"Two Boats" (Triptych) is a Beautiful, 3 Piece, Limited Edition, Photograph On Canvas of The Retired 12-metre Class Yacht, Stars & Stripes 87 (right) and The Canadian 12-metre Class Yacht, True North IV (left).
The 1987 America's Cup was the twenty-sixth challenge for the America's Cup.
The American challenger Stars & Stripes 87, sailed by Dennis Conner, beat the Australian defender Kookaburra III, sailed by Iain Murray, in a four-race sweep in the best of seven series. Conner thus became the first person both to lose the America's Cup and then to win it back.
The series was held in Gage Roads off Fremantle, Western Australia during the Australian summer months between October 1986 and February 1987. The Royal Perth Yacht Club was the defending club and the organizer of the defense series. Yacht Club Costa Esmeralda of Porto Cervo, Sardinia was appointed the challenger of record and hence the organizer of the challenger series.
This was the last time that 12-metre class yachts were used in the America's Cup and the first time for 132 years that it had not been defended by the New York Yacht Club.
True North IV, nicknamed “Ivy”, is the sister hull to TRUE NORTH. Using True North as a model, designer Steve Killing made improvements to True North IV that he thought would make her faster in the 1987 America’s Cup race. She is longer on the waterline and heavier for better speed and seaworthiness in the strong Australian winds for which she was built. At the time she was drawn, True North was a bold design move – the longest waterline length 12-metre ever.
Finances were running low in both the CANADA II and TRUE NORTH camps and Canadian businessman and sailor, Paul Phelan, combined both challenges under one umbrella and added major financial support to the venture. Unfortunately, True North IV was left unfinished in Canada and never made it to America’s Cup competition. In May 1993 it was shipped to St. Maarten where “Ivy” was completed and launched by 12 Metre Challenge.
This work of art is one of a limited edition of 25, and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
"Two Boats" (Triptych) is a Beautiful, 3 Piece, Limited Edition, Photograph On Canvas of The Retired 12-metre Class Yacht, Stars & Stripes 87 (right) and The Canadian 12-metre Class Yacht, True North IV (left).
The 1987 America's Cup was the twenty-sixth challenge for the America's Cup.
The American challenger Stars & Stripes 87, sailed by Dennis Conner, beat the Australian defender Kookaburra III, sailed by Iain Murray, in a four-race sweep in the best of seven series. Conner thus became the first person both to lose the America's Cup and then to win it back.
The series was held in Gage Roads off Fremantle, Western Australia during the Australian summer months between October 1986 and February 1987. The Royal Perth Yacht Club was the defending club and the organizer of the defense series. Yacht Club Costa Esmeralda of Porto Cervo, Sardinia was appointed the challenger of record and hence the organizer of the challenger series.
This was the last time that 12-metre class yachts were used in the America's Cup and the first time for 132 years that it had not been defended by the New York Yacht Club.
True North IV, nicknamed “Ivy”, is the sister hull to TRUE NORTH. Using True North as a model, designer Steve Killing made improvements to True North IV that he thought would make her faster in the 1987 America’s Cup race. She is longer on the waterline and heavier for better speed and seaworthiness in the strong Australian winds for which she was built. At the time she was drawn, True North was a bold design move – the longest waterline length 12-metre ever.
Finances were running low in both the CANADA II and TRUE NORTH camps and Canadian businessman and sailor, Paul Phelan, combined both challenges under one umbrella and added major financial support to the venture. Unfortunately, True North IV was left unfinished in Canada and never made it to America’s Cup competition. In May 1993 it was shipped to St. Maarten where “Ivy” was completed and launched by 12 Metre Challenge.
This work of art is one of a limited edition of 25, and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
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