Date from Detroit,
Catalogue F (1899).
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05618.
Note that
this is not America's rig as that with which she won the £100 Cup in 1851:
Donald McKay and Edward Burgess refitted her in 1875 and 1885 respectively. By
1887, the rake in her masts was reduced, all her spars were lengthened, she
featured a lead keel and carried two extra headsails and a fore gaff topsail. An
enlarged rig and modernised build would have kept the ageing America competitive
in the light yankee airs.
Date: August 1891
NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :