Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder
    Ebook354 pages4 hours

    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder

    By Oliver Optic

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder

    Read more from Oliver Optic

    Related to The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Where Does This Live?

      Dec 6, 2022

      The Roseville Hotel had closed many years ago, and the rooms upstairs had been converted to apartments, but the bar on the ground floor was still called the Roseville Hotel, because everyone was used to the name. One Saturday in January, John James a

      22 min read

    • Article

      Prevarication Jones

      May 1, 2019

      Prevarication Jones
      16 min read

    • Article

      In Dad’s Hands

      Nov 24, 2018

      In Dad’s Hands
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Beautiful Salmon

      Mar 19, 2024

      I’ve always loved salmon. Not to eat, as I don’t eat fish, but I’ve always loved salmon in general because salmon jump and no one knows why. They jump all over the place—out of rivers, up waterfalls. Some say they jump to clean their gills. Others sa

      19 min read

    • Article

      Grey Pride

      Oct 12, 2018

      Grey Pride
      15 min read

    • Article

      'An Odyssey' Is a Father-Son Journey With Homer as Guide

      Sep 20, 2017

      Daniel Mendelsohn didn’t ask for it – his octogenarian father did – but he got it, and got it good. Daniel could have said no when his flinty-when-not-curmudgeonly father, Jay, asked to audit the classics class Daniel was teaching at Bard College. Di

      3 min read

    • Article

      To Brown Seas And Beyond

      Jan 5, 2024

      To Brown Seas And Beyond
      3 min read

    • Article

      Sentimental Homecoming

      Nov 23, 2023

      Sentimental Homecoming
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reader's Letter

      Oct 20, 2021

      SIR: The fifth person (marked anonymous) in the photograph accompanying the piece about Chips Channon in September’s Oldie is in fact my mother, Patricia Morrison-Bell. As a child, I would listen unnoticed to many hushed conversations about Chips, an

      5 min read

    • Article

      Flat Of The land

      Jun 15, 2022

      Flat Of The land
      11 min read

    • Article

      White Silence

      Dec 22, 2020

      White Silence
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Dullard

      Jun 5, 2019

      The villagers of Yockenthwaite knew him as ‘Jack Dull’, ‘Jack Dolt,’ or sometimes just ‘The Dullard’. His real name was John Dullard, last in a long, illustrious line of Dullards, and a man – so they said – of quite miraculous stupidity. The kind of

      7 min read

    • Article

      THE GREATEST outdoors

      Aug 20, 2019

      THE GREATEST outdoors
      10 min read

    • Article

      Doodlebug & Dandelion The Big City

      Jul 1, 2023

      Doodlebug & Dandelion The Big City
      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘The End of the Day’: Featured Fiction from Bill Clegg

      Sep 30, 2020

      An excerpt from a novel Kirkus called "A moody, atmospheric domestic drama with a mystery novel somewhere in its family tree." The post ‘The End of the Day’: Featured Fiction from Bill Clegg appeared first on The Millions.

      12 min read

    • Article

      A Tribute To Tradition

      Feb 18, 2021

      A Tribute To Tradition
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Stackpole Legend

      Mar 1, 2024

      The Stackpole Legend
      13 min read

    • Article

      Fitting In

      Oct 1, 2021

      Fitting In
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Frozen Frontier

      Aug 13, 2019

      The Frozen Frontier
      14 min read

    • Article

      Reader's Letter

      May 31, 2023

      SIR: I was astonished to read (Spring issue) that Hunter Davies believes he may be the only person left in the UK who has milk delivered in glass bottles every morning. Oop ’ere in t’north, we have milk delivered in this way. We also have Ringtons Te

      6 min read

    • Article

      Nothing to Declare

      Jun 15, 2019

      All the senior partners were having a laugh about a movie they’d seen. Forty-Five Years. Something, something about the movie taking forty-five years to sit through. The woman McGuinness thought he recognized was in it with them at the far end of the

      24 min read

    • Article

      ‘There Is Nothing Wrong With Offending People’: Roddy Doyle On Getting The Band Back Together

      Sep 9, 2022

      There is a speech in Roddy Doyle’s 1987 novel, The Commitments, I’ve long wanted to ask him about. “The Irish are the N-words of Europe, lads,” the band’s manager, Jimmy Rabbitte, tells his charges. He’s trying to explain to them what a bunch of past

      6 min read

    • Article

      My Irish question

      Aug 21, 2022

      My Irish question
      11 min read

    • Article

      A holiday INDOORS

      Apr 7, 2021

      “You’ll have probably noticed that there’s been very little mention on this page during the past year of lockdowns and respiratory disease and bubbles and masks and toilet roll shortages and quarantine, and illicit Darby and Joan club meetings being

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Wonderland Dodo Cover

      Nov 13, 2020

      The Wonderland Dodo Cover
      3 min read

    • Article

      More Things In Heaven

      Dec 10, 2021

      It’s the deep mid-winter, when sailors check their warps, settle down in lamp-lit saloons, top up their bogey stoves and pour themselves a dram. If they’re in tune with the outside world, they’ll also shut off the flickering screens, kill the music m

      5 min read

    Reviews for The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder - Oliver Optic

      1^book_preview_excerpt.html\rFv~xsֈltik(Q&GEVRzfz !4*'̓n`n.s#3@뇝->oko  )'SM=Pjdb ,~{Wq~,0wCagUw.cކw| [l{V|cј)vKc[Y%h}Ho\i[ӖX*-%okQ6-q! K,!_ .FWrvEn ?(s*L/ݘv;-^l CzW<\]V?]y(~GjW|yY|Zz(|QŸxY%8xk\U\V{WaQ\6ALmoת ~[S90 C7ߐݶꄻ]۸{]"`iEݸ7ƵP(3uȍ we I{]}f[ӗ, Ep=g}gp nrŭk2vLmo}[w-މ ߜ}V ={dO'2?z<;=[w7o/NtJt/wi??\?|~{.on|ϯ%Z޽T,o_>Ev"E/77!xwh˸V]t_ L ?|\޽ZW ^>9m^~i=\^8wˇխOdA//epQ|o/?BwHooW%UznEab/07(\8vG??[d~\yx8+oWk}y5'}ֽ_|4a:Qz}[<:)}LO7S*;OQAHLow7YqoElnbk,[WJg:mJXd3 :)j6YqsſX]<,oΧ cP!۳9Z`ߝW^}={Dx&8oVgK\.bG{Q+wvufy/~t}M8F.{srX@.-\>I:{qdEGxd͏=d7!^i=B ǎ%YEP΄@l!ж~(q`4}`~܁5%\|7AIփqt$psHˑ}PX5qom ua`0b4?Qk[m'^dx^ө TO|f{=ՂS u:Gc0JHa;PvuěcaƞM,~Ɓ3'DQ,_=PShC$156c=,FԫJO9${rf *=t}$`0. ]CK^"O<, R1P q(+=;Iy4ۭiO|)A$5T#ȓ]]C.J|9^,hDac}(iR3cGh\@^X'e%<h{H*-Bd&ҫG DawMX'0(RPW M8𪱦%&>u6f;B8 q=٢Z*VM\Pg&ɥk2nkRq ? eyL%$zҪwh $1U2& Ĵ6>U[tG(|#')V!-wYp0*k+w9輂;rz|Ļ 8sggaG W:z:N=kain0B֑h X0p6D(:?B[.$@mv[Kތgࡁ}1cpùOLW YSTtX c '%'b`3 a6pw=y TbZ'o㱢Y*[&ŵR E,Qǥ,G\ -Ԣ4e%h\ h9fEJuS8C=" YP5[d_zhɮǸc`)"p`Ԃ!L/q qvhgjbVP8-Gx%/{LbUV-AAX|hv% My5k)uɑ'^Z@Zg gBj=XaQWűOּfۿ_]^-b$tEi| vV|'T ON,)ADGO2l} Q̎*2`0ʸZOqQhG~0S6dT,w4%+֔v d}lڤoK3#;IQ*zGXY^^쫶 Ŭ07al) /Yn@1џy<%H!&ndoS*[??# Slt;H82>ۭV03"WLtV-c!.s1XڹVt%b`Eht12. J]*kK= -{ۉ/}HktED$N!d ")mxqZ1:bUt h.)̜/\G0Avz3,hu,$X@BDC5վ|rhLXj"Zp޵lg]Σe$D"3I4'*V ^\?Pr9&lI We#K$m9 9Y6$!8/E3U˥/H} kFx"1uk㑉Jgf"֯ %8+-u!H`8#"ko!S W$|!ySI;][?tq,D iԢ72Zt9^no-"$ =rT pk#c缭3!(̛(UdrGaXYഔ} }UDߤf~BHqPvjF|tRЕ5s)VȔt]N'᠄Xp,]ӌ'$񫶐Jٴ_֓Qv&>9O p9]9wvAו:T& R-Ջie"oE`gJ +-k0ΕiEq>((QT8s_K-c@Tt,QtZz -pq;Se$ԆՂ;nA+`c.'{Ș5`Uq3ngM*kqTrxZf,us׀+_2@dJ.L@T ,w)CicCL wȦc a8*p;[x-tdػᰈkIUdgh5Bc:Gl:5Y:ExL`Ù Ef%[>T7If)d[K!e< :4He"7M&ܮceJ\?ƾWK(n )UȤ uX)Wsʏ%Tc=d+)k\rM#`MByNM<[{֮iO0)_,Sa.L1 @jamذ?ӫ؊LבDi!)5lX3Amie؃40i&6G:}OS YG oM͸1f5TѐK[ dNݧ*.>Z|(u;o\]i4 ٤0f$5ڬ{cŮIu.@rbҳ9/:`qad1Q6KJ Xi9~Iyd´g];*LlO 8kRF[JqGaV Hd4B !rIj*ZSM-˰1٧xyl ˉPV(*I,өbl%P(W]ȢkIETHc"6y9,QT [-0IuC72M-Q!%=_Dyܪ8$[R붵fDZw|梞Et*FIxDnTs"+-']ˏuv-E ?Mw֬y`'S,SÙҾo٫CUJN3o@\WWEG ؟;Jӭ UY?e)72Y:Ȩ ,+mQ1V6M_&tZki娓FGm}BB[J/Ʀ[-.C Lxa/fvHCJ4- "klO˒?MO5\b(Js.bL01$LX?צspS0DWgv4aYe^94N߼MO+ĵG4+Sv$5 L Ha9FCM|,}7ԤM m59M Aja8ޱaZNWLHZ aCF>HN3|?R3%zVsRӪ|l,ÚV*.D3QSOs8T.TSF,@.7 HW4dH9Dʳ&"\^GF#tИMK(3#>&?n'BTOu{I R=AqˌӤ9Z-2&l5µN}"ŀO11<,qܙ\UKEsG9JpmA7k6nRa{_ Z8h5~rZ&R9iκe^T=6GN36pJƨ?*Kf*=#ڈÊuC}'JPRguIX I$Hh8jcu:`Ja6Fd)znX!!6Tkc_rmVƹ`CDD2K;X|ߋ)RfXhzyalX;&K zI;er%IQlOHicn%X:C_DoH" U$ N\5w$inVS?y22)QhYu*dȜc1*AǢ̐1&ճqe-ۣt,Û#iڢXr:DɈ8#6M"&xeq OscTexi\#)_O5{qc=HK\nӰ LڠlqGSܲv[-yg9FklƬ> X1we2;=LH(O!]>0/\M}5қTw8.5 bnH. jA;-jAo΀T|ZVByNL5'Fb( TQA(}ϿMNEp)}ūqE|}0i{67 ,Oۛ6'DCe:`{$s`549Z_p\w^J,rQ&DP4vI!-#<_'D 8lq ]GM21'_B񤬩~#ba(0tq[̕8'S|RW-]3!(_WQإev$>Ⲱ$hK
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1