Won the Second Cup Race by 47 Seconds, after Fouling the Defender

Regatta Committee Will Consider the Protest To-day and Decide Who Is to Blame for the Accident

Sept. 10, 1895 - The sea was as smooth as glass outside Sandy Hook, ...

ENDEAVOUR WINS FIRST RACE, A TEST OF MEN AND YACHTS; LEADS BY 2' 09"

NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 17. - Endeavour won. The British yachtsman, T. O. M. Sopwith, aviator and amateur helmsman, sent his blue hulled craft around the course today 2mn 9s faster than Harold S. Vanderbilt could drive the Rainbow.

The twelfth defender of the America's Cup

Reliance has been designed for the twelfth edition of the America's Cup for race against the third challenger of Sir Thomas Lipton. She was the fourth defender from the famous designer Nat Herreshoff, and reportedly the largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built. Reliance was built at Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for...

1886

Mayflower was the second defender designed by Edward Burgess for the General Paine. She was built at George Lawley's yard at City Point that winter and was launched on May 6th. During its first trials, Puritan (1885) defeated it easily.

The  "Wizard of Bristol"

Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938), is a descendant of Frederick Herreshoff, a Prussian engineer who settled in Rhode Island in 1790, marrying Sarah Brown, daughter of John Brown, the leading shipbuilder in that state. Among their children was Frederick, born in 1808, ...

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.

William Gay Yorke's paintings of ships evolved naturally enough from a combination of artistic talent and an early life spent around sailing vessels as a shipwright, painting in his spare time. In his early thirties, he was successful enough as a painter of ships to give up his trade and paint full-time.