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Yachting

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Percy Chubb II; America's Cup Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-194
Abstract This collection contains approximately 125 pieces and 6 notebooks, kept and compiled by Commodore Percy Chubb II, of the N.Y.Y.C. from 1962 through 1974. These papers are relative primarily to the America's Cup trial races, ie. The observation trials and the final trials, and consists of sailing instructions for these races, crew lists, and race data sheets containing mark times and the order of finish for each trial race. The notebooks were evidently kept by Mr. Chubb, and contain his brief...
Dates: 1962 - 1974
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of O.C. & K.R. Wilson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-243
Abstract

Bills, receipts, accounts, correspondence, and other business records; printed materials, either for Wilson or associated businesses; items relating to yachting; signal flag drawings and measurements, photographs, and pamphlet; stock certificates; account books; and miscellaneous materials, including photographs, obituaries, stationery, advertisements, and business cards.

Dates: ca. 1870-1950
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Off Soundings Club

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-285
Abstract

Race notices, minutes, board and committee chairmen reports, membership notices, scrapbooks, and a ledger, reflecting the club's history and its activities.

Dates: 1933 - 2009
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Schooner Atlantic

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-268
Abstract

Records of the racing yacht Atlantic. Includes several pieces of ephemera from her victory in the 1905 Ocean Race for the Kaiser's Cup, as well as a small journal kept on board for the race. Collection also includes a number of newspaper clippings detailing her construction, successes under the ownership of Wilson Marshall, and eventual loss.

Dates: 1903 - 1979
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-198
Abstract

Correspondence, membership information, minutes, scrapbooks, race results, and other documents, reflecting the club's history and its activities. Includes books by John Parkinson and William P. Stephens and information concerning the America's Cup and other racing events. Other organizations represented include the New York Yacht Club and North American Yacht Racing Union.

Dates: 1872 - 1998
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Ship TUSITALA

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-072
Abstract

Correspondence, track chart, articles and newspaper clippings about the ship, and logbooks (1924-1925) for three voyages.

Dates: 1924 - 1939
Found in: Manuscripts

Roderick Stephens collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-163
Abstract Logs, navigator's notebooks, scrapbooks, guest registers, notes, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, and other papers, chiefly relating to Stephen's activities as navigator and/or captain of various vessels in long distance racing, but also reflecting his and his brother, Olin Stephens' personal and business affairs. Includes materials relating to the yawls DORADE and STORMY WEATHER, winners of the Transatlantic and Fastnet races, and races aboard his personal sloop MUSTANG; his...
Dates: 1931 - 1990
Found in: Manuscripts

Timothea Larr USYRU Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-241
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, memos, minutes, and related papers, collected by Larr, chiefly relating to the organization's involvement in the Australia II keel controversy during the 1983 America's Cup.

Dates: 1981 - 1986
Found in: Manuscripts

William Butler Duncan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-215
Abstract

Correspondence, memos, printed material, and other papers, reflecting Duncan's yachting career.

Dates: 1902 - 1932
Found in: Manuscripts

William Smyth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-165
Abstract

This small collection is essentially the business papers of William Smyth, created during his time at the Dauntless and Mystic Shipyards, 1927-1971. Included are yard financial reports, meeting notices, clippings, and business correspondence, all arranged in chronological order.

Dates: 1927 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts