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James McFerran

Best known today as a contributor to a classic yachting volume, this little-documented writer is linked to late 19th-century sailing literature. The surviving public record is sparse, which gives his work an old-library, rediscovered feel.

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Yachting, Vol. 2

Yachting, Vol. 2

by G. L. Blake, Marquis of Frederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin and Ava, James McFerran, T. B. Middleton, R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett

About the author

James McFerran is a historical author whose name appears on Yachting, Vol. 2, a volume in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes and now available through Project Gutenberg. Public catalog records identify him as one of several contributors to that book, which focuses on yachts, yacht racing, and the culture of sailing.

Reliable biographical detail about him is limited in the sources readily available online. One cataloged record associates him with the years 1828–1907, but beyond that, clear information about his life, career, and background is hard to confirm, so it is best to treat him as a lightly documented figure in classic sporting literature.

For listeners and readers, McFerran's appeal is less about a well-known personal story and more about the world his writing helps preserve: an era when yachting was presented as both a technical pursuit and a gentlemanly pastime.