Few photos for this edition of 1937. Perhaps because of the crisis, Ranger has not had the success he deserved, whether in the selection trials than for the Cup matches or in regattas after the Cup.

Two main sources for 1937 photos : The Mariners' Museum with the Edwin Levick collection and the Rosenfeld Collection.

The first race

The first race was to have been sailed on November 8th, but light wind made a postponement necessary. Both Gracie and Mischief were on hand, a claim of the right to defend the cup being made for each. The committee made its choice of Mischief that day.

THE ATALANTA BADLY BEATEN.

The first race of the America's cup resulted in a decisive defeat of the Atalanta. Both the Gracie and the Mischief beat her badly, the former 31m 17¼s, time allowance (7:41) deducted, and the latter 23m 30¼s. In fact, before one-quarter of the course has been sailed over the Atalanta was a hopelessly...

First J-Class yacht to be commissioned and built in the UK

Towards the end of 1929, Lipton issued his fifth and final challenge for the Cup (he was busy planning his sixth when he died). In the negotiations that followed as they always do when someone lays a challenge, Lipton agreed to build his yacht to the American Universal Rule, and that the yacht would be of the J Class.

The second boat built for the defense of the America's Cup in 1914 was for Alexander Smith Cochran, formerly the owner of the schooner Westward, which raced so successfully in English waters in 1910.

This boat has been designed by William Gardner, a New York naval architect with long experience both in the designing and construction of racing yachts.

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, ...

Who is this genius?

And what his training that so peculiarly fitted him for his high estate? A Scotchman by birth, a sailor by nature, a grocer by early training, and navigator and helmsman of imperishable fame by dint of indomitable will, unequaled skill, infallible judgment, and an irrepressible love of boats and all that pertains to them.

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.