Final preparations

On August 11th, at 11.30 P.M., Shamrock II passed Sandy Hook, a little less than sixteen days out from the Clyde. She was promptly taken to Erie Basin, where all challengers since Genesta had refitted, and there received her racing spars and gear, which arrived by steamer August 4th.

1. UNDER OBSERVATION, JULY 6-17

The America's Cup Committee held a meeting on board the flagship Nourmahal on Sunday afternoon, July 6, attended by representatives of each syndicate. The committee announced that the four candidates would race in pairs over the America's Cup course, races to start at fifteen-minute intervals.

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George Owen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1877. His mother died when he was young. After this loss, Owen was drawn closer to family in Rhode Island. The Owen family was active in yachting and commissioned boats from both Edward Burgess, and Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island. In addition to many opportunities to race fast fine boats, Owen also began developing hobbies such as photography.

Nicolas Fox grew up in New York City and on Cape Cod. Coming from a sailing family, his greatest early memories are tooling around Stage Harbor in his O’Day Daysailor and getting to steer a Westsail 63′ from Edgartown to Hyannis. In Chatham, Mass,

Gerard B. Lambert, Sr. had an association with the America’s Cup that spanned the J Class years of the 1930’s and the beginning of the 12 Metre era in 1958.
In 1928 Lambert bought VANITIE, the unsuccessful Defender candidate of 1920, for the express purpose of converting her to the new J Class rule and using her as a trial horse for the four new American J Class yachts built for the 1930 Defender trials.