86 Boating New Zealand
RIGHT Plans and drawings are being digitised,
giving everyone on-line access to a remarkable
repository of historical data.
BELOW No doubts about stature of the
organisation.
BOTTOM Later volumes carried the burgees of
individual clubs.Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy, France, the German Reich,
Denmark, Norway, Australia and China. By the 1880s LR-
classed ships were operating half of the world’s maritime trade.A YACHT REGISTER
Recreational boating was also incorporated into the
classifcation system. Yachting became popular in 19th century
UK – the Brits were fanatical racers and began commissioning
‘extreme’ boats: light and fast, but also fragile and insecure.
After a few fatal accidents a gentleman named Ben
Nicholson proposed the introduction of standards and rules
that led to the adoption of the International regulation for
the measurement and tonnage of the yachts. In 1878 Lloyd’s
Register of Yachts was born.