Columbia the first 12 meter built after world war II and the first 12 meter to defend the America’s Cup.
Category: america’s cup
The 12 meter era of the America’s cup
August 28,1851 Cowes, Isle of Wight
26 years ago in 12 meter history
The New York Yacht Club lost the America’s Cup 26 years ago this September. Change is always troubling for anyone. I have always regarded this event as: the right thing happened for all the wrong reasons.
12 meter prize giving
12 meter world championship
Tomorrow is the first day of racing for the 2009 world championship for 12 meters. Unfortunately there are no boats from outside the United States; in fact all the boats are from Newport. The 12 meter class is an ISAF class and guided by the regulations of ISAF. It is unfortunate that participation is down,it may give the winner a sense of a hollow victory.
CASTOR & POLLUX ARE SERIOUSLY FOR SALE
These two wonderful one-third scale America’s Cup boats are listed for sale with Harry Morgan at Sparkman & Stephens.
FOR SALE
Alan Bond Ben Lexen
Recently a posting on Ebay of the deck plan of Courageous reminded me of a past memory. Cowes Week 1975, We had been living in Cowes in an apartment over The Duke of York a pub at the top of the high street. Bob Miller aka Ben Lexen took over our lease. I left for the United States for the Trans-atlantic back to England. Leading up to that however, I spent time with Bob and Jack Knights, another great English sailor.
more wire tails
The entry about wire sheets reminded me of an incident while sailing on Intrepid in 1979. If you read far enough back in my blog there is an entry about my two seasons aboard Intrepid with Gerry Driscoll. It was an attempt by Gerry to come back in 1980 with Intrepid. It was contingent on finding financial backing. We were sailing against France 3 everyday, as Intrepid belonged to Baron Bic at the time.