A yacht is a sailing or power vessel used for pleasure,cruising,or racing. There is no standard definition,though the term generally applies to vessels with a cabin intended for overnight use. To be termed a yacht,as opposed to a boat,such a pleasure vessel is likely to be at least 33 feet (10 m) in length and may have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities.
A trimaran is a multihull boat that comprises a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls which are attached to the main hull with lateral beams. Most modern trimarans are sailing yachts designed for recreation or racing;others are ferries or warships. They originated from the traditional double-outrigger hulls of the Austronesian cultures of Maritime Southeast Asia;particularly in the Philippines and Eastern Indonesia,where it remains the dominant hull design of traditional fishing boats. Double-outriggers are derived from the older catamaran and single-outrigger boat designs.
Hythe is a town in Hampshire,England. It is located by the shore of Southampton Water,and has a ferry service connecting it to Southampton. Hythe has a shopping area,a pier,and a marina for yachts.
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar,or arrangement of spars,erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails,spars,and derricks,giving necessary height to a navigation light,look-out position,signal yard,control position,radio aerial or signal lamp. Large ships have several masts,with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship. Nearly all sailing masts are guyed.
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff was an American naval architect,mechanical engineer,and yacht design innovator. He produced a succession of undefeated America's Cup defenders between 1893 and 1920.
A superyacht or megayacht is a large and luxurious pleasure vessel. There are no official or agreed upon definitions for such yachts,but these terms are regularly used to describe professionally crewed motor or sailing yachts,ranging from 40 metres (130 ft) to more than 180 metres (590 ft) in length,and sometimes include yachts as small as 24 metres (79 ft).
Denys Arthur Rayner DSC &Bar,VRD,RNVR was a Royal Navy officer who fought throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. After intensive war service at sea,Rayner became a writer,a farmer,and a successful designer and builder of small sailing craft –his first being the Westcoaster;his most successful being the glass fibre gunter or Bermudian rigged twin keel Westerly 22 from which evolved similar "small ships" able to cross oceans while respecting the expectations,in terms of comfort,safety and cost,of a burgeoning family market keen to get to sea. Before his death in 1967,Rayner had founded,and via his pioneering GRP designs,secured the future expansion of Westerly Marine Construction Ltd –up until the late 1980s,one of Britain's most successful yacht builders.
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) is a private yacht club in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. Founded in 1852,it is one of the world's older and larger yacht clubs. Its summer home is on a trio of islands in the Toronto Islands. Its winter home since 1984 has been a purpose-built clubhouse located at 141 St. George Street in Toronto,which includes facilities for sports and social activities. In 2014,the club had approximately 4700 members,about 450 yachts and a number of dinghies,principally International 14s.
Czesław Antony Marchaj,often known in the West as C.A. Marchaj or Tony Marchaj,was a Polish-British yachtsman whose published scientific studies of the aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of sailing boats have been influential on yacht,sail and rig designers. He was the author of Sailing Theory and Practice and approximately 60 other publications on sailing. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA),and he was awarded the Silver Medal of The International Sailing Federation (ISAF).
Southampton was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the town of Southampton,it returned two members of parliament (MPs) from 1295 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Frederick Emmart Hood was an American yachtsman and naval architect. He founded the sailmaker Hood Sails in Marblehead,Massachusetts in 1952. Hood Sails operated until purchased by Quantum Sails in 2017. Hood founded Little Harbor Custom Yachts in 1959 and sold it to Hinckley Yachts in 1999. He won the America's Cup in 1974 skippering the yacht Courageous,which was built at Minnefords Shipyard in City Island,New York,after which he built a what he believed to have been a faster yacht and sold Courageous to Ted Turner,who beat him in it on his way to winning the 1977 America's Cup.
Charley E. Morgan was a legendary American sailboat racer and designer. He was best known as the founder of Morgan Yacht Corporation.
Luke &Co was a boatbuilding firm,established in 1829 in Limehouse near London. They moved to Oakbank at Itchen Ferry in 1868,and in 1895,settled at Hamble. At Hamble,they designed and built yachts of all sizes,as well as providing all kinds of services to the yachts visiting or having a berth at the river. The river Hamble was a popular place to "lay up" yachts for the winter.
Amazon is a 102-foot (31 m) long screw schooner and former steam yacht built in 1885 at the private Arrow Yard of Tankerville Chamberlayne in Southampton.
A Bristol Channel pilot cutter is a type of sailing boat used until the early part of the 20th century to deliver and collect pilots to and from merchant vessels using ports in the Bristol Channel. Each pilot worked individually,in competition with other pilots. Especially after 1861,the level of competition required larger and faster cutters,as pilots went "seeking" at much greater distances. The resulting boats were known for their ability to sail in the most extreme weather,for speed and sea-kindliness. They were designed for short handed sailing,often manned only by a man and an apprentice,with one or sometimes two pilots on board.
Colin Mudie was an Edinburgh-born yacht designer,author,naval historian,balloonist,and advocate for the handicapped sailor. He studied engineering at Southampton University,before working under yacht designers including Laurent Giles and Uffa Fox. He then set up his own firm. He received the award of RDI for Small craft/ naval in 1995.
Lyle C. Hess (1912–2002) was an American naval architect,particularly known for his Aquarius and Balboa series of boats,built by Coastal Recreation.
Camper and Nicholson was a yacht design and manufacturing company based in Gosport,England,for over two hundred years,constructing many significant vessels,such as Gipsy Moth IV and Prince Philip's yacht Bloodhound. Its customers included Thomas Sopwith,William Kissam Vanderbilt II and George Spencer-Churchill,6th Duke of Marlborough. Its yachts competed in The America's Cup,The Fastnet Race,the Olympics,the Ocean Race and many other yacht races.
Arthur Edmunds was an American naval architect,credited with designing 29 sailboats as well as other boats of various types and forms. He is recognized as a top naval architect in the US. Edmunds's best known production sailboat was the Allied Princess 36.
