Photographs of start of Resolute and Shamrock made for The Evening World from Curtiss Airplane, Pilot Olson, at altitude of 250 feet. The pictures were taken by Bide Martin and were delivered within ninety minutes.
Crowds greeted the arrival of The Evening World airplane at Centre and Worth streets to-day, when It brought photographs of the start of the International Yacht Race, taken at Ambrose Channel just as the boats crossed the line.

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First American defender of the J Class on 1930

W. Starling Burgess was requested to design and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company to build the boat. Enterprise's lead keel was cast on October 5, 1929. She was in frame by February 1, 1930, plated by March 25, and decked by April 3.

For the defense of the second Dunraven challenge, Boston, though its great designer Burgess was gone, entered the field valiantly and produced two boats of radical style, Jubilee and Pilgrim. Both were fin keels, a type that had been tried in smaller boats, but was as yet an unknown quantity in so large a craft as a ninety-footer.

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, ...

Willard Bramwell Jackson (1871-­1940) began photographing yachts near the turn of the 20th century, during the apex of yachting in America and in the region where it flourished most_Marblehead, Massachusetts. Shooting primarily from his powerboat Alison, Jackson was a familiar sight on the waters off the North Shore, jockeying his craft into position to capture the beauty of sailing.

August Loeffler born May 1864 in NY, is the son of John Loeffler, photographer. John Loeffler was born Dec 1833 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He emigrated to US 1854 and married Emily in 1860. They had five children: Elizabeth, Otto, August, Oscar and Alexander.
August Loeffler published real photo postcards of his own work and contributed images to cards depicting the Catskills and New York City...