"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)
Copyright © The New York Times : Published: September 28, 1887
In the minds of very many people the question of the relative merits of the Volunteer and Thistle, as individuals, and the centerboard sloop and the cutter, as types, was emphatically set at rest yesterday afternoon, when the Volunteer crossed the finishing line so far ahead of the Thistle that the latter became an object for sympathy. The sloop apparently outsailed her from the start to the finish.
As often as the story of the cup is told, is related the good old tale of the famous dialogue of the queen with her signal-master, who, peering from the deck of the Victoria and Albert down The Solent, was asked by Her Majesty: "
- Say, signal-master, are the yachts in sight?
- Yes, may it please Your Majesty.
- Which is first?...
For the defense of the second Dunraven challenge, Boston, though its great designer Burgess was gone, entered the field valiantly and produced two boats of radical style, Jubilee and Pilgrim. Both were fin keels, a type that had been tried in smaller boats, but was as yet an unknown quantity in so large a craft as a ninety-footer.
When Lord Dunraven's yacht arrived in America, American yachtsmen believed they had in Valkyrie II a boat worthy of die best we could put against her. Like Thistle, she was preceded by stories of victories on the other side that showed her to be "a demon in light airs and a very devil in a blow."
In the 1890s, with the arrival of Ben Nicholsons three sons to the firm Camper and Nicholson, a final name change was made to Camper and Nicholsons. Middle son, Charles Ernest Nicholson, emerged as the consummate yacht designer, able to combine elegance with speed and seamanship.
Nicholson’s first design of note was the Redwing class, designed for the Bembridge Sailing Club as a single-hander, to replace the expensive half racers...
Architecte de formation, j’ai fait cependant mes premières armes dans la bande dessinée et l’illustration pour la jeunesse. Puis le naturel m’a rattrapé et j’ai commencé une longue série d’éclatés d’architecture, exécutés à l’encre et à l’aquarelle d’inspiration « Beaux-arts » XIXe siècle,...
Bruno Angius - in art "Bursus" - is born in Rome, Italy. After completing his engineering studies at the Naval Academy of Leghorn and at the University of Pisa, he spent many years as a Navy Officer on board ships and ashore.