I said that I knew little about regattas and cared less, that a day spent in watching and listening to the birds gave me more pleasure than all the regattas in the country.
Several of them had come over from the Ostend Regatta, one of them bringing an enormous silver cup, by far the largest I ever saw in the numerous regattas in which I was a participator.
I have been at vast numbers of regattasand have seen many topmasts carried away in races, and in one case a lower mast head with the topmast, but two lower masts out of four in a class was a unique experience.
Other clubs whose regattas are held at the same period of the season should be addressed, and dates arranged to suit both clubs and owners.
The record table is compiled from the reports of the regattas given in the Y.
The schooners continued well to hold their own against the cutters and yawls in the regattas of the season.
Some small-yacht racing men do not like to be always remaining in their home waters, but prefer to go round to the regattas at other ports, and try their luck against the small yachts that gather at these meetings.
Some of these town regattas are managed in a most remarkable manner, the fireworks at night being perhaps the most important matter for consideration in the eyes of the Committee.
Just look in at the regattas to the westward, and then run over to Cherbourg.
We were present at most of the regattas to the westward, but as they differed but little from their predecessors for many years past, I need not describe them.
The pride of Cowes has departed, its monopoly is no more, its regattas and its balls are both equalled, if not surpassed, by its younger rivals!
There are two yachting clubs, the Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club and the Yare Sailing Club, the latter a very flourishing institution, furnishing four or five regattas in the year for small 4-ton yachts and open boats.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club has flourished exceedingly, and itsregattas are popular.
Don't you ever want to go to regattas and dances and jollifications?
At the same time it must be remembered (Rule I of Rules for Regattas) that at regattasheld in accordance with A.
The most eventful of these big regattas was that of 1874 at Saratoga, when nine boats entered.
Under its auspices regattasare held in the harbour of Sydney, and one on the Parramatta River.
I sailed her for two years in the various regattas round the coast, on the Solent and on the Clyde, but she was only fairly successful.
Our regattas were conducted with much keenness, and created great enthusiasm.
The regattas and rowing-matches on the Isis are very exciting affairs.
In these regattas the sailing of the yacht is half the battle, and these young fellows may ruin your reputation as a boat-builder, if you don't look out for them.
On the Saturday in question, a meeting of the club at the Head had been called to complete the arrangements for a regatta, and the Committee on Regattas were to make their report.
He attended all the regattas as a matter of business, as well as of pleasure; and he had seen the Sea Foam beaten twice by the Skylark since he won the memorable race in the former.
In all futureregattas the result will depend more upon the sailing than upon the boats.
The poor old Thames is only used for regattas now, and penny steamers.
But there aren't many regattas going on in the regions below London Bridge nowadays.
Half an hour of this was quite sufficient, and we returned to our hotel, feeling that foreign regattas were just as much a slow and stupid pastime as they usually are in England.
Regattas have for a season or two been known at Staines and Chertsey, but they depended on some one or two local men of energy, and, when this support failed, they died out.
Owing to the action of the chairman of a steamboat company and other gentlemen who had other interests than those of boating to serve, these regattas have lapsed.
How the second series of Thames National regattas followed the fate of series No.
The latter came off all the same that year, there thus being two Thames regattas for one season.
Foreign crews which seek to compete at our regattas are often of a very dubious character as regards amateurship.
The elder had been a champion amateur long-distance runner; the younger had won the amateur boxing championship, and had rowed a good oar at Henley regattas and elsewhere.
A good deal of the history of old regattas at which watermen contended is necessarily mixed with the history of the rise of professional racing, and will be found to be dealt with under that heading in another chapter.
Many regattas offered prizes for pair oars with coxswains in outrigged gigs.
So far these regattas had been promoted solely for sport, and in pure unselfishness.
A perusal of the tables of records of Henley and other regattas will also show how competitions gradually increased in number, and also in the fields which they produced.
Through the minor regattas of the summer he took refuge with an 'Oscillators' crew, and shoved three inferior men behind along at such a pace that next season it was impossible to ignore him.
The consequence was that only sevenregattas came off during the season, exclusive of the Royal Regatta, which was again held at Bembridge.
Bermuda has a Royal Yacht Club which gives prizes and holds regattas at Hamilton.
The first and second regattas introduced races for boats or yachts of 25 feet and 30 feet on the load water-line.
In 1891 the club started regattas for the small classes which were then becoming so prominent.
Regattas are held at various points on the river, and there are, in addition, local regattas unconnected with clubs.
The present club-house at Rothesay was built in 1878, and the Royal Northern Yacht Club regattas are naturally always now held at that place, started from the Commodore's yacht which is moored off Craigmore for that purpose.
There are two boating clubs in existence which provide regattasfor the encouragement of sailing.
She is supposed to be a better boat in rough water than the 'Wanderer,' running her close also in the river reaches at Cantley, where the regattas are frequently held.
It has a large number of members, most of them keen boat-sailers, and its regattas are well attended and the races numerously and keenly contested.
Many of these spectators are very critical, and attend these regattas in order to study fine points of sailing, and to learn what models will show the greatest speed.
Some of the finest yachts of the New York, Brooklyn, Atlantic, and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs are built from models furnished by winners of races and regattas on the lakes of Central and Prospect Parks.
The regattas held in different fleets and squadrons had become yearly events keenly looked forward to by both officers and men.
It is very much the habit at men-of-war regattas to encourage the best oars in a ship to pull in two or three (sometimes in four or five) races.
It was before the time when fleet regattas were instituted.
Ann's fame as a rower at regattas spread throughout England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regattas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
