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.
To understand the future, we must know and respect the past."
Loïck PEYRON (Voiles et Voiliers July 2014)
RESOLUTE WINS 4th RACE BY 9 MN 58 S.
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920 - It was a runaway race, from the start off Ambrose Lightship, where the defender danced away from the snub-nosed, green boat at the start and flitted into the face of the ten-knot wind.
Fifteenth challenger for the America's CupThe new boat of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith is being built at Gosport from the design of Charles E. Nicholson, who drew the plans for the Shamrock IV and the Shamrock V. Ten experts in various sciences have been called into consultation on the new racer's construction. It will be called the Endeavor.
On his return to England in 1870 Mr. Ashbury laid his plans for another attempt to win the cup, and gave an order for a schooner to Michael Ratsey, of Cowes, Isle of Wight. The result was Livonia, named for a province in Russia in which Mr. Ashbury had made money in railroad-building contracts.
The vessel was launched April 6th, 1871, and great things were predicted for her.
In 1893,the New York yachtsmen went to Herreshoff with orders for two cup-defence vessels, and he produced Vigilant, centre-board, and Colonia, a keel boat.
Colonia was owned by a syndicate composed of Archibald Rogers, Frederick W. Vanderbilt, William K. Vanderbilt, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, J. Pierpont Morgan, and John E. Brooks.
Frank C Paine, born on July 9, 1890, Boston, Mass, was the son of General Charles J Paine of Boston, a three times owner of the successful America’s Cup defenders for the New York Yacht Club, “Puritan” in 1885 (as part of a syndicate) and later “Mayflower” (1886) and “Volunteer” (1887). He was brought up in the world of yachts and was younger brother to an amateur yacht designer John Paine, who had designed ‘Jubilee’ for a Boston based syndicate ....
Thomas Fairland (1804 – October 1852) was an English lithographer, engraver and portrait painter.
Fairland showed an early interest in drawing and practiced from nature in Kensington Gardens in London.
American sea painter William Pierce Stubbs was born in Bucksport, Maine in 1842. As the son of sea captain Reuben Stubbs his childhood years were filled with a fascination for the sea and the great sailing ships that worked their way along the Maine coast.
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