"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)
The magnificent race on Wednesday between the Columbia and the Livonia had a very enlivening effect upon the series of matches for the Queen's Cup, as previously the Livonia was rather underrated, and everybody, expected to see a clean walk-over.
FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1920 - Yesterday's international yacht race victory will go officially to Shamrock's credit.
America's owners entered the yacht for the cup race before realising that an owner of an English yacht had responded to the challenge placed by Commodore John Cox Stevens in the RYS Clubhouse. The man was RYS Member Robert Stephenson, the yacht was Titania and the race - more a match race of the modern style of The America's Cup competition - took place a week after the more famous cup race.
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.
David Monteiro is a native of Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a child, he showed an aptitude for drawing and creativity that became more evident throughout his adolescent years.
David continued his education at Massachusetts College of Art where he graduated with a Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts.
Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins (1847-1922) is recognized as one of the leading American maritime photographers.
He had roots in Massachusetts, but he was born on January 9, 1847 far from blue water in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The son of an influential Unitarian minister, Stebbins became fascinated with the sea at an early age and made at least one ocean voyage to South America as a passenger in a sailing vessel.