Cabin sloops racing, c. 1924. The lead boat is believed to be Ray Davis’ Duchess
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Title
Cabin sloops racing, c. 1924. The lead boat is believed to be Ray Davis’ Duchess
Subject
Sailing
Description
Three cabin sloops racing. Duchess, an Islip Class designed by William Gardner in 1909 is believed to be the lead boat. Ray Davis brought Duchess to Galveston Bay in 1922. The Gardner Islip is not to be confused with the smaller Cox and Stevens Islip of which Houston Yacht Club had five in 1924.
Creator
Houston Yacht Club
Source
Houston Yacht Club Archives, LaPorte, Texas
Publisher
Houston Yacht Club via Rice University
Date
1924
Rights
This material is in the public domain. Creative Commons license: Attribution 3.0 Unported.
Format
Photograph
Type
image
Identifier
HYC00043
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Is Version Of
Published in book form as part of “From Buffalo Bayou to Galveston Bay : the history of the Houston Yacht Club” by HYC Fleet Historian Dora F. (Sam) Akkerman, 2nd edition, 2008, Houston Yacht Club, publisher.
Is Part Of
Houston Waterways collections online at https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/36090 and http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/ (search "waterways").
Has Version
View full digital object online at http://hdl.handle.net/1911/37608.
Collection
Citation
Houston Yacht Club, “Cabin sloops racing, c. 1924. The lead boat is believed to be Ray Davis’ Duchess,” Houston Waterways, accessed May 18, 2024, https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/waterways/items/show/1336.