America

…cup was won by the America, a 100-foot (30-metre) schooner from New York City, and subsequently became known as the America’s Cup. The American winners of the cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht…

racing yacht America, using cotton sails, decisively defeated a fleet of British yachts in 1851. Cotton sailcloth has the advantage over flax, hemp, ramie, jute, and combinations of these materials as a fabric in that it can be woven more closely and therefore will not stretch out…

…affected by the success of America, which was designed by George Steers for a syndicate headed by John C. Stevens and was the boat for which the America’s Cup was named after its victory at Cowes in 1851. Early yachts were not designed and built in the modern sense, only…