The third boat to defend the Cup in 1914 (with Resolute and Vanitie) is for a syndicate headed by Mr. George M. Pynchon, owner of the 65-footer Istalena, which he raced so successfully for a number of years, and E. Walter Clark of Philadelphia, owner of the schooner Irolita, formerly the Queen. She is being turned out by a Boston designer, George Owen, and is building at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. George Owen is probably the best known of the Boston naval architects, and has done a lot toward developing the type of racing boat that has grown up under the Universal rule of measurement. His first Dorello was a wonderful boat, which brought her designer into national prominence, and since then his Dorello II., many successful Class P boats, and others have stamped him as one of the foremost of the younger generation of naval architects. He has, so far, not had any experience in a large racing sloop, such as a 75-footer, the largest racing boat of that rig that he has yet designed being Dorello II,, 48 feet on the water line and 73 feet overall.
This new boat has been named Defiance.