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)
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Category: ENTERPRISE
First American defender of the J Class on 1930W. Starling Burgess was requested to design and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company to build the boat. Enterprise's lead keel was cast on October 5, 1929. She was in frame by February 1, 1930, plated by March 25, and decked by April 3.
Enterprise was launched on April 14, christened by Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, her sponsor, and assisted by Governor Case of Rhode Island.
Just as the Enterprise's stern projected beyond the open doors of the south shop, the fog burned off and the sun shone brightly — an auspicious omen! Ten minutes later she was afloat and clear of the railway. Two hours earlier Shamrock V had been sent down the ways at Gosport, England.
Her bronze underbody was smooth and highly polished, a pleasing contrast to the white topsides. The lead keel (where it projected below the plating) and the wooden rudder, except for the knife-edge bronze plating forming its after end, were also painted white. The hull plates were flush at vertical intersections, held together by butt straps riveted from the inside, and lapped at horizontal intersections. In order to save the weight of liners, amounting to some 1,500 pounds, each plate was joggled back to the frame where the overlap with the adjoining plate ended. This gave the appearance on the outboard side of a series of parallel strips of metal about 3 inches wide running fore and aft the entire length of the boat — the subject of much comment throughout the season.
Everyone was much impressed with the clean appearance of Enterprise's deck. She had no outer rail, the white topsides being rounded where they blended into white waterways, a foot wide and encircling a raised white pine deck. There were but four openings in this deck, all on the centre line, a round sail hatch forward of the mast, a skylight and companionway hatch aft of it, and a small round navigator's cockpit forward of the binnacle. The forward end of the skylight hatch formed a cockpit for the tween decks man, about whom more anon. 
There were two binnacles on deck, a steering binnacle forward of the wheel and a smaller one for the navigator in front of his cockpit. Two small capstans were visible forward and two aft for spinnaker and main boom guys and two larger ones on the centre line amidships for the jib topsail sheets. Duralumin pipe rails about 3 inches high for foot and hand grips, and a few necessary cleats and staples completed the inventory of deck fittings.
Below, the deck was made of white pine slats 3 inches wide, hollowed underneath, and 1 inch apart. This arrangement proved most satisfactory. It saved weight, gave an excellent footing, prevented any trouble from expansion of the wood, and insured adequate ventilation for the bilge. On this deck were three sail lockers, one forward on the port side and one on each side amidships, and aft two settees and a small swinging table intended for the afterguard's lunch. Numerous winches, secured to the frames on either side, were within easy reach. There were no partitions or bulk-heads, the interior of the boat giving the impression of a great hollow shell. It proved to be particularly resonant. Beating to windward in a head sea the noise of the waves crashing against the bows was terrific.
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LORD DUNRAVEN left Valkyrie II at New York for the winter of 1893-94 but did not race her in American waters the next season, as he had intended doing. His eyes were still turned toward the Cup, and in the autumn of 1894 he opened correspondence looking to another challenge.
THE MADELEINE'S VICTORYAfter the disappointing showing made by his boat in the Brenton Reef race. Major Gifford, her managing owner, asked for a postponement to give him time to get some new light sails made, and it was finally arranged to start the first race, which was to be over the regular New York Yacht Club inside course, on August 11th.
THE YACHTS REMEASURED.When the yachts came home after the first race, it was known to none but the regatta and cup committees of the New York Yacht Club that Lord Dunraven had made a charge bearing an imputation of fraud, to Mr. Latham A. Fish, the New York Yacht Club member sailing on Valkyrie III...
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Souvenir. 1893 Contest for America's CupThe following results are extracted from booklet of presentation of the race "Souvenir. Contest for 1893 America's Cup" published by Thomas Manning.
It contains publicity on page 2 for Champagne LOUIS ROEDERER that I reproduce here for my friend Christian of Domaines OTT*.
Sir Thomas J. Lipton's interest in sailing began at the age of fourteen when he talked his parents into letting him sail from his native Scotland to New York.
Five years later, he returned to Scotland with the equivalent of $500 and a lot of ideas on how to expand his family grocery store. Within a few years, he had 500 shops all over Great Britain and was well on his way to accumulating ...
I was born and raised in Yonkers, NY, a short distance from the Hudson River. In 1950, my parents took me for a day trip on the day liner Alexander Hamilton, a classic vintage side wheeler. I was so mesmerized and in awe of the great ship that I did not want the trip to end. So began my love affair with the sea and vintage vessels.
Montague Dawson Is widely considered the best known sea painter of the 20th Century, and one of the most skilled craftsman in the direct line of English marine artists. He is noted for his unerringly beautiful ships, the weight and surging power of his waves and the scudding grace of his skies.
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