Document No 1946: Cup defender Defiance | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1920 DATE : 11 May 1914 COURSE : 0 DESCRIPTION SITE : Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger. NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP :The third boat to defend the Cup in 1914 (with Resolute and Vanitie) is for a syndicate headed by Mr. George M. Pynchon, owner of the 65-footer Istalena, which he raced so successfully for a number of years, and E. Walter Clark of Philadelphia, owner of the schooner Irolita, formerly the Queen. She is being turned out by a Boston designer, George
Owen, and is building at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. George Owen is probably the best known of the Boston naval architects, and has done a lot toward developing the type of racing boat that has grown up under the Universal rule of measurement. His first Dorello was a wonderful boat, which brought her designer into national prominence, and since then his Dorello II., many successful Class P boats, and others have stamped him as one of the foremost of the younger generation of naval architects. He has, so far, not had any experience in a large racing sloop, such as a 75-footer, the largest racing boat of that rig that he has yet designed being Dorello II,, 48 feet on the water line and 73 feet overall. Autorisation en cours |
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BATEAUX : DEFIANCE | |||||||||||||||
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