Shamrock Wins Second Race by 2 MN 26 S.

Challenger, With Freak Jib, Holds Lead Over Resolute

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920 - There was a fresh northwesterly breeze blowing at the rate of about eight miles an hour when the cup yachts cast off their moorings in Sandy Hook Bay shortly after ...

The most American of British Challengers

Valkyrie III was not owned exclusively by Lord Dunraven, as was Valkyrie II but by a syndicate composed of Lord Dunraven, Lord Lonsdale, Lord Wolverton and Capt. Harry McCalmont. She was designed by George L. Watson, professedly for light weather sailing, and was altogether a radical example.

The voyage of the Livonia

The voyage of the Livonia across the Atlantic was a very stormy one, and the weather, which for some days had been unusually severe for the time of year, culminated in a hurricane in the region so well known to sailors as "the roaring forties," where the Livonia was hove-to for thirty-eight hours.

Capt. Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but removed with his parents at an early age to Gourock on the Clyde. Here the famous skipper sailed his first race and began his career as a yachtsman, which resulted in the first 12 years of racing in an average of 10 winnings a year, all in small boats.
Capt. Barr during his career had charge of the Neptune, a Fife boat, in which he won 35 prizes out of 50 starts, all sailed in Scotch and Irish waters.

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.

There was no point at which Martyn Mackrill (b. 1962) consciously made a decision to become a marine painter. Born on the Isle of Wight where he is still resident, the son of a marine engineer in the Merchant Navy and a grandson of the owner of a fleet of trawlers, ...