The origin of yacht harbor

Edit date: December 28, 2008

Editor: guangzhou hengqiao Marine engineering co., LTD

    The traditional Chinese coastal city's location is not directly facing the ocean, such as guangzhou, Shanghai, tianjin, nanjing, etc are all, in the long river to the sea, today to the sea port cities such as Hong Kong, macau, Qingdao, dalian, yantai, etc are all big sailing times developed by foreigners, thus it can be seen on the traditional Chinese concept of ocean away, yacht is purely a product of the western great maritime era. Presumably everybody agrees: want to make design of facilities of a good houseboat, must want to understand the culture that houseboat place originates deeply above all and tradition. Here only briefly describes the origin of western yacht culture, the details, still waiting for you to explore one by one.

    In the early 17th century, the Dutch navy built a small, light, fast sailing boat to hunt pirates. The Dutch called it "jacht", which means "hunt" in English. Later, this kind of boat was gradually favored by wealthy Dutch businessmen and developed into private recreation and sports. When king Charles ii of England was exiled to Holland, he fell in love with the sport of sailing. He especially loved these small, high-speed sailing ships, so in 1660 he chose to take a jaccht called "HMY Mary" (" Mary ") back to England to take the throne. Mary became the first royal yacht in the world. During his reign, he successively ordered the construction of 24 royal yachts. Since then, the popularity of yachts has been flourishing, and yachts have become the fashion choice of British dignitaries. Yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht yacht Therefore, the traditional yacht culture to wind sailing for business, deep learning noble majestic royal spirit.

    By the 18th century, the custom of leisure sailing was becoming more and more popular among the rich in the west. In the future, only the port for cargo and fishing will have a kind of noble ship -- "yacht". These sailing rich people gathered in social clubs and formed "yacht clubs". Some of the clubs were even named "royal yacht clubs" by the royal family to encourage sailing. Of course, expensive "yachts" are not suitable to be moored with fishing boats or freighters, so in the early 20th century, the "marina" was born for the purpose of mooring yachts.