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)
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RAINBOW WINS AND EVENS SERIES WITH ENDEAVOUR; LOSER PROTESTS VICTORYNEWPORT, R.I, Sept. 22. -- With all the sail cloth on her bulging with power, Rainbow came on today in a never-say-die spirit to take the fourth America's Cup race by 1 minute and 15 seconds from the British challenger Endeavour.
In anticipation of Galatea's coming, Boston yachtsmen immediately “got busy” after the 1885 race, with a view to holding the laurels they had won. General Paine, one of the Puritan syndicate, feeling sure that Puritan could be improved upon, which feeling was shared by the yacht's designer, placed an order with Edward Burgess for a new sloop, somewhat larger than Puritan, of which he was to be the sole owner.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - MAY 21, 1870The N. Y. Herald thus describes the rival vessels:
All will remember the keel schooner Sappho, 274 tons New York Yacht Club measurement, owned by that thorough yachtman Mr. William Douglas. She is one of the finest, ablest, and fastest of all American or English yachts.
“Shamrock” was designed by William Fife (III) in 1908 as a potential challenger for the America’s Cup. The Americans refused the challenge but Lipton asked Fife to continue building (the vessel being built at Denny's).
In the last contest of 1903, Reliance marked the extreme limit that had been achieved in the development of the racing machine, and there had been already a swing in the other direction toward a saner and more healthy type of yacht.
The second boat built for the defense of the America's Cup in 1914 was for Alexander Smith Cochran, formerly the owner of the schooner Westward, which raced so successfully in English waters in 1910.
This boat has been designed by William Gardner, a New York naval architect with long experience both in the designing and construction of racing yachts.
« The Blind Genuis »The story of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company must start with John Brown Herreshoff. At the time of his birth, the Herreshoffs were living at Point Pleasant Farm on Poppasquash Neck. He showed a great deal of energy and ambition for a lad, having his own rope walk, a workshop and a foot lathe.
Michael Edward Ratsey comes from a shipbuilder family. His grandfather Lynn Ratsey built the cutter yacht Leopard in 1807. Her dimensions were, length on deck, 64 feet 4 inches; length of keel, 54 feet 3 inches; beam, 19 feet; depth, 11 feet; draft, 10 feet.
His father Michael Ratsey also marked the history of the America's Cup. He designed and built in 1838 the famous cutter Aurora who came close ...
Robert was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and grew up on the north shore of Boston spending much of his childhood at the ocean in Wells, Maine.
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