Founded in 1980 by a group of enthusiasts who wanted to promote the culture of classic yachting, the Museum of Yachting Classic Yacht Regatta brings dozens of boats built by some of the greatest American masters (Herreshoff, Sparkman & Stephens) from all over the region each year to vie for the final stage of the …
La Liberté was built 1934 by Kungsörs Shipyard, Kungsör, Sweden. Excellent condition. Current owner since 1981. Home is Djursholm, Sweden. First owner Max Gumpel was close friend with Greta Garbo, who sailed her many times during the 1930s.
The city of Marblehead (Massachusetts, USA), with its rich legacy associated with yachting and sailing — claimed by many to be the birthplace of the American Navy — is the ideal place to open the North American Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, began in 2010.
Every year in the third weekend of August, the island of Nantucket (Massachusetts, USA), 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.
CHARLOTTE is a film about Gannon & Benjamin Marine Railway, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin established the boatyard in 1980 with the purpose of designing, building, and maintaining traditionally built wooden boats, and in the process they transformed Vineyard Haven harbor into a mecca for wooden boat …