"MAYFLOWER of Boston: America’s Cup Defender, 1886"

By Russ Kramer

Oil on Linen, 18" x 30" 2010

MAYFLOWER was the second of three successful America’s Cup defenders designed by Edward Burgess, a brilliant young Boston designer who would as a result of these successes find fame as one of the nations’s leading architect of racing yachts. She is shown shortening sail with GALATEA in the background; the challenger, owned by the eccentric Mr. and Mrs. Henn, lived aboard with a menagerie of animals. She was no match for the much faster and more professional MAYFLOWER.

This painting is currently on display with the American Society of Marine Artist’s 15th National Exhibition.