New History of Yachting (Hardcover)
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An overview of the history of yachting in its social, cultural,
political and economic contexts. Shortlisted for the Maritime
Foundation's Mountbatten Award 2018 This book, by a leading expert
in the field, is the first major history of yachting for over a
quarter of a century. Setting developments within political,social
and economic changes, the book tells the story of yachting from
Elizabethan times to the present day: the first uses of yachts, by
monarchs, especially Charles II; yacht clubs and yacht racing in
the eighteenth century; the early years of the Royal Yacht Squadron
at Cowes and an analysis of the America Cup challenges; the
pioneering developments in Ireland and the exporting of yachting to
the colonies and trading outposts of the Empire; the expansion of
yachting in Victorian times; the Golden Age of Yachting in the
years before the First World War, when it was the sport of the
crowned heads of Europe; the invention of the dinghy and the
keelboat classes and, after the Second World War, the massive
numbers of home-built dinghies; the breaking of new boundaries by
risk-taking single-handers from the mid-1960s; the expansion of
leisure sailing that came in the 1980s with the use of moulded
plastic yachts; and current trends and pressures within the sport.
Well-referenced yet highly readable, this book will be of interest
both to the scholar and the sailing enthusiast. MIKE BENDER is an
experienced yachtsman and qualified Ocean Yachtmaster, with some
forty thousand miles, mostly singlehanded, under the keel. He is an
Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Exeter.
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