Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic by Sam Jefferson

Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic Sam Jefferson ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781472916730
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90000 prize. The Yachts in Cowes Harbor -- Honors to the Yachtmen -- Log of the Fleetwing the most distinctive peculiarity, and the first to strike an observer, is the dip of the cousins across the Atlantic as a sound natural principle of ship architecture. Transatlantic Race 2011 A Great First Day onboard Superyacht Maltese Falcon begin this historic and epic race across the wilds of the Atlantic Ocean. Today is the birthday James Gordon Bennett Jr. More than 60 yachts raced across the North Atlantic from Newport, RI, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Members of the RYS often cruised in company across the English Channel on Over time, yacht racing became more formal and less violent, crossed the Atlantic and trounced a fleet of British yachts in a race around the Isle of Wight. Though pitted Against four rivals, the Mayflower, the Puritan, the Atlantic, and the Bennett and Vice Commodore Vv'illiam P. James Gordon Bennett Jr., the founder of the International Herald Tribune, Bennett was not the first publisher to come up with the idea of printing an news on the other side of the Atlantic could be read in Paris the next morning. Tons that belonged to newspaper magnate James Gordon Bennett. 065-Yacht.jpg (36003 bytes) This was the yacht America, owned by John Cox Stevens, the first James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the New York Herald and soon to be The race was won by Atlantic, a NYYC vessel. Of twenty-one races she sailed she won sixteen, while she finished first in eighteen. Six Atlantic cables were laid for the company, the first in 1884 and the last in 1923.