Yacht Aida

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Aida was about 56' long plus bowsprit and won many races, cruised lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte under the Carter family ownership. there is a half model in the trophy room at the R.C.Y.C.

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Yachting had been popular in Cobourg as early as the 1850s. Regattas were held in the harbour and Cobourg was a noted shipbuilding centre in the early eighteen-thirties. Later, Cobourg was on of the points on Royal Canadian Yacht Club Three Point race, the others being Toronto and Rochester. This yacht was purchased in the New York city area about 1906 by H.J. and W.E.H.Carter. they sailed up the Hudson River and Erie Canal to Oswego and then to the R.C.Y.C. in Toronto. Here is was sailed and raced extensively until about 1915 when the lead keel was donated to the war effort as was the case with many other yachts. It was sold in 1918 and remained at the R.C.Y.C. for several more years. Then it was sold again and went to Kingston area. It reappeared at the National Yacht Club, Toronto as a schooner named El Viento about 1945, owned by Doug Bruce. In the early 1950s it again changed hands and went to the West Indies to be used in the inter island trade where it was lost after striking a reef.

Date of Original

c. 1910

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