Sailboat History Timeline 2

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Sailboat History Timeline 2

Sailboat History Timeline 2 of 5 from 1680 to 1895 at Timeline Help.

- 1680

- 17th century

- 1720

- 1760

- 1768 - 1771

- 1790

- 1797

- 1800

- 1830

- 1844

- 1851 - 1983

- 1851

- 1860

- 1863

- 1884

- 1869

- 1878

- 1886

- 1895

The Barca-longa two or three-masted lugger in Spain, Portugal and in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Bermuda rig or Marconi rig with mast and rigging is created in Bermuda.

World's first yachting club founded in Ireland, the Water Club of Cork.

The HMS Victory is constructed for of the British Royal Navy, and is used at the Battle of Trafalgar with commander Lord Nelson. Now in Portsmouth as a museum. Many tall ships and windjammers in sailboat history timeline 2 become a museum.

Explorer James Cook is the first to cross over through cape horn, through the Pacific and discover east coast of the continent of Australia and New Zealand.

First iceboat at the Hudson River in New York.

Edmund Hartt Shipyard launches the USS Constitution, a three-masted heavy wooden frigate of the US Navy.

Barquentine vessels with three or more masts are built.

From now on flax is replaced by cotton.

The New York Yacht Club is founded.

U S sailors win numerous international sailboat races of the America Cup.

First Annual Regatta around the Isle of Wight between American and British competitors.

Yoal aka Ness Yoal used in the Shetland Islands.

The Star of India is built as a fully square-rigged ship.

The Fisherman's Wharf build the first American Felucca traditional wooden sailing boats, normally used in the Red Sea and along the Nile. The Sailboat History Timeline 2 only regards the western hemisphere.

The Cutty Sark merchant clipper is built by Scott & Linton shipyard. Now in dry dock at Greenwich near London.

Russell and Company in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland builds the four masted full rigged Falls of Clyde. Now a museum ship in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Charles Connell and Co. in Glasgow builds the Balclutha, aka Pacific Queen or Star of Alaska. Now an offcial US National Historic Landmark in San Francisco.

Hans Bendixsen builds the schooner C.A. Thayer for the lumber trade at the American west coast.

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Bibliography of the Sailboat History Timeline 2

Chisnell, M and McDonald, N (2006). Secrets of Sailboat Racing.
Mendlowitz, B, Bray, M and White, J (1996). Guide to Wooden Boats; Schooners, Ketches, Cutters, Sloops, Yawls, Cats.
Jones, G O (2002). American Sailboat.
Taylor, L and Pearson, E A (2006). The Ensign Story, North America's Largest Class of Full-keel, One Design Sailboats.
Jones, G O (2004). Herreshoff Sailboats.
Rousmaniere, J and Smith, M (1999). The Annapolis Book of Seamanship.
Seidman, D (1995). Complete Sailor, Learning the Art of Sailing,
Brewer, E S (1985). Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design.

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