us Engagement..." builders of more than local fame, Besides them, in almost every port and on the shores lof almost every navigable waterway, are the men who work in a small way, builders of punts, canoes, dinghies, yachts and small motor boats, who seldom' construct a boat of any considerable size. Statistics relating to the sport of yachting and boating are not to be obtained, there are only more or less reliable estimates. The opinions of experts as to the Jnumber of. British yachts vary between 4,000 jand 6,000. Most of these are registered at Lloyd's, but there are large numbers of small jeraft under five tons which are not registered. [There are over 190 principal yacht clubs, which organize hundreds of large and small regattas jand races; the principal feature of the yachtsman's year being the Royal Yacht Squadron's "Cowes Week." During the summer months between - 20.000 and 30,000 serious yachtsmen frequent the principal yachting centres, but {for every one of them there must be a score Jot casual lovers of the sport who, through lack lof opportunity, can only-indulge in this pastime lat the weekend or on holidays.
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