RELIANCE JUST MISSES FINISHING ON TIME

Cup Yacht Race Fails to be Decisive by Six Minutes. Shamrock III, Outsailed in Light Winds, Drops Far Astern of the Defender

Aug. 28, 1903 - The light winds that prevailed yesterday about Sandy Hook and off the Jersey coast were not strong enough to drive Reliance and...

VIGILANT WON BY FORTY SECONDS. THE CUP CAN BE PUT BACK IN THE SAFE

Copyright © The New York Times - Published October 13, 1893
- That there would be a wet sheet and a flowing sea and wind enough to bend the “gallant mast,” nobody familiar with the sea doubted yesterday morning on the way down to the Sandy Hook Lightship.

Arthur Knapp, Jr., the oldest child of Arthur and May (Dalton) Knapp, was born on January 5, 1907, in Bayside, Queens, New York.
He learned to sail with his father and in 1916 was given his first boat, a Butterfly Class catboat named FLUTTERBY. Two years later, the young Knapp moved up to a bigger craft, a 22-foot Star Class keelboat. The Star boat was the beginning of what Mr. Knapp once described as his extended "love affair" with the class.

Peintre surréaliste narratif.

MICHAUX, né en Belgique à Charleroi en 1937, peint depuis qu'il sait tenir un pinceau. A 4 ans, il dessine des camions, à 12 ans, il peint sa première toile qui se trouve toujours dans son atelier.

George Lennox Watson was born in Glasgow in the same year in which the schooner America was built and raced; his father, Dr. Watson, was a noted physician, his mother was a Miss Burstall, daughter of Timothy Burstall, an inventor, and a contemporary of George Stevenson, builder of the locomotive Rocket, and engaged in similar work.
At the age of sixteen, Mr. Watson, whose tastes as a young boy inclined ..