Wassersport 1885 (Water Sport) – No. 3, January 15, 1885 (Interactive Edition‪)‬

On January 15, 1885 the Berlin weekly Wassersport appeared for the third time in its third year. This interactive edition brings you the original issue exactly as it was printed — every page, every engraving — with a complete English translation one tap away.

Tap the EN button on any article to read the English translation of what is printed on that page. Turn the page and continue with the next part. After the original issue follows the complete English edition, newly typeset in the layout of 1885.

In this issue:
• The Pleasure Boat and its Practical Construction — the start of a series on building your own boat: clinker, carvel and diagonal planking, the building trestle, the laying-off plan and the moulds, with six engravings
• England’s Regattas, 1884 — with the fold-out supplement map “The Coasts of Great Britain, with the principal yachting stations”, here with English place names
• On the Reform of the Berlin Time-Allowance Method, letters on the medium type, and a mocking open letter to “Mr. Tecaptus in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land”
• Rowing fixtures for 1885, rowing and sailing news from Germany, England and America
• The launch of the ironclad Oldenburg and “A Cheer for the German Navy!”
• Mr. Auerbach’s lecture on swimming, skating races in Hamburg and Munich, the feuilleton “Among the Yakuts and Pecherais”
• Two pages of period advertisements: boatbuilders, sailmakers, outfitters

Best experienced on iPad — turn it sideways to see two pages side by side, just like the printed magazine.

Part of the Wassersport 1885 series: one issue every week, exactly as it appeared — translated in full.