This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Du.] A swift, light boat fitted up for pleasure-sailing or for racing. Yacht-racing dates from the beginning of the nineteenth century, during which it was greatly developed. Important international yacht races took, place between England and the United States, in nearly all of which the latter was victorious.
 
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