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.

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NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 13.-- Enterprise, the yacht sailed by Harold Vanderbilt, rode triumphant over thirty miles this afternoon and defeated Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in the first race of the America's Cup series.

PROTEST SUSTAINED; VALKYRIE DISQUALIFIED

All Efforts to Have the Race Called Off Failed.

Sept. 12, 1895 - The protest of C. Oliver Iselin against the Valkyrie was sustained by the Regatta Committee, and the race sailed on Tuesday, ...

First Canadian challenger for America's Cup 1876

Countess of Dufferin, was the last of the challenging schooners. Major Charles Gifford, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club of Toronto, who was the head of a syndicate or stock company with John Bell, Murray Geddes and brothers Fred and Allan Lucas, formed to build the Countess of Dufferin.

For the first time in the history of the Cup, a boat was built specially for the defense of the cup, a sloop chirped 22.10 m long and 6.55 m of midship nicknamed Pocahontas.

But he will be severely beaten in the selection tests and that's Mischief will have the honor of défending the Cup.

William Butler Duncan Jr., known as Butler Duncan, was born in New York in 1853.
His father, William Butler Duncan was from Scotland, and completed his college education in this country. He became a banker in New York City and then President and Chairman of the Board of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company from 1874 until his death in 1912.

Henry Sargeant was a British visual artist who was born in 1798. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Pair of Works: The First Race for the America's Cup' sold at Bonhams New York 'Important Maritime Paintings' in 2014 for $37,500. The artist died in 1868.

Nicholas Matthews Condy, or Nicholas Condy the Younger (1816 – 20 May 1851) was a British maritime painter. He was born in Union Street, Plymouth in 1816 to Nicholas Condy (1793–1857) and Ann Trevanion Condy (née Pyle; 1792–1860). His father was a painter of landscapes, and they are often confused for each other.