Corinthian Yacht/Sailing/Boat clubs in the UK?

[Fascadale]

Have I left any out?

Forth Corinthian YC
Tay Corinthian BC
Clyde Corinthian YC
Bristol Corinthian YC (Sails on a lake)
Royal Plymouth Corinthian YC
Babbacombe Corinthian YC
Teign Corinthian YC
Cowes Corinthian YC
Royal Portsmouth Corinthian YC
Londom Corinthian SC
Royal Corinthian YC

Apologies to those I may have left out

Defunct Corinthian Yachting/Sailing/Boating Clubs

Bangor Corinthian Sailing Clud
Torbay Corinthian Sailing Club

Any more?

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Burnham on Crouch ?

 

[Fascadale]

Burnham on Crouch ?

Is Burham on Crouch not the home of the Royal Corinthian YC

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Is Burham on Crouch not the home of the Royal Corinthian YC

Apologies.
Senior moment alert.

 

[jbweston]

I'd love to be able to tell you there's a Shackerstone Corinthian YC on the Ashby Canal. But there isn't. As far as I know.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

I'd love to be able to tell you there's a Shackerstone Corinthian YC on the Ashby Canal. But there isn't. As far as I know.

As the term indicates wealthy gentlemen who used slaves/servants to help them in leisure pursuits (but never ever trade) you should be thankful

 

[The Q]

As the term indicates wealthy gentlemen who used slaves/servants to help them in leisure pursuits (but never ever trade) you should be thankful

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Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more


adjective

1. 1.
   belonging or relating to Corinth, especially the ancient city.
   "Corinthian vase-painters"
2. 2.
   involving the highest standards of amateur sportsmanship.
   "a club embodying the Corinthian spirit"
   

noun

1. 1.
   a native of Corinth.
   
   
2. 2.
   the Corinthian order of architecture.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

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Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more


adjective

1. 1.
   belonging or relating to Corinth, especially the ancient city.
   "Corinthian vase-painters"
2. 2.
   involving the highest standards of amateur sportsmanship.
   "a club embodying the Corinthian spirit"

noun

1. 1.
   a native of Corinth.
   
   
2. 2.
   the Corinthian order of architecture.

If you look at the history it says it originally meant ‘gentlemen of means, who used paid crews. The dictionary gives apparent usage today, but as clearly yotties are not temple builders or vase painters, the only reasonable assumption is that the gentlemen were comparing themselves to greek slave owning aristos. Why I cant guess

 

[ImpImp]

If you look at the history it says it originally meant ‘gentlemen of means, who used paid crews. The dictionary gives apparent usage today, but as clearly yotties are not temple builders or vase painters, the only reasonable assumption is that the gentlemen were comparing themselves to greek slave owning aristos. Why I cant guess

Which only goes to illustrate a lack of knowledge about UK society at the time of their founding and indeed of classical civilisation on your part.

 

[ithet]

Wasn't the Royal Corinthian set up for gentlemen to take ladies who were not their wives, which they didn't wish to take to the RYS?

 

[LittleSister]

Any suggestions of alternative ancient Greek city states one might name one's imagined/desired yacht/sailing club after in order to capture the intended spirit or habit of the club membership envisaged?

 

[oldmanofthehills]

There were great greek virtues re philosophy but they despised practical applications as ungentlemaly thus readily conquered by practical romans.

A yes I read Xenophon and Thucidices etc and have more than a bit of understanding

Even the democratic city states were slave dependant, so none is a good model for a modern uk club

I pressed i would go for Athens

 

[ylop]

I've always wondered if there was any official link between them - like a sort of franchise model or umbrella organisation or did they all just like the sound of it?

 

[laika]

Any suggestions of alternative ancient Greek city states one might name one's imagined/desired yacht/sailing club after in order to capture the intended spirit or habit of the club membership envisaged?

For those that just want to race their bare-bones stripped down racing yachts I guess it's the Spartan clubs. Those of us whose boats have a whole catalogue of cruising tat may prefer the Argosian ones

 

[Fascadale]

I've always wondered if there was any official link between them - like a sort of franchise model or umbrella organisation or did they all just like the sound of it?

From what I know of Corinthian Yachting/ Sailing/Boating clubs today there are no interclub connections.

From what I have discovered the Corinthian movement in sailing was about ameteurism, rather than the employment of professional crews in the racing yachts of the later Victorian period.

Implicit in this are issues of wealth and thus social class. I have heard that members of a "Royal" club refered to its neighbouring "Corinthian" club as the "cloth cap club" though this was some years ago

This is further illustrated by Dr Mike Bender in his paper "A History of the Fragility of Yacht Clubs" where he writes

"The Royal Torbay was founded by Sir Lawrence Palk, a major landowner in the area………….………………..Ten years later, in 1895, the Torquay Corinthian Sailing Club was formed."

and

"In Bangor, Northern Ireland, ‘the Royal Ulster had been founded in 1866………19 Local people of more limited means, desiring a club for local enthusiasts…………… then set up Bangor Corinthian Sailing Club"

The existence of the Royal Plymouth and Royal Portsmouth Corinthian YCs as well as the Royal Corinthian YC seem anomalous and contradictory to these theories

 

[john_morris_uk]

It's not got Corinthian it its name but Mudhook Yacht Club
was founded to promote corinthian sailing competition.

 

[Fascadale]

It's not got Corinthian it its name but Mudhook Yacht Club
was founded to promote corinthian sailing competition.

Mudhook Yacht Club..................from their archive

"This club was to be something special with the main aim being “to encourage Corinthian yachting” and not “to give expensive races for professional skippers steering their employers’ yachts”."

Very good

 

[michael_w]

As an ex member of the London Corinthian SC. I always thought that Corinthian meant amateur, rather than professional. Taking the Riddle of the Sands as an example, Davies would have been a member of a Corinthian club.

 

[creeks]

The existence of the Royal Plymouth and Royal Portsmouth Corinthian YCs as well as the Royal Corinthian YC seem anomalous and contradictory to these theories

Presumably the existence of the Cowes Corinthian and the Royal Corinthian in the same town would emphasise this contradiction.

 

[PWLS08]

Any suggestions of alternative ancient Greek city states one might name one's imagined/desired yacht/sailing club after in order to capture the intended spirit or habit of the club membership envisaged?

Eresos? More a village than a city state though.