THE AMERICAS CUP WILL STAY HERE.
AN EASY VICTORY WON BY THE PEERLESS MAYFLOWER-DECIDING THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE.

New York Tribune : Published: September 12, 1886
The America's cup will not go across the ocean this year, for the Mayflower won the second of the international races yesterday. The victory of the American boat was so great and so complete that the race was uninteresting.

Details of Resolute, Vanitie and Defiance

© 1914 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC : MAY 16, 1914 - COMPLEMENTING our article and drawings of May 2nd, giving the principal features of the three cup-defending yachts, we present in this issue excellent illustrations of the "Resolute" on her first trial spin, and also some interesting details of the hull and spar construction of the yachts.

The start

The start does not seem to have inspired many painters, perhaps because the schooner America was not shown to advantage, so here is a picture of the the castle of and the Cowes start line traditional of all the races of the Royal yacht Squadron.

In answer to Lipton’s challenge of 1929 the Americans designed four J-Class yachts as possible defenders. Enterprise, Whirlwind, Yankee and Weetamoe were launched within a month of each other; Weetamoe and Enterprise from the Herreshoff yard and Yankee and Whirlwind from Lawley & Son’s yard in Bristol.

Whirlwind, the second J, was the most revolutionary of the four.

RELIANCE the ultimate skimming dish

To meet the latest English creation, a new millionaires' syndicate had been formed in the New York Yacht Club as soon as Lipton's challenge was received and took upon itself the task of financing a ninety-foot, up-to-the-minute racing machine. This syndicate was composed of Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Rockefeller,...

Dick Brown was a New York and Sandy Hook pilot who sailed the schooner-yacht AMERICA to England in the summer of 1851, and was at her helm when she successfully raced for the trophy that was to become known as the America's Cup.
Pilots from ports like New York and Boston were a special breed. They sailed in small schooners and managed in all weather conditions to shepherd big ships into the harbor.

The Yacht Designer as Artist

Francis Herreshoff was as much an artist as his father was genius.

Lewis Francis Herreshoff (1890-1972) was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, near the waters of Narragansett Bay, an area long noted for its yachting activity.

Leon Alaric Shafer was a painter, etcher and illustrator best known for his maritime and military subjects. He contributed illustrations to books and to periodicals such as the New York Herald, and cover art for American Legion Monthly and The Literary Digest.