OPERA HOUSE CUP RACE (August 18, 2013)
EVENT: Opera House Cup
DATE: August 18th
WOODENBOAT REGATTA SERIES: Event 2
PANERAI CLASSIC YACHTS CHALLENGE NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUIT: Event 2
CONDITIONS: SE, 4-11 knts, variable
Co-Sponsoring Yacht Clubs, Nantucket Yacht Club and the Great Harbor Yacht Club, Every year in the third weekend of August, the island of Nantucket (Massachusetts, USA), a prestigious tourist resort south of the celebrated peninsula of Cape Cod, hosts the Opera House Cup, the second leg of the North American Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge.
CLASSIC YACHT DIVISION
1st Place “Quest” (CRF Rating 35.2)
Quest The 8 Metre was partially built in 1929-1930 by Fife III family’s yard in Fairlie, Scotland, then shipped to Oakville, Canada, with a complete set of instructions for final assembly and launching. Spent her entire life in fresh water until 2011. One of three “eights” owned by Ronald and Diane Palm, and is one of an active fleet of 8-Meters that race in the summer out of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto.
SPIRIT of TRADITION DIVISION
1st Place “Equus” (CRF Rating )
Equus was designed by Brooklin Boat Yard’s present day Chief Designer Robert Stephens and built by Rockport Marine EQUUS is well known to the New England and Caribbean traditional boat racing set. (Specifications: LOA: 46′9″ * LWL: 34′0″ * Beam: 11’0″ * Draft 8’0″ * Sail Area: 981 sq ft)
ALERION CLASS DIVISION
1st Place “Serendipity” (CRF Rating )
The original Alerion was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for his own use in 1912 and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. (Specifications: LOA: 26′0″ * LWL: 21′9″ * Beam: 7’7″ * Draft 2’6″ * Sail Area:
RH TIEDEMANN AWARD
Chips was designed by W. Starling Burgess in 1913 as Onda III, and built by Burgess Co. in Marblehead, MA. to the Universal Rating Rule, she rates larger than a Q-boat and smaller than a N-boat. (Specifications: LOA: 51′4″ * LWL: 35′11″ * Beam: 10’4″ * Draft 7’4″ * Sail Area:
12 Metre Class Division
1st Place “Valiant” (CRF Rating )
Valiant was designed by Sparkman & Stephens, and was built by Derecktor , to defend the America’s Cup in 1970. (Specifications: LOA: 64.40′ * LWL: 47.67′ * Beam: 12.00′ * Draft 9.05′ * Sail Area: