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)
SHAMROCK DISABLED, ENTERPRISE SAILS ON TO WIN THIRD RACENEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 17.-- Enterprise, defender of the America's Cup, swept on today to her third straight victory over Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger.
RANGER WINS FOURTH RACE IN ROW AND KEEPS AMERICA'S CUP IN U. S.
After Resolute and Vanitie, the third of the defenders for the 1914 challenge is the Defiance, built at Bath Iron Works for $63,000, from designs by George Owen. She was built for a syndicate of yachtsmen of which G. M. Pynchon is the manager and E. Walter Clark the treasurer.
There are 15 yachtsmen in this syndicate and as these members represent New York, Boston and Philadelphia, the yacht is called the Tri-City defender.
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith (18 January 1888 – 27 January 1989) was an English aviation pioneer and yachtsman. Sopwith was born in Kensington, London on 18 January 1888.
He was the eighth child and only son of Thomas Sopwith (a civil engineer) & his wife Lydia Gertrude née Messiter. He was educated at Cottesmore School in Hove and at Seafield Park engineering college in Hill Head.
Brian J.Jones is a highly accomplished and award winning Marine Artist. Specialising in both modern and historical yachting scenes. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Storming the Cowes Roads, 1930' sold at Christie's King Street 'Maritime Art' in 2008 for $17,314.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, on Nov. 7, 1913 to former Judge Charles H. English and his wife Montie Arbogast English, the American marine painter John Arbogast English was known as "Jack" to his friends. He has a first-hand knowledge of his subject matter that becomes apparent upon viewing his highly detailed and meticulously rendered paintings of sailing craft.
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