YACHTING DURING THE PAST 



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gunning punt in chase manned by amateur crews in the form 

 of a couple of mud-bedrabbled bandsmen. 



Fortunately, no one was much the worse for the mishap, 

 but several of the instruments were lost, and now follows the 

 remarkable part of the story. Just twenty years afterwards 

 the author's father, 

 who had seen all that 

 is above related, was 

 yachting on Breydon 

 Water on the anni- 

 versary of that parti- 

 cular day, and seeing 

 a man trawling for 

 fish, he rowed over to 

 him in the dinghy in 

 the hope of making a 

 suitable purchase for 

 the morrow's breakfast. 

 What was his astonish- 

 ment when the man, in 

 place of fish, produced 

 a cornet that he had 

 just taken out of his 

 net, which he was able 

 to identify as belonging 

 to Tom Cosgrove, the 

 leader of the band, 

 who was upset at the 

 Burgh Water Frolic 





: WAVENEV QUEEN.' 



that very day, and 

 years previously. 



almost at that very hour, just twenty 



With the establishment of the Yacht Club and numerous 

 annual fixtures or regattas at which yacht-racing and not feast- 

 ing was the main object of the gathering, the term " water 

 frolic" rapidly died into disuse, and soon became almost 

 forgotten ; now only a native of the remoter parts, and 



