Royal Norfolk And Suffolk Yacht Club

"On April 9th, 1859, a number of "boating gentlemen" (as they were described) met at the Maid's Head Hotel in Norwich and formed "The Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club". Their reason, it appears, was that with the growing popularity of yacht racing it had been found that there were no means of controlling the behaviour of some of the watermen needed to crew the boats, for as Nicholas Everitt reported in his book "Broadland Sport": 'So flagrant were the offences of the more turbulent of this body that... more