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WHERRIES RACING ON WROXHAM BROAD. 



CHAPTER XXI 



YACHTS AND YACHTING DURING THE PRESENT, 

 1880 TO 1900 



IN 1882 several yachts of the small four- ton class were built on 

 an entirely new model, namely, with greater depth of body, 

 displacement and freeboard, yet at the same time with less 

 beam. The Dolly, built by Messrs Hastings of Great Yarmouth 

 for Mr Morgan, was an extreme type in this respect, but the 

 Trixie, built by Mr Brighton of Southtown, Great Yarmouth, 

 for Mr E. Tilly ard, was a beautiful boat, and for several years 

 carried all before her. She was about twenty-four feet six 

 inches on the water-line, six feet six inch beam, with a draught of 

 three feet nine inches. Another boat, the eleven-ton Mocking 

 Bird, built for Mr Prescott Westcar, from designs by Mr Dixon 

 Kemp, raced at the Isle of Wight with success but was an utter 

 failure here ; she was rigged as a Una. In 1883 the Constance, 

 another Una-rigged boat, proved a failure. In 1885 Mr 



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