SIR THOMAS LIPTON lost no time in announcing his plans for his second attempt to "lift the cup".
Fife having failed with Shamrock I to make possible the realization of Sir Thomas' high ambition was to be put aside, and George Lennox Watson, Americans learned through the press, would be prevailed on, it was hoped, to accept a commission to design the second challenger.

On May 20, 1929, in the rooms of the Broad Street Club, the America's Cup Committee of the N.Y.Y.C. had met to discuss a challenge recently received from the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, acting on behalf of Sir Thomas J. Lipton for a series of races to be held in September, 1930, for The America's Cup. Sixteen years had passed since the receipt of the last challenge, nine since the last series of races, postponed for six years on account of the Great War.

Challenger of America's Cup 1937, outsailed by the "Super J" Ranger

First challenger since the second challenge of the America's Cup in 1871 to be launched more one year before the race, her owner, TOM Sopwith thought to be better prepared especially as it has the exceptional training partner Endeavour I (1934) who failed to win the Cup in 1934 against Rainbow.

Genesta was a typical English cutter of the period, long, narrow, very deep, with low bilges and wall sides, a straight stem, a high overhang aft, long bowsprit, short mast, and tall topmast.
Length overall 96 feet 5 inches; length on water-line 81 feet 7 1/2 inches; beam 15 feet; draft 13 feet 6 inches; depth of hold 11 feet 9 inches; length of mast from deck to hounds 52 feet; topmast 44 feet 6 inches; boom 70 feet; gaff 44 feet; ...

“Shamrock” was designed by William Fife (III) in 1908 as a potential challenger for the America’s Cup. The Americans refused the challenge but Lipton asked Fife to continue building at shipyard of William Denny & Brothers in Dumbarton..
Shamrock was built under the “International Rule” used in England and the other European yachting countries while the United States adopted the “Universal Rule”

Andrew Jackson Comstock was one of several Comstock brothers from New London who were accomplished racing yacht masters.

Comstock was skipper of the racing schooner Columbia, which defended during the 1871 America’s Cup challenge and also skipper of the Magic, the successful defender of the 1870 Cup.

LITTLEWOOD Brian (U.K./St. Thomas) b. London, England. 1934. Educated at University College School, Hampstead, Brian learned architectural drawing as an apprentice with a City firm of surveyors. He attended art classes in 1972 and exhibited his work at local art shows.

Julian O. Davidson was an American artist and illustrator specializing in maritime and naval subjects, painted in formats ranging from periodical and children's book illustrations to mural-sized canvases. An adventurous spirit who loved the ocean, after receiving a boarding school education and a brief apprenticeship at his father's civil engineering firm, ...