CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE RACES FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP, 1930

SECOND CUP RACE CALLED OFF WHEN TIME EXPIRES

Challenger is outsailed from start

SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1920 - Resolute took the lead in yesterday's race immediately after the starting signal and was never ...

Come back of George Lennox Watson

For this second boat, which was named Shamrock II, Lipton went to George Lennox Watson for the design. Watson was probably the foremost designer in England at that time, if that adjective can be applied to any one man in a profession. His cutter Britannia was one of the most wonderful racing yachts ever turned out.

America's owners entered the yacht for the cup race before realising that an owner of an English yacht had responded to the challenge placed by Commodore John Cox Stevens in the RYS Clubhouse. The man was RYS Member Robert Stephenson, the yacht was Titania and the race - more a match race of the modern style of The America's Cup competition - took place a week after the more famous cup race.

August 19, 1895 : The Run Required 21 Days 9 Hours and 80 Minutes, Average 129 Miles Per Day.

A reporter for The New-York Times boarded Valkyrie before she came in anchor, and the story of her trip across was gathered from talks with Capts. Cranfield and Sycamore, and from the log kept by the Navigating Officer, James Harrison.

The  "Wizard of Bristol"

Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938), is a descendant of Frederick Herreshoff, a Prussian engineer who settled in Rhode Island in 1790, marrying Sarah Brown, daughter of John Brown, the leading shipbuilder in that state. Among their children was Frederick, born in 1808, ...

Morris "Rosy" Rosenfeld was born February 16, 1885 in Budapest, Hungary and will be nationalized American July 28, 1904 in Brooklyn, New York. Morris originally wanted to be an artist, but his parents wanted him to be a doctor. According to Everett B. Morris from the commentary in Under Full Sail, "He left school at thirteen to do a man's work in a man's world, armed only with the clumsy Gundlach 4x5 plate camera bought with his five-dollar prize ...

Harold Wyllie (1880-1973) was the eldest son of William Lionel Wyllie. He studied under his father and shared his fascination with naval history.