Racing at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club
FALMOUTH SUNBEAMS
“The lines and sail plan of the Sunbeam cannot fail to appeal to yachtsmen who are on the look out for a really able little boat” - Yachting Monthly 1924
Two centuries, two fleets, one aim - to celebrate the ‘brilliance of sunbeams’. You have to say where else could a boat seem so at home set amongst the rugged beauty of the wondrous River Fal. One can’t help but feel that the designer of the Sunbeam, naval architect Alfred Wesmacott watches on with a certain sense of pride and wonder. Sunbeams have been sailed in Falmouth from the Royal Cornwall Yacht Clubs for longer than most can remember. The genius of the 1923 design, by Alfred Westmacott, gives highly competitive one-design racing. The Solent fleet first raced at Cowes in 1923 and in 1924 the Falmouth fleet started with regular racing events seeing seven boats competing for the first race from Flushing.
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FALMOUTH SUNBEAMS
“The lines and sail plan of the Sunbeam cannot fail to appeal to yachtsmen who are on the look out for a really able little boat” - Yachting Monthly 1924
Two centuries, two fleets, one aim - to celebrate the ‘brilliance of sunbeams’. You have to say where else could a boat seem so at home set amongst the rugged beauty of the wondrous River Fal. One can’t help but feel that the designer of the Sunbeam, naval architect Alfred Wesmacott watches on with a certain sense of pride and wonder. Sunbeams have been sailed in Falmouth from the Royal Cornwall Yacht Clubs for longer than most can remember. The genius of the 1923 design, by Alfred Westmacott, gives highly competitive one-design racing. The Solent fleet first raced at Cowes in 1923 and in 1924 the Falmouth fleet started with regular racing events seeing seven boats competing for the first race from Flushing.
http://www.royalcornwallyachtclub.or..._Sunbeams.html
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