AMERICA'S CUP - 34th AMERICA'S CUP - AC WORLD SERIES - SAN FRANCISCO 2012 - AMRYLLIS - DUSTER - AC45 - AC CATAMARAN'S DESIGNS

1851…

1876…

1877…

2012…

What a premonition!

©François Chevalier - John Gilpin (1877)

On August 22^nd, 2012, the America’s Cup World Series (ACWS) Racing will start in San Francisco Bay…

161 years ago, on August 22^nd, 1851, the schooner yacht America won the race around the Isle of Wight and the trophy awarded by the Royal Yacht Squadron.

©François Chevalier - America (1851)

136 years ago, on May 1876, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff launched the Amaryllis, the first modern catamaran… A year later, he had launched the John Gilpin, his second catamaran.

©François Chevalier - John Gilpin, lines (1877)

135 years ago, a little racing catamaran, Duster (1877), sailed by one crew was cruising right past front the San Francisco Yacht Club!

©University of California - Berkeley/Bancroft Library - Duster (1877)

On August 22^nd, 2012, the ACWS Racing are raced in San Francisco Bay aboard catamarans, the AC45.

©François Chevalier - AC45 lines

History always tends to repeat itself.

By Jacques Taglang