The Yacht Puritan and Genesta America's Cup 1885
Genesta was the unsuccessful English challenger in the fifth America's Cup in 1885 against the American defender Puritan. The cutter Genesta was designed by John Beavor-Webb and built by D. & H. Henderson & Company of Glasgow, Scotland in 1884, for owner Sir Richard Sutton of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. It was built of oak planking on a steel frame. Genesta was skippered by John Carter.
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