On August 22nd, 2012, the ACWS Racing are raced in San Francisco Bay aboard catamarans, the AC45. Die Schweizer X40 hat heute den iShares Cup gewonnen. Das Group siegte nach den 18 Rennen der dreitägigen Regatta mit sechs Punkten Vorsprung auf Group Origin. Die Bedingungen präsentierten sich sehr wechselhaft - von einem Mistral am Freitag bis hin zu einer moderaten Brise am Samstag. Am frühen Sonntag lag die Windstärke etwa bei 25 Knoten, fiel dann aber gegen Nachmittag auf 15 Knoten und Alinghi sicherte sich drei erste Plätze in Serie sowie einen dritten und zwei vierte Plätze.

In 1988, when the City of Baltimore launched her flagship modeled on these earlier vessels, Captain Lane Briggs of the TugantineNorfolk Rebel — the world's only sail-powered schooner-rigged tugboat — challenged the Pleasure of Baltimore II to a race from Baltimore to Norfolk, reviving an historic rivalry between schooners, captains and cities on the Bay. With the problem accepted, the Nice Chesapeake Bay Schooner Yacht America Race (GCBSR) was born.

I occurred to bump into this design the opposite day and it is one I had by no means seen earlier than. This forty six' picket raised pilothouse motoryacht was designed in 1964 for Packanack Marine Company of Newark, New Jersey. Maybe the company was named after the lake in New Jersey which bears the same title.

The Teksoglass moulds were bought within the Nineteen Seventies by Turun Teräskaluste in Turku, and this manufacturer renamed the type Aquarius forty. The first hull was prepared within the spring 1977. Six yachts were built, one among them has the rudder separated from the keel, and one other has sailed around the world. A duplicate of the brochure for Aquarius 40 in German language is appended.

For one remaining little bit of fun, in the picture under the Alden 83' staysail schooner SERENA is sporting her rig for the TransPac race to Hawaii.