Genesta

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Type: Pungy

Year: 1885

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Location: Cambridge

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1	No image URL.							Genesta	P0001.011/01-1219
	2		8/13/1895	Genesta (Steamboat : 1895).			Geneota - (tug); 1498	Steamboats–New York (State).; Tugboats–New York (State).	Shows a port side view of a tugboat making way. Stanton's notebooks contain the following information about this item: "Aug. 13, 1895", "above Hell Gate"	MS0094/01-#1498
	3		9/1885				handwritten on mount: Genesta. 1st race America's Cup. Sept. 1885. J.S. Johnston, View & Marine Photo, N.Y.		Starboard view of the yacht racing.	MS0267/-01#08
	4		1885				J.S. Johnston, View & Marine Photo, N.Y.		View of captain and crew of Genesta on forward deck. The crew are wearing R.Y.S. sweaters.	MS0267/-01#09
	5		9/1885				handwritten on mount: Genesta getting underway. 1st race America's Cup. 1885. J.S. Johnston, View & Marine Photo, N.Y.		Bow view of the yacht getting started in the 1885 America's Cup race.	MS0267/-01#10
	6		1885				handwritten on mount: Genesta in dry dock. Brooklyn, L.I. 1885. J.S. Johnston, View & Marine Photo, N.Y.		Port bow view of the yacht in dry dock with men standing at the dry dock's base looking at her.	MS0267/-01#11
	7		9/1885				handwritten on mount: Genesta. 1st race America's Cup. Sept. 1885. J.S. Johnston, View & Marine Photo, N.Y.		View of several yachts underway in the first America's Cup race of 1885. Genesta is prominent in the center of the image.	MS0267/-01#12
	8		9/1885				handwritten on mount: Start 1st race, America's Cup. Genesta & Puritan Sept.1885.		Starboard side view of the yachts racing.	MS0267/-01#06
	9								NOTES: Howe Collection Catalogue # 87. Registered as a sloop-rigged yacht.	CL19185
	10								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Oil painting on canvas by James Edward Buttersworth depicting the first race of the 1885 America's Cup. The race occurred on September 14, 1885 between the American yacht Puritan (designer Edward Burgess gave the hull a new form featuring aspects of both a cutter and a sloop) and British cutter Genesta. The scene depicts the yachts rounding the Sandy Hook lightship. Genesta is positioned in the foreground with a dark hull (has a greenish cast), her sails are illuminated by sunlight streaming through dark clouds. Genesta has a gaff rig with a quadrilateral club topsail and is shown flying her jib, staysail and a jib topsail. She is flying a square burgee, white with a red saltire, from her topmast. The bow and port side of the Sandy Hook Lightship can be seen behind Genesta's bowsprit. The bow of another steamboat sits behind the lightship; this boat, or the lightship, is flying a rectangular red flag with an open rectangular square which indicates it is a stake boat or race committee boat. At the left, Puritan is shown having rounded the lightship and is in the process of raising its jib topsail in preparation for the next broad reach. Above Puritan's bowsprit, and peeking out between her sails is the corner of another American flag indicating a third steamboat is anchored near the lightship. To Puritan's left, two yachts flying national colors and unidentifiable burgees are visible. In the background at the right, several schooners and sloops are sailing away from the lightship. They are flying American national flags. Moderate seas with small whitecaps are depicted. The sky appears cloudy and possibly stormy. NOTES: [J. Willoz-Egnor, 2/7/2023] This painting came to the Museum in 2012 attributed to the 1886 race between Mayflower and Galatea. While researching the event and how Buttersworth depicted the race I noticed that Galatea's hull is the wrong color (during the race her hull was white with a red streak along the foot of the rail). The vessel was also flying an unidentifiable burgee. My first thought was that the scene may show the 1885 race between Puritan and Genesta, but the line of schooners and sloops sailing away from the lightship in the background at the right made me wonder if the scene portrayed a New York Yacht Club regatta. I contacted America's Cup historian R. Steven Tsuchiya for his opinion and he provided the following thoughts. 1) The two boats in the foreground are not flying national flags/ensigns but the other boats in the picture are flying the U.S. flag. To him this suggested that the two boats in the foreground are competitors in a match race while the others are spectator or race committee boats. 2) The presence of the Sandy Hook Lightship means this race is using the New York Yacht Club course or another local/regional club course. 3) Given the rig and hull design, the boats are circa-1880s. [this confirmed our thoughts that the painting depicted one of the America’s Cup races that had occurred in the 1880s] 4) The black-hulled boat in the foreground has a quadrilateral club-topsail which the English often used. Americans also used them but not as often. 5) The private signal of the black boat is rectangular in shape which is an English-style. Americans tended to use swallowtail flags. Taking all of this into account, Steve also believes that the painting depicts the September 14, 1885 America's Cup match between Puritan and Genesta. The painting depicts the half-way point of the race, where Puritan is rounding the Sandy Hook Lightship and is heading back to the Lower Bay of New York Harbor. I asked Steven if it was possible the painting might depict a NYYC Regatta but he felt the national colors on the boats in the background suggests that those boats are not racing. I also asked Steve about the rectangular red flag with the white square that appears near the bow of the lightship and he told me this meant a vessel was a stake or race committee boat. Still curious about the number of sailing boats present in the scene I returned to the original newspaper accounts and discovered that it was typical to have a large fleet of schooners, sloops and steamboats follow the race boats around the course. While the steamboats went all the way to the Sandy Hook Lightship, stood in a line to the north of the vessel and waited for the race boats to arrive. The sailing craft did not have time to make it all the way to the lightship so they turned around at some point and headed back to see the race boats turn at the next buoy. The steamboats watched the two boats round the lightship before heading back to the next buoy. This explains the line of sailing craft streaming away from the lightship at the right. Reading the original accounts of the two race days also confirmed that the painting showed the first race of the 1885 series. The second race held on September 16th took place on a different race course that didn't include the rounding of the Sandy Hook Lightship. NOTES: [J. Willoz-Egnor, 2/8/2023] Buttersworth has depicted a number of features inaccurately in this painting: 1) the private signal depicted on Genesta's mast is incorrect [looking at a number of paintings of the 5th and 6th Cup matches Buttersworth flips between pennant and rectangular flags and red crosses and saltires, 2) Genesta is not shown with a black hull and copper bottom, 2) Puritan is not depicted with a dark hull, her hull had been potleaded up to her plank sheer and was white above [potleading or blackleading was the process of tarring or lead-painting the hull and then polishing it to produce a smooth, friction-free hull, "slippery surface for racing"], 3) Puritan appears foreshortened, and 4) the deck structures of both vessels are inaccurate. NOTES: [J. Willoz-Egnor, 2/8/2023] The New York Times of September 15, 1885, page 1 reports the course sailed as from Buoy No. 18, off Owl’s Head, at Bay Ridge, through the Narrows, across the Lower Bay to and around Buoys Nos. 10 and 8-½, and out by Sandy Hook to the Sandy Hook Lightship, and return over the same course, finishing at Buoy No. 15, just below Fort Wadsworth [a total of 38 statute miles]. NOTES: The lightship depicted is LV-16 stationed at Sandy Hook.	CL30146
	11	No image URL.		Puritan (Yacht); Genesta (Yacht)				Yacht racing–Rules.	Supplementary and final report of the "America's Cup" Committee and report of Racing Committee upon the Puritan--Genesta races for the "America's Cup"	LB3886
	12								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Lithograph in colors (Chromolithograph). DUPLICATE NOTES: One (1) duplicate copy deaccessioned and sent to auction on February 21, 1980.	CL18476
	13								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Process print in colors (collotype). ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: For later history of PURITAN and conversion to the BRAVA" or Cape Verde Island - New Bedford packet see: Rudder, N.Y., March, 1910, p. 129-135. Winfield M. Thompson, "PURITAN at Twenty-Five". See Yachting, April-May, 1936, "The Fate of the Cup Defenders," by William U. Swan. Part II, May 1936, p. 44, 45.	CL18999
	14	No image URL.		New York Yacht Club–Records and correspondence; Genesta (Yacht); Galatea (Yacht)					Report of Committee of Arrangements and correspondence with J. Beavor-Webb, esq. (representing Sir Richard Sutton, Bart, and Lieutenant Henn, R.N.) : __in relation to matches with the "Genesta" and "Galatea" for the "America's" Cup	LB3888
	15		1885				handwritten on mount: Brenton Reef Challenge Cup. won by Genesta in America 1885.		Close view of the trophy for the Brenton Reef Challenge race in 1885. won by Genesta. This is one of two photographs on page 13.	MS0267/-01#13-B
	16		1885				handwritten on mount: Cape May Challenge Cup. won by Genesta in America 1885.		Close view of the trophy for the Cape May Challenge race in 1885, won by Genesta. This is one of two photographs on page 13.	MS0267/-01#13-A
	17								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Photographic process print in black and white. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: PURITAN VESSEL TYPE: CUTTER YACHT, AMERICAN SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY BUILDER LOCATION: SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SHIP'S DESIGNER: EDWARD BURGESS VESSEL LAUNCHED: May 1885 SERVICE DATES: 1885-1925 VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 94' O.A. x 81'1" LWL X 22'7" BEAM X 8'8" DRAFT VESSEL HISTORY: Winner of two races for America's Cup against the English cutter GENESTA at New York on September 14 and 16, 1885.	CL9956
	18	No image URL.				Mozambique.		Portuguese–Africa, East.	In the wake of Da Gama : __the story of Portuguese pioneers in East Africa 1497-1729 __with an introd. by Elspeth Huxley	LB29031
	19								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Celluloid button on pin. Starboard bow view of the sloop PURITAN under sail. VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: PURITAN VESSEL TYPE: CUTTER YACHT, AMERICAN SHIPBUILDER: GEORGE LAWLEY & SONS CO. BUILDER LOCATION: SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS SHIP'S DESIGNER: EDWARD BURGESS VESSEL LAUNCHED: May 1885 VESSEL DIMENSIONS: 94' O.A. x 81'1" LWL X 22'7" BEAM X 8'8" DRAFT VESSEL HISTORY: Winner of two races for America's Cup against the English cutter GENESTA at New York on September 14 and 16, 1885.	CL13417
	20	No image URL.							VESSEL INFORMATION - VESSEL NAME: RAINBOW SERVICE DATES: 1934-ca 1940 VESSEL NAME: GALATEA SERVICE DATES: 1885- ca 1912 VESSEL NAME: SHAMROCK II SERVICE DATES: 1901 - ca. 1910 VESSEL NAME: SHAMROCK IV SERVICE DATES: 1914 - ca. 1924	CL10081
	21								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Mixed media painting (acrylic, watercolor, oil). The image is a complex collage of images related to the America’s Cup from 1851 to 1887 created by artist Werner Claussen. The top half of the image documents scenes related to the 1851 race and the bottom half includes scenes from the 1870 to 1887 races. At the center is the America's Cup trophy. NOTES: The artwork was commissioned by the donor who intended to produce a limited edition print or poster. Werner Claussen was born in Germany and taught at the Center for Creative Studies (CCS) and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He worked as a commercial artist for decades, and enjoyed many commissions from the automobile industry (he created a historical montage of Ford Motor Company’s racing history) and the Ford family. Accompanying the artwork is a black and white produced by Claussen as a comprehensive layout before completing the final work. Clients typically spent $6000 for a work of this size and complexity and Claussen wanted to ensure there were no surprises at any stage. The differences in the final art from the photostat are refinements based upon Claussen’s judgment of the composition of the elements and on his own research as the work unfolded. Clients typically provided research for the elements included in one of Claussen’s complex historical artworks, but they usually did not interfere with the artist’s composition as he was considered a “master of composition.” NOTES: Scenes depict the following races: 1851: The yacht America defeats the fifteen vessels belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. 1870 (1st): The New York Yacht Club’s Magic (owned by Franklin Osgood) defeats the Royal Thames Yacht Club’s Cambria (owned by James Ashbury). 1871 (2nd): The New York Yacht Club’s Columbia (owned by Franklin Osgood) and Sappho (owned by Co. W. P. Douglas) defeats the Royal Harwich Yacht Club’s Livonia (owned by James Ashbury). Columbia won the first and second, Livonia won the third race, and Sappho won the fourth and fifth races. 1876 (3rd): The New York Yacht Club’s Madeleine (owned by James S. Dickerson) defeats the Royal Canadian Yacht Club’s Countess of Dufferin (owned by Major Charles Gifford and syndicate). 1881 (4th): The New York Yacht Club’s Mischief (owned by Joseph Busk) defeats the Bay of Quinte Yacht Club’s (Canada) Atalanta (owned by Alexander Cuthbert). 1885 (5th): The New York Yacht Club’s Puritan (owned by J. Malcolm Forbes and General Charles J. Paine and syndicate) defeats the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Genesta (owned by Sir Richard Sutton). 1886 (6th): The New York Yacht Club’s Mayflower (owned by General Charles J. Paine) defeats the Royal Northern Yacht Club’s Galatea (owned by Lt. William Henn RN). Henn and his wife lived aboard Galatea and raced with several dogs, a lemur and a monkey named Peggy who was an active participant in the race. 1887 (7th): The New York Yacht Club’s Volunteer (owned by General Charles J. Paine) defeats the Royal Clyde Yacht Club’s Thistle (owned by James Bell and syndicate).	CL31284
	22								First photograph is of Gertrude 80. Other vessels pictured are Chazalie, Czarina 505, Neptune 50, Miranda 122, Tara 40, Cetonia 200, Curtsey, Keepsake, Minnie 31, Genesta 80.	MS0267/-02.02