Albert Strange
Albert Strange (1855–1917) was an artist and yacht designer. He was the headmaster of the Scarborough School of Art.[1] With George Holmes, he was a mainstay of the Humber Yawl Club which developed the use of sailing canoes with a yawl rig.[2] Strange produced many designs for such boats, both for himself and other members.[2] They were light craft which would cope well with being beached on the mud flats of the Humber Estuary or being shipped abroad as deck cargo but they had cabins which enabled them to be used for long voyages of a month or so.[2]
Early life and education
He was born in 1855, growing up in Gravesend where he learnt to sail with a fisherman who helped him convert a peter boat for cruising around the Thames Estuary.[3] He studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Leicester College of Arts and Crafts, completing his education in 1878.[3] He then taught art in Liverpool for three years, where he married.[3] Finally, he took a job as the headmaster of the new Scarborough School of Art — a position which he held for 35 years until his death.[3]
Designs
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Plans for the Otter, designed in 1898 for a member of the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club to sail on the lower Saint Lawrence.[1]
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Sailing rig for the Otter
- ^ Henry Coleman Folkard (1906), Sailing boats from around the world, pp. 79–81
References
- ↑ John Leather (1990), Albert Strange: Yacht Designer and Artist 1855–1917, ISBN 0946270732
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John Lowerson (1995), Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914, Manchester University Press, p. 53, ISBN 9780719046513
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Thad Danielson (2010), "The Small Yachts of Albert Strange", The Ash Breeze, Journal of the Traditional Small Craft Association, vol. 31 (2)