Two out of three races were decided upon for the international series, one over the inside course, one to windward and return outside Sandy Hook, and the third, if necessary, triangular, over an outside course. The date set for the first race was September 27th.

INVESTIGATION TO BEGIN

Committee Will Inquire Into Lord Dunraven's Charges To-day.

Dec. 27, 1895 - The investigation will be in the model room of the New-York Yacht Club this morning at 10 o'clock.

Boston faced up to the British threat

After Mr. George L. Watson, the leading yacht designer of Great Britain, had visited America, it was then reported that his forthcoming yacht would be of phenomenal speed, combining the best points of American as well as English racers.

Lord Dunraven says of the Thistle : "Thistle was built for the express purpose of sailing for the cup... She was built for the purpose and was the best thing we could turn out."
The money for building the new boat was subscribed by Messrs. John Clark, Commodore of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, William Clark, Andrew Coates, William Coates, James Coates, George Coates, J. Hilliard, James Bell, Vice-Commodore of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club, and William Bell.

The Atlantic is a wooden sloop built in the Mumm yard in Brooklyn for a syndicate of members of the Atlantic Yacht Club. She was launched on May 1, 1886.

Its dimensions are 95 feet 7 inches overall length, 84 feet waterline, 23 feet 2 inches beam, bilge depth of 10 feet 6 inches and draft 8 feet 6 inches tall.

In modelling Livonia, Michael Ratsey took his inspiration form the lines of Sappho. The sails of Livonia were cut and assembled from American cotton. Before leaving for the United States, the challenger was beaten by Egeria and by Aline, the Prince of Wales' yacht.
In Livonia could be seen the verification of the old saying that imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Clinton Hoadley Crane had a somewhat unusual career. Beginning as an amateur naval architect, designing for himself and his friends and relations, he then established a yacht-design firm that he operated for around 12 years, and then left the profession to run the family mining business full-time. He came back 10 years later to his passion of yacht design; part-time and as an amateur.
He was as interested in motor racers as he was in sailboats, ...

A significant landscape painter of the second generation of Hudson River School painters, Samuel Colman traveled widely and eventually went far beyond the Hudson River for subject matter. He created many large canvases of European, United States, Canadian, and Mexican subjects, especially scenes along the Hudson River and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Michael Beddows was born in England in 1931, educated at Malvern College in Worcestershire, and had careers in both illustration and Architectural draftsmanship before turning full time to painting. He is most well known for his depictions of the America’s Cup races, yachting’s most prestigious races. Mr. Beddows died in Britain in 2005.