Designer Watches as Keel Poured for America’s Cup Defender The first step in the construction of the new sloop that Harold S. Vanderbilt will offer as defender of America’s Cup next summer against the British “Endeavour II” is shown as the keel was poured at Bath, Maine. The £60,000 craft will have a “fin” of lead weighing between 80 and 90 tons. In the lower left is W. Starling Burgess, designer, watching the start of construction.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 10
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76Designer Watches as Keel Poured for America’s Cup Defender The first step in the construction of the new sloop that Harold S. Vanderbilt will offer as defender of America’s Cup next summer against the British “Endeavour II” is shown as the keel was poured at Bath, Maine. The £60,000 craft will have a “fin” of lead weighing between 80 and 90 tons. In the lower left is W. Starling Burgess, designer, watching the start of construction. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 10
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