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The introduction of the racing machine to Broadland 

 Waters has been regretted by many, if not by all the most 

 prominent racing men, as in this class everything is sacrificed 

 to speed. The beautiful lines of a racing yacht are enchanged 

 for a wooden dish, and the stability of old is supplanted by a 

 skin- about as thick as an ordinary cigar box, which bends 

 about like a basket and cannot be expected to last more than 

 a couple of seasons. 



Were it not for the 

 cruisers which sail under 

 handicap regulations we 

 should not, at the present 

 day, have a real yacht 

 at all to look upon at 

 Broadland regattas. 

 The cruiser class is 

 made up of the racers 

 of ten, twenty and thirty 

 years ago, together with 

 a modern type of boat 

 which certain builders 

 are turning out for the 

 express purpose of com- 

 peting in the class. 



The most prominent 

 boats between 1895 and 

 1901 were the following : White Wings, cutter, eleven tons (Mr 

 R. P. Chamberlin) ; Barbara, sloop, six tons (Mr H. Champion") ; 

 lo, cutter, ten tons (Mr F. Clifton) ; Castanet, cutter, three tons 

 or 25.4 rating (Mr R. J. Colman) ; Sayonara, cutter, five tons 

 (Mr E. P. Buckworth) ; Phantom, cutter, seven tons (Mr. H. 

 M. Cadge) ; Bodagh, lug, 24'3 rating (Mr G. M. Chamberlin, 

 now Mr Lawrence Mills) ; Magpie, lug, two tons (Mr W. P. 

 Barratt) ; Ada, cutter, four tons (Rev. B. G. Barnard-Smith) ; 

 Playmate, cutter, six tons or 29 '4 rating (Mr. H. P. Crowe) : 

 Ladye, sloop, four tons (Mr E. C. Hawkins) ; Doreen, cutter^ 

 twenty tons or 38'6 rating (Messrs F. Last and C. H. Last) ; 



FROM THE ONE DESIGN CLASS. 



