Download or read book Thomas J Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns written by Richard V. Simpson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas J Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns written by Richard V. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas J. Lipton's America's Cup Campaigns is the saga on one man's three decade obsession with winning the America's Cup. This is author Richard V. Simpson's fifth title concerning the quest for the America's Cup-the Blue Riband prize for the sport of large ocean racing yachts. In this book, Simpson relates brief stories of some of the most interesting of the early races for the Cup which lead up to the Lipton challenges. The narrative covers the development of the early sloops and schooners from wood, to metal and the challenges faced by designers. For this narrative Simpson has searched century-old tabloids for early sport writers' predictions and observation of the contestants; he has resurrected many long-forgotten contemporary accounts relative to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century yachts built especially as America's Cup racers. This historical account of the Lipton and Herreshoff face-offs is a sterling read for professional, amateur, and armchair sailor.
Download or read book Sir Thomas J Lipton written by Simon Olding and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Thomas Lipton and the America Cup written by Charles Thomas Bateman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The America s Cup written by Jerome Edmund Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lawson History of the America s Cup written by Winfield Martin Thompson and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year's 150th anniversary of the America's Cup provides a unique, never again to be repeated opportunity to purchase a copy of the most famous book on the Cup, one that is considered the official and most detailed history of the first 50 years. Published originally in 1902 in a limited and numbered edition of only 3,000 copies, the book is almost impossible to find and even used copies easily cost $1,500 or more. An exquisite, limited and numbered reprint of only 1,500 copies was published by Sheridan House in 1986. It went quickly out of print. Now quite unexpectedly a couple of dozen books have been found and are being offered for sale. This is a facsimile edition, in large format (7 [1/2] 11 [1/2]), ornately brassed on high quality buckram in the Victorian tradition. The cover is gold and white linen. Full gold edging. There are 90 illustrations, 17 of which are full-page watercolors of famous America's Cup challengers in full sail. There is also a fascinating assortment of sketches, yacht plans and race charts. A very special collector's item.
Download or read book The Last Days of the Schooner America written by David Gendell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The schooner America was a technological marvel and a child star. In the summer of 1851, just weeks after her launching at New York, she crossed the Atlantic and sailed to an upset victory against a fleet of champions. The silver cup she won that day is still coveted by sportsmen. Almost immediately after that famous victory, she began a decades-long run of adventure, neglect, rehabilitations, and hard sailing, always surrounded by colorful, passionate personalities. America ran and enforced wartime blockades. She carried spies across the ocean. And she was on the scene as yachtsmen and business titans spent freely and competed fiercely for the cup she first won. By the early twentieth century, she was in desperate need of a thorough refit. The old thoroughbred floated in brackish water at the United States Naval Academy, stripped of her sails and rotting in the sun. Refitting America would be a massive project—expensive and potentially distracting for a nation struggling to emerge from the Great Depression and preparing for a world war. But the project had a powerful sponsor. On a windy evening in December 1940, the eighty-nine-year-old America was hauled “groaning and complaining” up a marine railway at Annapolis: the first physical step in a rehabilitation rumored to have been set in motion by President Franklin Roosevelt himself. The haul-out brought the famous schooner into the heart of the Annapolis Yacht Yard, a privately owned company with a staff capable of completing such a project, but with leadership determined to convert their facility into a modern warship production plant on behalf of the United States and its allies. The Last Days of the Schooner America traces the history of the famous vessel, from her design, build, and early racing career through her lesser-known Civil War service and the never-before-told story of her final days and moments on the ground at Annapolis. The schooner’s story is set against a vivid picture of the entrepreneurial forces behind the fast, focused rise of the Annapolis Yacht Yard as the United States prepares for and enters World War II. As wooden warships are built around her, America waits for a rehabilitation that would never happen. To bring this unique story to life, Annapolis sailor David Gendell delves into archival sources and oral histories and interviews some of the last living people who saw America at the Annapolis Yacht Yard.
Download or read book The America s Cup Challenge 1903 written by Jane Colihan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They tell me I have a beautiful boat," said the challenger, Sir Thomas Lipton. "What I want is a boat to lift the Cup."
Download or read book Collection of Newspaper Cuttings Relating to The America Cup Sir Thomas Lipton written by James Watson (Capt.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The America s Cup Races written by Herbert Lawrence Stone and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The America s Cup Races Classic Reprint written by Herbert L. Stone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The America's Cup Races Chapter VIII. The mayflower-galatea race OF 1886 IX. The scotch challenger thistle and her race against volunteer X. Lord dunraven's two challenges, and the vigilant- valkyrie II match OF 1893 XI. The defender-valkyrie III race OF 1895. Lord dunraven AT odds with the new york yacht club XII. Sir thomas lipton's first challenge XIII. The second lipton challenge. The shamrock ii-columbia race OF 1901 XIV. The last race for the cup. The reli ance-shamrock III series OF 1903 XV. Events leading UP TO the race OF 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Official Program Sir Thomas J Lipton Competitive Cup Races August 18 20 21 1906 written by Columbia Yacht Club of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The America s Cup written by Pat Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts some of the highlights in the history of the America's Cup yachting competition, from its beginning in 1851 through the 1987 victory of Dennis Conner.
Download or read book Yachting written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Comeback written by G Bruce Knecht and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Ellison had poured more than $200 million into his latest America's Cup campaign, but Oracle Team USA was down 1-8. New Zealand needed just one more win. Oracle ultimately beat back the odds. But how? No one knew until G. Bruce Knecht wrote The Comeback, his pulse-pounding, revelation-filled account of the team's desperate stop-at-nothing campaign.
Download or read book The America s Cup written by and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comeback written by Dennis Conner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of Conner's involvement in, and ultimate domination of, the America's Cup. In 1983, after being the first American skipper to lose the cup in 132 years, Conner made a comeback after a $15 million campaign lasting 3 years.
