Monday, December 30, 2019
The Toronto Dinghy
Several years ago I was working on a sailing history project on the Genesee Dinghy, one of the earliest North American racing dinghies. It never got farther than a couple of chapters. Last week a canoe sailing historian contacted me with a question and I dug out the first chapter, "The Toronto Dinghy", which detailed the precursor to the Genesee Dinghy, the two Toronto dinghies introduced at the end of the 19th century. I reproduce a PDF of the first chapter here for the few Earwigoagin readers who are interested in early North American small boat history.
(As always, use the pop-out icon, top right, to open the PDF in another tab for printing or download.)
The George Aykroyd 14 footer would become the turn-of-the-century L.S.S.A. restricted 14-footer class.
And more L.S.S.A 14 history from the CBIFDA blog.
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