This page has been validated.
THE HISTORY OF YACHTING
205
Commodore Taylor built and owned four yachts named the Cumberland. One, No. IV., was fitted with five sliding keels. A portrait of her model is
here given. In 1795 he also built a yacht named the Columbus, fitted with three sliding keels. Why this useful invention was abandoned, except to be replaced by the more convenient centre-board, is difficult to understand.
