AMERICA'S CUP "If we can fly today in the San Francisco Bay, this is because there have been "adventurers" like Walter Greene and Mike Birch.
To understand the future, we must know and respect the past."
Loïck PEYRON (Voiles et Voiliers July 2014)
Text of Conditions for Yacht Race
Resolute and Vanitie in elimination series to decide Defender of the America's Cup
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1920.
It is the intention of the New York Yacht Club to resume its elimination contests between Resolute and Vanitie next spring and not pick the defender of the America's Cup until after the series is ended.
Livonia Again Beaten - Sappho Wins EasilyThe fourth of the series of matches was fixed for the 21st on the early morning of which day the committee-boat Seth Low, with the judges on board, left the foot of Desbrosses street at 7h 30m a.m. and steaming down found the Columbia lying at anchor off Staten Island.
1895 America's Cup defenderDefender was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1895. It was Herreshoff's second victorious America's Cup defender design. She was a sloop with all-metal construction: steel, aluminum, and manganese bronze.
John Bryant Paine (1870-1951) is the second son of the seven children of Gen. Charles J. Paine. The large family lived in their big property in Weston. The Weston house had a schoolroom behind the grand staircase where the children did their lessons in the spring and fall. In the 1880s the older boys, Sumner and John, went to Mr. Hopkinson’s school in Boston before going on to Harvard.
William Umpleby Kirk was a pioneering photographer. He took one of the first photographs of a vessel in motion ever taken in Britain using a continuous shutter. These were pictures of Queen Victoria’s yacht Alberta steaming into Cowes at a speed of 10 knots and earned him a royal warrant.
DUNCAN, Edward, a water-colour painter, was born in London in 1803. He was articled to Robert Havell, the aquatint engraver, and was thus afforded frequent opportunities of studying, and occasionally of copying, the works of William Havell.
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