Herreshoff Fun Fact: VIGILANT, the Americas Cup defender in 1893, - TopicsExpress



          

Herreshoff Fun Fact: VIGILANT, the Americas Cup defender in 1893, defeated the Earl of Dunravens cutter, VALKYRIE II. It was a little unjust and misleading for Stephens to characterize her as having ...no internal fittings except sail bins, because the year after she sailed for the Cup, she crossed the Atlantic and raced a full season in British waters. Returning home, Herreshoffs first defender enjoyed a useful career as a yawl-rigged yacht up to 1910. She therefore fully demonstrated her structural soundness. Of all the Americas Cup defenders only VIGILANT and the 1871 winner, the schooner SAPPHO, apper to have made transatlantic passages ~ Their Last Letters Nathanael Greene Herreshoff William Picard Stephens
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:00:00 +0000

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