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Yachts - TIME

Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the

Publication: Time Magazine

J-class yachts

J-class yachts, racing yachts built during the inter-war period to the American Universal Rule . They were 23–6 metres (75–87 ft) on the waterline, and so conformed to the New York Yacht Club's J-class. As a generic term, the J-class also usually includes those yachts which were built

Publication: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea

The New York Times > Real Estate > Streetscapes: When the Automobile Replaced the Yacht

Correction Appended THE streamlined, reinforced-concrete Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive remains one of New York's most elegant public works. But when it was built in the 1930's (as the East River Drive), it deprived many well-to-do East Side riparians of their river views and access. Among these,

Publication: The New York Times

Sunshine and Classic Yachts - A Vintage Newport Labor Day Weekend:.

NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Some people preserve antiques in cabinets but today in Newport, Rhode Island, The Museum of Yachting and Panerai had 61 classic yachts racing across Narragansett Bay in heated competition at the 28th Annual Museum of Yachting Classic Yacht Regatta. With 35

Publication: PR Newswire

Park Avenue boom

Park Avenue boom, a main boom, first fitted to the American J-class yacht Enterprise , which successfully defended the America's Cup in 1930. The conception of the yacht designer Starling Burgess, it was triangular in section, 1.2 metres (4 ft) at its widest point with a wide flat top—so

Publication: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea

Re-launching a Grand Era - New York Times

LEAD: The golden age of yachting, a period in sailboat racing that peaked in the 1930's with mighty J-Class sloops competing for the America's Cup, is being revived this summer in the Northeast. The golden age of yachting, a period in sailboat racing that peaked in the 1930's with mighty J-Class

Publication: The New York Times

Unnamed Defender - TIME

Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt dashed up from his Florida winter home to Manhattan one day last week, turned around the next and dashed back. Before he left, however, he cleared away the fog of rumor surrounding the defense of the America's Cup against the challenge of the Royal Yacht

Publication: Time Magazine

Since 1851, A Race With Grace

"We have been beaten, signally defeated on our own element, our Yacht Squadron routed." - London Times, August 1851 It has been almost a century and a half now since the 101-foot New York pilot boat America trounced a fleet of 15 English vessels in a 53-mile race around the Isle of Wight to capture

Publication: The Washington Post