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.
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VIGILANT WON BY FORTY SECONDS. THE CUP CAN BE PUT BACK IN THE SAFE
Copyright © The New York Times - Published October 13, 1893
- That there would be a wet sheet and a flowing sea and wind enough to bend the “gallant mast,” nobody familiar with the sea doubted yesterday morning on the way down to the Sandy Hook Lightship.
Second success for Harold S. Vanderbilt and William Starling Burgess after Enterprise in 1930After its success in 1930 with Enterprise, Harold S. Vanderbilt created a new syndicate to confront his English "colleague" of aviation, TOM Sopwith. He turned to William Starling Burgess to design and it is the Herreshoff yard ...
Andrew Jackson Comstock was one of several Comstock brothers from New London who were accomplished racing yacht masters.
Comstock was skipper of the racing schooner Columbia, which defended during the 1871 America’s Cup challenge and also skipper of the Magic, the successful defender of the 1870 Cup.
When the New York Yacht Club was arranging for the defense of the America's Cup, Alexander Smith Cochran was asked if he would join the syndicate to build the Herreshoff boat.
He asked for a few hours to think it over, and then said:
"I have decided not to join your syndicate. If, however, you would like to have a second yacht built for the defense of the America's Cup I will build that yacht."
Jerome Howes's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $216 USD to $3,220 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is $3,220 USD for Catboats off Nantucket, sold at Eldred's Auction and Appraisal Services in 2012.
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