1720: World’s first yachting club founded ... 1863: The Star of India is built as a fully square-rigged ship. 1900: Sailing becomes an Olympic sport in Paris. 1920: First aerodynamics designs ...

days of sail. The lofty square-rigged ships that ran down to Chile for nitrates, the racing clippers of the tea trade fetching home from China, are now history -- the silent power of sail ...

Square-rig sailing ships that carried tens of thousands of fortune seekers to San Francisco during the Gold Rush vanished long ago, but tall ships from as far away as Russia and New Zealand will ...