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The Evolution of the Yacht: From Luxury to Performance
How the yacht grew from the Dutch jacht into a royal status symbol, a racing machine and a mass-produced pleasure boat, and where performance design stands today.
Sailing Craft
Yachts and Multihulls
Pleasure sailing, dinghies, catamarans and outriggers.
A Look at the History of the Sailing Yacht
How yacht racing, and above all the America's Cup, pushed sailing yacht design forward from the schooner America of 1851 to the foiling boats of recent years.
The Development of the Catamaran
The catamaran began as twin-hull craft in Polynesia and southern India, then drew the attention of European experimenters from the seventeenth century onward.
The Development of the Catamaran: A History of Innovation
How foils, carbon fibre and giant ocean-racing multihulls turned the catamaran and trimaran into some of the fastest sailing craft ever built.
The Development of the Outrigger
How single and double outriggers carried Austronesian peoples across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and how outrigger canoes survive in sport and daily life.
The Development of the Sailing Catamaran
From the postwar Prout brothers and Hawaiian pioneers to the Hobie Cat, this is the story of the small, fast catamarans launched from the beach.
The Development of the Sailing Dinghy
How the dinghy went from a small ship's boat used as a tender to a sporting and training boat, with Victorian clubs and Uffa Fox playing key roles.
The Development of the Sailing Yacht
The sailing yacht began with the seventeenth-century Dutch jacht, spread to England after Charles II returned in 1660, and led to the first yacht clubs.
The Evolution of the Sailing Dinghy
How one-design classes such as the Optimist, Mirror and Laser, and the rules that govern them, have shaped the design and racing of the sailing dinghy.
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