Yacht Club Lounge Wall Art

Yacht Club Lounge — 2 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. The America's Cup began in 1851 as a race around the Isle of Wight and remains the oldest trophy in international sport — a rivalry that once pitted Boston sloop Puritan against British cutter Genesta and later moved through J-Class extravagance, the 12 Metre decades that defined Newport and Auckland summers, and the hydrofoil revolution that made AC75 hulls skim above the water at speeds unimaginable to the J-Class era. The sloop rig — one mast, mainsail and headsail — became the default language of twentieth-century offshore cruising after designers like Olin Stephens helped prove that slender, well-balanced hulls could cross oceans fast and safely. Sparkman & Stephens shaped America's Cup and Bermuda Race history; Finland's Swan and Baltic yards later became shorthand for Baltic-build precision among sailors who care as much about joinery as jib sheets.

Updated 14 Jun 2026