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    BURNHAM YACHT HARBOUR

    Sep 27, 2019 5 minutes

    BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH, ESSEX 51° 37.3’N, 000° 48.1’W

    The River Crouch is an area that built its fortune on oysters; and Burnham-on-Crouch is a town that built its fame on sailing. For hundreds of years this part of the east coast was prime oyster-farming real estate. Then, in the late 1800s, leisure sailing became popular, and Burnham, on the railway line to London, with its deepwater moorings and unpolluted waters, grew to become a yachting centre of national importance that was second only to Cowes.

    This bustling little town boasts not one but two royal yacht clubs: the Royal Burnham (founded 1895, current patron the Duke of Edinburgh) and the Royal Corinthian (1892, patron Princess Anne). Corinthian club members formed the crew of Thomas Sopwith’s America’s Cup challenger, the J-Class , in 1934).

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