Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Conversion from Imperial to Metric Measures xiv
7. Introduction xv
8. 1 Stirrings and Beginnings 1
9. 2 Restoration Yachting and Its Purposes 11
10. 3 The Development of Yachting in the Eighteenth Century 28
11. 4 The Development of Yachting in the Eighteenth Century 50
12. 5 The Landed Gentry Take Up Yachting 69
13. 6 The Slow Expansion of Yachting in Britain, 1815–1870 97
14. 7 The Development of Yachting in Ireland and the Colonies 110
15. 8 The Enthusiastic Adoption of Yachting by the Mercantile and Professional Classes after 1870 134
16. 9 The Enthusiastic Adoption of Yachting by the Mercantile and Professional Classes after 1870 150
17. 10 The Golden Age of Yachting, 1880–1900 177
18. 11 The Golden Age of Yachting, 1880–1900 209
19. 12 Between the Wars 238
20. 13 1945–1965: Home-Built Dinghies and Going Offshore 273
21. 14 Yachting’s Third ‘Golden Period’: Of Heroes and Heroines; Of Families and Marinas, 1965–1990 315
22. 15 The Summer before the Dark: Yachting in Post-Modern Times, 1990–2007 350
23. 16 After the Crash 365
24. Epilogue: Fair Winds 380
25. Bibliography 381
26. Index 419