H.M. 'Trial', cutter—sheer draught.
Designed by Captain Schanks, 1791.
'Kestrel,' 202 tons (Earl of Yarborough, Commodore R.Y.S.), 1839.
CHAPTER VI
RECOLLECTIONS OF SCHOONER RACING
By Lt.-Col. Sir George Leach, K.C.B., Vice-President Y.R.A.
Schooner racing has unfortunately for the present become a thing of the past; but the prominent position it at one time occupied makes it desirable to refer to the subject in any publication relating to yacht racing, for the purpose of reviving recollections of the times when races between the 'two-stickers,' or in which they took part, were considered a leading feature of the regattas of all the principal yacht clubs.
The decadence of schooner racing was primarily due to the more extensive use of steam; wealthy men preferred steam yachts, in which they had better accommodation and could move with certainty from port to port, to sailing yachts, in which the accommodation was less spacious and the powers of locomotion were dependent on the winds and tides. But to the true lover of the world of waters the pleasures of steaming do not bear comparison with the pleasures of sailing.