WHAT A PREMONITION!
One year after the launching of his catamaran Amaryllis (1876) - the first modern cat ever designed and built - Nathanael Greene Herreshoff designed John Gilpin (1877)...
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| ©François Chevalier |
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| ©François Chevalier |
In the same time, this little racing catamaran, Duster (1877), sailed by one person was cruising right past front of the San Francisco Yacht Club's club house.
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135 years before the AC72 of the 2013 America's Cup first sails on the same stretch of water!
By Jacques Taglang
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