«Si on arrive à voler aujourd'hui dans la baie de San Francisco, c'est parce qu'il y a eu des "aventuriers" comme Walter Greene ou Mike Birch.
Pour bien voir l'avenir, il faut connaître et respecter le passé.»
Loïck PEYRON (Voiles et Voiliers Juillet 2014)
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Sept. 29, 1901 - Columbia defeated Shamrock yesterday in the first of the races for the America's Cup in the finest light-weather contest ...
Cowes, Friday Evening, Aug 22,1851.
The day that has been looked forward to here with so much anxiety during the present week, as pregnant with the most important results to the fame of the British Royal Yacht Squadron, has at length arrived, and a few hours will soon set at rest the many thousand conjectures as to whether the Royal Yacht Squadron is still Invincible, or whether that honoris henceforth to rest with our transatlantic brethren.
En réponse au challenge de 1929 de Sir Thomas Lipton, les Américains ont conçu quatre Classe J en tant que possibles défenseurs. Enterprise, Whirlwind, Yankee et Weetamoe ont été lancés dans l'intervalle d'un mois; Weetamoe et Enterprise au chantier Herreshoff et Yankee et Whirlwind au chantier Lawley & Son à Bristol.
Whirlwind, le second J, était le plus révolutionnaire des quatre.
Né le 13 Octobre, 1867 à New York, Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield a grandi à Marblehead, Massachusetts, dans la riche famille Crowninshield qui entretenait des liens de longue date avec la mer. Le domaine familial Crowninshield House a été construit par son père en 1870. Son père était Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1837-1892) ...
William Formby Halsall was a marine painter based in Massachusetts. Born in England, his family settled in Boston when he was young. Halsall worked as a sailor for seven years until 1859. In 1860 he began studying fresco painting with William E. Norton, a marine artist and contemporary of his in Boston who was also a former sailor.
Stephen Renard was born in Huddersfield in 1947. Although he was interested in art, and clearly gifted artistically from an early age, he chose to go to teachers training college at Liverpool University, concentrating on the sciences. After an initial career as a teacher, he became a professional portrait artist and supplemented his income as an illustrator of children's comics.