Through East Anglia in a Motor CarVincent, James Edmund
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Through East Anglia in a Motor Car
Vincent, James Edmund
Norfolk (England) -- Description and travel; Suffolk (England) -- Description and travel
To the annals of this Yacht Club (the Royal Harwich) I am able to
contribute some little crumbs, probably not generally known, from the
_Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner_, a book already mentioned in another
connection. Would that he were alive to give permission, as he would have
given it with eager kindness, to reproduce a passage out of his genial work
which gives a vivid impression of a Harwich Regatta of 1846, throws in one
or two useful observations, and recalls some valuable associations, and
leaves a very vivid impression of the manner in which the yachtsmen of
those days enjoyed themselves when the day's sport was over. For
preliminary, it need only be said that the owner of the _Ranger_, a fast
racing yacht, had asked Mr. Turner (as he was then), a resident in North
Wales, and Mr. Parker Smith, an Irish barrister, to race the _Ranger_ for
him at Harwich during his illness. The rest may be told in Sir Llewelyn's
own words, only, beforehand, it must be noted that the yachtsman from
Wales, new to the water as he was, taught the east coast men a useful
lesson. Sir Llewelyn Turner's remarks concerning ignorant interference with
tidal action, too, deserve serious attention.
"We joined the yacht at Gravesend late in the evening, and at once set sail
for Harwich, where we arrived next morning after a rapid run. A more
agreeable and satisfactory companion than Smith I could not have desired,
and we both agreed that we felt as if we had known each other for years.
Soon after our arrival we took up our quarters at the Three Cups Hotel, as
the cabin would be required for the spare top-sails and jibs to be ready
for shifting canvas in the race.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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