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by Mr J. Hastings, and owned by Mr N. Sum 1 ing, of Great 

 Yarmouth; the Ada, (Mr A. Watling) ; Terrier (Mr H. 

 Osborne) ; Mosquito (Mr H. Reynolds) ; Imp (Mr T. Morgan, 

 afterwards Dr A. Marshall); Flash (Mr R. G. Bateley) ; 

 Castanet (Mr R. J. Colman); Silver Star (Mr C. W. Barton) ; 

 Prairie Flower (Mr W. G. Everitt) ; and the Odd Trick (Mr 

 E. Morse). 



The nineties saw 

 the decline of the large 

 cutters, and so un- 

 popular did the river 

 fixtures of the Norfolk 

 aid Suffolk Yacht Club 

 become, as compared 

 with those of the Yare 

 Sailing Club, that it 

 was difficult to get 

 sufficient entries to 

 make a race at all. 

 Few new boats were 

 built, and had it not 

 been for the energy of 

 Messrs F. & C. Last, 

 who seemed determined 

 to have a yacht cap- 

 able of beating the 



Wanderer II., the BHiHHHHHHiiHHHHJlHB! 

 classes of the club 

 would have had to be 



altered. The two gentlemen named built several nine-ton 

 craft, which always came in second, until the Corona (called 

 by yokels, Crowner Anglice, Coroner), built for them by 

 Mr C. Peed of Oulton Broad, and altered by Messrs Page & 

 Chambers of Lowestoft, at last turned the tables. 



About 1890 the racing machine, Gossip, was designed 

 and built by Mr George Mollett of Brundall. She was 

 as quaint a looking craft as one could well meet with and 



