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The History of the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club by Jamie Campbell
Profusely illustrated with a thousand, often historic, photographs in both black and white and colour, this new history of the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club runs to nearly five hundred pages . The reader is taken through a hundred and fifty years of yachting from the inaugural meeting in the Maid’s Head Hotel in Norwich to the present day.
Jamie Campbell, a contributor to Anglia Afloat magazine, local author and longstanding RNSYC member, claims to have taken eleven years to assemble this material which must now represent one of the most detailed histories of any yacht club. Chapters range from research and coverage of early Broads yachting, with their origins firmly in Victorian high-stakes gambling, to Lowestoft’s special place in our maritime heritage. Between 1918 and 1939 the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club was one of the most influential in the country. The club was largely responsible for starting the International 14 class and sent the very first dinghy team abroad to compete in an international event. In those days members travelled First Class by ocean liner and were accompanied by their paid hands in steerage. There are tales of Uffa Fox, Morgan Giles, Olympic campaigns and the America Cup, all taking place against a continuous background of recurring surnames, Broads regattas and the Broads One Design Class. In the centenary year, the Commodore was able to claim that Great Britain had only won two Olympic Gold medals for yachting in fifty years and both had been won by members. Your club has a proud history. Our more recent successes in Dragons, Squibs, 707, Flying Fifteen and other classes are also covered, as are the building of the marina and growth of our cruiser fleet.
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