The Duchess of Cambridge teams up with Sir Ben Ainslie to get more young people into sailing and the marine industry. As reported in the Daily Express – The Duchess, a keen yachtswoman in her younger days, will act as a figurehead for the 1851 Trust, the charitable arm of Olympic hero Sir Ben Ainslie’s …
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The Gilded Age, coined by Mark Twain in 1873, represented an era of rapid economic growth, great fortunes were made, and large vessels were built. The War Revenue Act of 1917 greatly increased federal income tax rates and effectively reduced the large sums of fortunes. Smaller owner operated yachts were now being built and campaigned, through …
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EVENT: Levin Memorial Regatta DATE: January 3rd – 4th, 2015 YACHT CLUB: Coral Reef Yacht Club YEARS RUNNING: The history of the International Star Class is perhaps the richest of any racing keelboat in the world, and much of that history has been written in South Florida. It’s now time to update that history with …
THE “FIVE-TEN” C. Raymond Hunt “In 1945, I designed the original “510” class yacht for myself as a logical development of the “210”. Launched in December 1945 as a racing and weekend cruising yacht. She is built with no structural keel, and is constructed with two longitudinal trusses on oak floor stiffeners extending to the …
THE “TWO-TWENTY-FIVE” In 1936 Raymond Hunt along with engineers Bror Tamm and Gordon Munro decided to build a 36’0″ prototype at the Lawley Yard in Neponset, Masachusetts. Although there were doubts about her potential sailing abilities, she quickly proved doubters wrong. But, at the time, no one seemed to like the prototype, she was too …