"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 17, 1885
There was hardly any swell upon the ocean yesterday morning, but its surface was crisp with the ruffles of a fresh northwest wind when the judges’ boat arrived at the Scotland Lightship.
As more than a year was to intervene between the conclusion of the negotiations and the sailing of the races, the American public held great expectations as to the character of the yachts that should be built to compete.
Since the introduction of bronze and other expensive metals in the building of cup defenders, only the richest could afford to order them.
The new sloop Atlantic, built as a candidate for cup-defense honors by a syndicate of Atlantic Yacht Club members, consisting of Messrs. Latham A. Fish, J. Rogers Maxwell, William Ziegler, Newbury D. Lawton, and others.
It may be recorded here that Atlantic did not possess speed enough to make her a serious opponent to Mayflower.
An English member of the New York Yacht Club, Joseph R. Busk, owned Mischief. He lived near Newport, but he was not a naturalised American in 1881. However, it was his yacht that would be selected after elimination trials as the defender of the America's Cup.
The important nationality clause, so important to the New York Yacht Club in the coming years was very circumvented early on…
Gerard B. Lambert, Sr. had an association with the America’s Cup that spanned the J Class years of the 1930’s and the beginning of the 12 Metre era in 1958.
In 1928 Lambert bought VANITIE, the unsuccessful Defender candidate of 1920, for the express purpose of converting her to the new J Class rule and using her as a trial horse for the four new American J Class yachts built for the 1930 Defender trials.
An important American impressionist, Reynolds Beal was encouraged early on by his younger brother, noted artist Gifford Beal, to study art abroad. Once Reynolds completed his education from Cornell University in naval architecture, and being from a rather wealthy family, he struck out for Europe, where he informally viewed as much art as he could, primarily in Madrid...
Rowland John Robb Langmaid R.A. (1 December 1897 – 11 February 1956) was a British Seaman, engraver, artist and war artist.
Langmaid was born in to a Navy family in Vancouver and he studied maritime art with William Lionel Wyllie.