Throughout the first few decades following the birth of dinghy racing, early developments had little to do with what we would now recognise as hulls that were 'fast by design', as any changes were mainly incremental, small evolutionary steps away from the working boats of a particular area. If he but knew, Coleridge could have been describing the development of the domestic racing dinghy 150 years away into the future. As well as telling us in his classic 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner of how his becalmed boat was "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean", Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously also told us that if we could only learn from history, what lessons it might teach us.
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