"America" Returns to

Wooden Boat Festival

“America” Returns to WBF

NEWPORT BEACH - Jan 19, 2020

Once again, sailing yacht America graces Newport Harbor with her 2nd appearance at the Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival. America will offer FREE tours during the festival as well as sailing opportunities for those who would like to cruise with her crew. 


Without exaggerating, AMERICA is the world’s most famous racing yacht. It is also one of the most beautiful yachts in the world. The reason is simple. The original AMERICA put yachting on the map. It is why the most famous trophy in sailing is called The America’s Cup. In 1851, a boat named ‘AMERICA’ won the ‘Royal Yacht Squadrons’ 100 Guinea Cup given to the winner of a race around the Isle of Wight. It is said…that the margin was so great that watching AMERICA sail past the royal yacht, Queen Victoria famously asked “Who came second? Your majesty…there is no second” was the reply.


The winners, members of the New York Yacht Club, donated the trophy to the Club, to be held as a ‘challenge’ trophy. Thus was born the America’s Cup, named after the yacht, not the country.


There aren’t many yachting stories as exciting as the 95-year history of ‘AMERICA’…The Low Black Schooner…from New York that won the most famous race of them all. Designed by a young genius who combined the best of Old World theory and New World practicality, and owned by a syndicate of powerful men out to prove American maritime prowess, she did what almost everybody thought was impossible. Her later career was equally as colorful – conveyor of secret agents, Confederate blockade runner, Union warship, Naval Academy training vessel, and pride and joy of a famous Civil War general and politician. By her end in 1945, she was one of the most honored vessels in the United States.


The original was destroyed during World War II….ours is a near perfect replica built in 1995 at a cost of more than $6 million. Replica or not…in 2013 the “America” spent 3 months at AC34, the 34th America’s Cup event in San Francisco as the desired VIP hospitality suite and race viewing vessel. She led the opening day parade on July 5 and was there at the finish line with “Oracle Team USA” vip guests as their team crossed the line to win on September 25. ‘America’ featured prominently on NBC tv flying our huge Oracle team and USA flags.

“America” Returns to WBF

NEWPORT BEACH - Jan 19, 2020

Once again, sailing yacht America graces Newport Harbor with her 2nd appearance at the Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival. America will offer FREE tours during the festival as well as sailing opportunities for those who would like to cruise with her crew. 


Without exaggerating, AMERICA is the world’s most famous racing yacht. It is also one of the most beautiful yachts in the world. The reason is simple. The original AMERICA put yachting on the map. It is why the most famous trophy in sailing is called The America’s Cup. In 1851, a boat named ‘AMERICA’ won the ‘Royal Yacht Squadrons’ 100 Guinea Cup given to the winner of a race around the Isle of Wight. It is said…that the margin was so great that watching AMERICA sail past the royal yacht, Queen Victoria famously asked “Who came second? Your majesty…there is no second” was the reply.


The winners, members of the New York Yacht Club, donated the trophy to the Club, to be held as a ‘challenge’ trophy. Thus was born the America’s Cup, named after the yacht, not the country.


There aren’t many yachting stories as exciting as the 95-year history of ‘AMERICA’…The Low Black Schooner…from New York that won the most famous race of them all. Designed by a young genius who combined the best of Old World theory and New World practicality, and owned by a syndicate of powerful men out to prove American maritime prowess, she did what almost everybody thought was impossible. Her later career was equally as colorful – conveyor of secret agents, Confederate blockade runner, Union warship, Naval Academy training vessel, and pride and joy of a famous Civil War general and politician. By her end in 1945, she was one of the most honored vessels in the United States.


The original was destroyed during World War II….ours is a near perfect replica built in 1995 at a cost of more than $6 million. Replica or not…in 2013 the “America” spent 3 months at AC34, the 34th America’s Cup event in San Francisco as the desired VIP hospitality suite and race viewing vessel. She led the opening day parade on July 5 and was there at the finish line with “Oracle Team USA” vip guests as their team crossed the line to win on September 25. ‘America’ featured prominently on NBC tv flying our huge Oracle team and USA flags.

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