Celebrating the Centenary: Royal Lymington Yacht Club

The Royal Lymington Yacht Club has celebrated its centenary by raising expectations and interest in a UK-wide recognized sailing programme for local youngsters, resulting in many of them winning Olympics medals. Other members have cruised round the world for fun, and some have risen to be world champions in racing classes. This snapshot of a hundred years of a Royal Club is an absorbing collage of yachting, educational, and social events in a thriving club at the epicentre of the boating world of the New Forest, the Solent, and Lymington River.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2022
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group

A century, a hundred, a ton, whether in sport, in life, or an exam result, raises expectations and interest. When it is a celebration of a leading yacht club's longevity, pens descend on paper. From small beginnings after the First World War, the Royal Lymington Yacht Club has become one of the UK's leading sports clubs. The club's patron, HRH Princess Anne, has seen the club lead the way in a UK-wide recognized sailing program for local youngsters, resulting in many of them winning Olympics medals. Other members have cruised around the world for fun, some more than once, while others have risen to be world champions in a variety of racing classes, up to and including the America's Cup. This snapshot of a hundred years of a Royal Club is an absorbing collage of yachting, educational, and social events in a thriving club that is at the epicenter of the boating world of the New Forest, the Solent, and Lymington River.

A century, a hundred, a ton, whether in sport, in life, or an exam result, raises expectations and interest. When it is a celebration of a leading yacht club's longevity, pens descend on paper. From small beginnings after the First World War, the Royal Lymington Yacht Club has become one of the UK's leading sports clubs. The club's patron, HRH Princess Anne, has seen the club lead the way in a UK-wide recognized sailing program for local youngsters, resulting in many of them winning Olympics medals. Other members have cruised around the world for fun, some more than once, while others have risen to be world champions in a variety of racing classes, up to and including the America's Cup. This snapshot of a hundred years of a Royal Club is an absorbing collage of yachting, educational, and social events in a thriving club that is at the epicenter of the boating world of the New Forest, the Solent, and Lymington River.

Dimension: 240 x 196 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914414893