#yacht racing

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vanitie, International Yacht Races, Newport, Rhode Island

Margaret Bourke-White

1934

[rodpower78]

The Crew of Australia II celebrating winning the 1983 America's Cup.

[randomberlinchick]

Yes, it's a VERY long read but good as hell . . . Appalling greed on the one hand by Clipper Ventures, and on the other, folks with money who are chasing self-fulfillment through extreme sports. Quite similar to the awful stories surrounding Mt. Everest (mentioned in the article), featuring people with deep pockets and little or no climbing experience who get dragged up the mountain by sherpas and technology.

I did scratch my head about this passage though:

Clipper was designed for ordinary people: offering training and the opportunity to join a mixed-ability crew, it would enable customers to achieve the ambition of a lifetime....To take part in the whole race, over seven or eight legs, costs around £50,000.

I guess we have different understandings of the word "ordinary". 😂

[livesunique]

‘Elena’

Elena is a traditional sailing schooner that was built and launched in 2009 from Factoria Naval de Marin. Elena has been conscientiously recreated from Morton Plant’s 1910 commission of the same name using the original drawings by designer Nathaniel G Herreshoff.

Photo by James Robinson Taylor

[sanlad]

[max-e-doodle]

HUGO BOSS

[artapir]

Gerwalk racing yacht and ornithopter seaplanes. The wings and sails of these craft are composed of actively deforming adaptive myoeletric materials.

[matthoopergay]

boy i wont you…………..

[malbecmusings]

Wally Yachts 27m Tiketitoo - bred to RUN

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

The Duchess of Cambridge + Sailing | Throughout her time as a Duchess, Catherine has taken every opportunity to throw herself into sailing

[rodpower78]

Dennis Conner celebrating winning the 1987 America’s Cup on board Stars & Stripes 87 in 1987.

[utilitycaster]

obsessed with the Wizard Sonder because he seems perfectly fine in that aging hippie way but this is implies that The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows exists in Umora and specifically in the citadel which in turn implies the existence of a YouTube equivalent. Also I've always had a bone to pick with the word sonder specifically but it does fit the aging hippie guy stereotypes.

[livesunique]

“Atlantic”

Built in 1903 by Townsend and Downey shipyard, and designed by William Gardner, and Frederick Maxfield Hoyt (yacht designer) for Wilson Marshall.

The three-masted schooner was skippered by Charlie Barr who was accompanied by navigator and tactician Frederick Maxfield Hoyt when it set the record for fastest transatlantic passage by a monohull in the 1905 Kaiser's Cup race.

The record remained unbroken for nearly 100 years!

[haberolacom]

TAYK – Eker Olympos Regatta yelken yarışında “Büyük” kupa Fenerbahçe 1 t...

[stylestappen]

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