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3 unusual facts about Yacht


Blue Ensign

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established British yacht clubs, such as the Royal Engineers Yacht Club, The Royal Motor Yacht Club, the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club.

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established Canadian yacht clubs, such as, the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Champlain Yacht Club, Montreal Yacht Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Royal Kennebaccasis Yacht Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Marmaduke Stalkartt

Stalkartt's Naval architecture (1781) was divided into seven books: 'Of Whole-Moulding'; 'Of the Yacht'; 'Of the Sloop'; 'Of the Forty-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Seventy-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Cutter, and Ending of the Lines'; and 'Of the Frigate'.


1973–74 Whitbread Round the World Race

The crew of the Mexican yacht Sayula II, a brand new Swan 65 owned and skippered by mexican Captain Ramón Carlin, successfully won the overall race in 133 days and 13 hours.

Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority

It is also a headline sponsor of the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show and actively supports the World Rally Championship through its BP-Ford Team Abu Dhabi alliance, which also extended to sponsorship of reigning Red Bull Air Race champion Hannes Arch and international powerboat and triathlon squads.

Acheson Irvine

In 1962 the RCMP sold the ship, which was converted to a yacht, the Miriana; she sank at Montego Bay, Jamaica in May 1971.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

The yacht posed as the Flying Saucer, the yacht of James Bond villain Largo in the film Never Say Never Again.

Ali Yıldırım Koç

Ali Koç is a Rotarian and a member of the Istanbul Open Sea Yacht Club and New York Yacht Club.

Antalya Province

In addition, yacht tours are organized from the port of Antalya to Düden Waterfall-Karpuzkaldıran and Kemer, from Side to Alanya, from Demre-Çayağzı to Kekova, from Kaş to Kekova, from Kemer to Çıralı-Olympos-Adrasan and Cape Gelidonya.

Brendan Connor

For Al Jazeera English, he has profiled two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash as well as reporting on American football, ice hockey, curling, the U-S Open Tennis Championship, the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 America's Cup yacht racing, the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, the 2007 World Anti-Doping Conference in Madrid and the humanitarian sports group Right to Play.

Catalina Casino

Film tycoons such as Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwin frequently came by yacht to the Casino to preview their newest productions.

Cephalopod attack

In 2003, the crew of a yacht competing to win the round-the-world Jules Verne Trophy reported being attacked by a giant squid several hours after departing from Brittany, France.

Columbia Yachts

Valdes and Threinen sold the company to Whittaker (listed on the NYSE), but Valdes continued as president of the subsidiary Columbia Yacht Corporation, and helped to develop Whittaker Marine Group, which ultimately included Bertram Yachts, Trojan Yachts, Riva, Desco Marine, Kettenburg, Balboa Marine, and Coronado Yachts.

Commodore Clark

Edward Walter Clark, Commodore of the Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club

Constitution River

Additionally, it is a small sheltered shallow passage or yacht harbour for medium sized yachts or small craft boats to dock in the city.

Doncho Papazov

The yacht, named Tivia, took the journey around Europe in the winter of 1978, going through the Baltic Sea, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, and finally the Black Sea.

Éric de Montgolfier

Montgolfier also opened a criminal investigation targeting rock star Johnny Hallyday for allegedly raping an employee of a yacht rented by Halliday.

Granma Province

The province takes its name from the yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2nd, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the larger "Oriente Province".

Günther Hessler

On 2 October 1936 he was appointed watch officer on the Aviso Grille, Adolf Hitler's state yacht, and on 30 March 1938 transferred to the battleship Gneisenau.

Herbert L. Stone

By "diligent and enthusiastic promotion" they convinced 22 yacht owners to take part in the Bermuda Race, an event that started in New London, Connecticut and finished in Bermuda.

HMY Fubbs

The yacht's name came from the King's pet name for one of his mistresses, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.

Hochelaga

HMCS Hochelaga, from a pleasure yacht of an archduke to a Canadian military ship and ferry.

Holden VN Commodore

Under the Hawke government's Button car plan, which saw a reduction in the number of models manufactured locally, and the introduction of model sharing, the VN Commodore was rebadged as the Toyota Lexcen, named after the late America's Cup yacht designer, Ben Lexcen.

James E. Buttersworth

Buttersworth’s paintings of the 1893 Vigilant vs. Valkyrie II Cup match, done one year before his death, completed the chronicling of America's Cup races by oil painting just before the advent of successful photographic imagery.

Jon Bannenberg

Other impressive vessels since his death have been attributed to Bannenberg, including the largest private yacht in the world at the time (2002), Larry Ellison's Rising Sun.

Joseph Bowne Elwell

Elwell ultimately became wealthy enough to own property in Palm Beach, 20 horses, 5 cars, and a yacht.

La Condamine

The yacht belonging to the Prince of Monaco is usually berthed in La Condamine's large harbour, the Port of Hercules.

Madiz

Triton as the yacht was originally named, was built at Troon on the Firth of Clyde, by the Ailsa Shipyard.

MV Brigitte Bardot

On 5 January 2013 in Timaru, New Zealand, a distress call was issued in relation to the Brigitte Bardot after an observer mistook the vessel for an overturned yacht.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Philip Avery

He took time out from presenting between September 2004 and July 2005 to take part in the Global Challenge 2004-2005 yacht race.

Pleiades Club

He was a member of the Salesman's Association of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Chemists Club, Theta Delta Chi, Old Colony and the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club.

President's Cup Regatta

Then Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos, impressed by the success of Ray Ordoveza's "Vida" in the China Sea Race and Easter Regatta, encouraged the Manila Yacht Club to organize an International regatta at Subic in 1997.

Ralph U. Hyde

In August, 1922, he was selected to serve aboard the presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower for two years during the term of President Warren G. Harding, as First Lieutenant, Watch and Division Officer, and Gunnery Officer.

Rice Mill Lofts

Iarocci, in association with New Orleans architect Wayne Troyer and Los Angeles interior designer L.M. Pagano, who has designed homes and yacht interiors for Nicolas Cage and Johnny Depp.

Royal Dart Yacht Club

The Royal Dart Yacht Club was founded in 1866 located in Kingswear, Devon, England.

Santos Dumont Airport

8 November 1940: a VASP Junkers Ju-52/3mg3e registration PP-SPF taking-off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to São Paulo-Congonhas collided on mid-air with the de Havilland Dragonfly registration LV-KAB belonging to the Anglo Mexican Petroleum Company (Shell-Mex), which was preparing for a water-land in front of Fluminense Yacht Club, today Rio de Janeiro Yacht Club in Botafogo.

Shooters Island

The Townsend-Downey Company built a yacht, Meteor III, for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Skywave

In June and July 1923, Guglielmo Marconi's transmissions were completed during nights on 97 meters from Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, to his yacht Ellette in the Cape Verde Islands.

Stefan Janoski

Janoski was handpicked as a team member for Stevie Williams's clothing company Asphalt Yacht Club (AYC) that was launched in mid-July 2013.

Supermarine Air Yacht

The Air Yacht made its first flight in February 1930 at Hythe, England.

Tartan Ten

In 2006 twenty-five T-10s participated in the Chicago Yacht Club's Race to Mackinac (see Chicago to Mackinac Boat Race), a popular 333-mile race along the length of Lake Michigan from Chicago, IL to Mackinac Island, MI.

Todo Sobre Camila

However, she agrees to move forward with the engagement party which is to be held at sea in a luxurious yacht near the Galápagos Islands.

Tollesbury

The centre of the sign shows the yacht 'Endeavour II' which was the 1937 British challenger for the America's Cup while on the left is depicted the fishing smack 'Sallie'.

Tom Slingsby

In December 2013 Slingsby is a crew member aboard racing supermaxi yacht Perpetual Loyal in the 2013 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, with his other celebrity crew members, Karl Stefanovic, Larry Emdur, Phil Waugh, Jude Bolton and Guillaume Brahimi.

Udo Schütz

Thus, „Container“ was the name of his yacht with which he in 1993, together with Pinta and Rubin XII, won the Admiral's Cup for Germany.

USS Enterprise

Enterprise, a J-class racing yacht that won the America's Cup in 1930.

Vincenzo Onorato

A passionate sailor himself, Onorato likes to race hard himself having competed in the Melges 32, Mumm 36, Farr 30, Farr 40 and X-41 World Championships as helmsman to name a few.

William Burgess

William Starling Burgess (1878–1947), American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect

William Umpleby Kirk

Kirk's reputation grew when he photographed Queen Victoria's yacht HMY Alberta at a speed of 10 knots entering Cowes Harbour; this is said to be one of the first British photographs of a vessel in motion.

Württembergischer Yacht Club

This move followed the establishment of Yacht clubs in the neighboring kingdoms of Bavaria, Austria and Baden at the time.


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