Thursday, May 1, 2014

Throwback Thursday: "How They Hyke Out"

From a 1925 edition of the Toronto Star newspaper. This image was lifted from the Classic International-14 blog. These gentlemen were racing the L.S.S.A 14, the precursor to the International 14 in Canada.



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4 comments:

my2fish said...

Any significance to the spelling of hyke?

May 1, 2014 at 5:47 PM
Baydog said...

I didn't know Knute Rockne was a sailor!

May 2, 2014 at 1:56 PM
Tillerman said...

I think we should still wear hats like that to go sailing.

May 2, 2014 at 3:56 PM
Tweezerman said...

my2fish

You raise an interesting point. How did a word usually defined as "a brisk or long walk" come to be associated with statically suspending your upper torso to balance a small sailboat. Looking up the etymology of the word "hike", it is a recent word to the English language, first appearing in 1809. There is no indication that "hike" was originally spelled as "hyke" so I'm not sure how this spelling came about. "Hike" also means to hold or lift up so this other definition may be the one applied to sailing.

May 4, 2014 at 6:22 AM

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