J-class yacht

Boats built according to the rule reached their peak in the large J-class yachts.

In the 1930s aluminium masts were introduced on large J-class yachts.

It was the last time J-class yachts would race for the America's Cup.

Fairey was also a keen J-class yacht enthusiast.

Camper and Nicholsons built four J-class yachts, three of which raced in the America's Cup.

A member of the New York Yacht Club, he owned the Weetamoe, a J-class yacht.

Fay had challenged using the maximum size one-masted yacht possible - even larger than a J-class yacht - which was swiftly built and presented for the contest.

Most J-Class yachts were scrapped prior or during World War II because steel and lead had become precious to the war effort.

The J-class yachts from the 1930s remained the default for the Cup, but post-war economic realities meant that no one could afford to challenge in this hugely expensive class.

In 1930, Harold achieved the pinnacle of yacht racing success by defending the America's Cup in the J-class yacht Enterprise.

That was the year of the great 120-foot J-Class yachts Enterprise and Shamrock V, which raced off Newport, R.I.

More than twice the length of the massive J-class yachts of the 1930s, she is large enough for a double-decker bus to drive inside the hull without protruding out the top.

(Only a few J-Class yachts remain, including the newly refitted Endeavour, available for charter out of New England in the summer, the Caribbean in the winter.)

Between 1930 and 1937 he created three America's Cup-winning J-Class yachts, Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger (the latter in partnership with Olin Stephens).

In 1936, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt engaged the Bath Iron Works to build the America's Cup Defender Ranger, the greatest of all J-class yachts.

The J-class yacht Velsheda was designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson and built in 1933 by Camper and Nicholsons at Gosport, Hampshire.

- Other displays relating to Ellen MacArthur, Trinity House, Fleet Reviews, Princess Flying Boat, Hovercraft and J-Class yachts.

In 1934 Boardman was a member of the crew of the British J-class yacht Endeavour which competed in the America's Cup off the coast of Rhode Island.

After the war he returned to boat design and construction and later designed three successful J-class yacht defenders of the America's Cup: Enterprise in 1930, Rainbow in 1934, and Ranger in 1937.

In 1993, the marine artist John Mecray and Elizabeth Meyer, who restored the J-Class yacht Endeavor, and several others founded the school on a 2.5 acre property on the Newport waterfront.

He was a commander in the volunteer corps and managed a shooting range at Sandscale Haws He ordered the J-class yacht White Heather II from William Fife in 1907.

With twenty years having gone by since the last Cup match in 1937 the New York Yacht Club looked for a cheaper alternative to the J-class yachts in order to restart interest in the Cup.

Some bespoke yachts are the 47 meter sloop, Hyperion, the 90 meter three mast schooner Athena, the 58 meter ketch Ethereal with hybrid propulsion, and the replica of the Super J-class yacht Endeavour II, Hanuman.

The America's Cup racing resumed in 1958 after World War II by a syndicate led by Henry Sears, more economical vessels were desired to replace the huge and expensive J-class yachts that were raced in the 1930s; the 12 Metre class was selected.