AMERICA'S CUP "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)
Shamrock Wins Second Race by 2 MN 26 S.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920 - There was a fresh northwesterly breeze blowing at the rate of about eight miles an hour when the cup yachts cast off their moorings in Sandy Hook Bay shortly after ...
Souvenir. 1893 Contest for America's CupDuring my research of plans, specifications or racing events... on the America's Cup, I discovered a booklet of presentation of the race which contains much interesting information.
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Gallery "Sir Thomas Lipton"Only two photos of the races, unfortunately, and some photos not easy to classify.
Each thumbnail presented here contains a link to the original photo on the Mitchell Library' s website.
In the third race of the 1934 challenge RAINBOW was down by two races and behind in the third when C. Sherman Hoyt took the helm. This was the closest that the N.Y.Y.C. would come to losing its treasured cup until 1983.
Hoyt was known for taking the helm in light weather because of his uncanny ability to note slight wind changes, and this time was no exception.
William Umpleby Kirk was a pioneering photographer. He took one of the first photographs of a vessel in motion ever taken in Britain using a continuous shutter. These were pictures of Queen Victoria’s yacht Alberta steaming into Cowes at a speed of 10 knots and earned him a royal warrant.
Chandler Hovey was a competitor and Corinthian yachtsman in the truest sense. He not only was involved in several defenses of the America's Cup — spanning a period of 34 years — he possessed unequaled enthusiasm as an ambassador for the sport of sailing.
His first involvement in the America's Cup was in 1930 as manager and afterguard member of the Yankee syndicate.
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