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Few organising bodies in international sport can claim to have been founded almost 200 years ago. Even fewer still play a leading role in their sport but The Royal Western Yacht Club is one of them.

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The Club was founded in 1827, when to go to sea for fun and not out of necessity was considered at best unusual and, by many, even eccentric. But Plymouth had for centuries been inseparable from every kind of maritime adventure and it would have been even more surprising if the city had not given birth to one of the world’s first yacht clubs...