Yacht Racing and SF Maritime Collections

Cover of Woodruff Minor's On The Bay

Encinal Yacht Club

 

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Highlights from our Collections on yachting in general:

• Ladies in Rigs: blog post about the San Francisco Yacht Club scrapbooks held by the Research Center.
• Nothing Sails Like an Old Bird (blog post about Bird Class boats)
• Yachting on the Bay 1859 to 2012

...and related to particular yachts:

• America: "Ship Model of the Schooner Yacht America" (Collections Corner article)
• America: "Model of the Racing Sloop Yacht America"
• Ara: Voyage account in the Research Center, featuring illustration of the Red-lined wrasse (blog post)
• Idler: Logbook linked to the Research Center collections
• Kathleen: "The Sloop Kathleen Joins the Collections" (Collections Corner article)
• Mab: On the yacht and its trophies in our collections
• Volunteer: Defended the America's Cup in 1887
• Whisper: The yacht Whisper and the Hal Roth Papers (blog post)