Club to thank for turning against the tastes of Thomas W Lawson. There is a third consequence of the


Independence incident. This is one of the very finest books every written on yachting history: The Lawson History of the Amer- ica’s Cup. Published in 1902 by Lawson himself, it is in part his ‘revenge by book’ with two of the 18 chapters taken up by his stubborn justifications of his campaign. Yet the rest of the book is one of the


classics of yachting history – an authorita- tive, handsomely written and illustrated history of the first 50 years of the world’s most famous yachting competition. Written by one of the best and most


knowledgeable yachting writers of that time, Winfield M Thompson, and pub- lished beautifully on oversize paper with many illustrations, the book known as ‘Lawson’s’ has for more than a century introduced sailors and other readers to this


spectacular event, many of them at a young age (as this author can testify). While many of the original 3,000 copies that Lawson distributed freely are in declining condition, reprints in other edi- tions are available today for low prices. Is it an irony that Thomas W Lawson’s


willful and often bizarre campaign to build his strange boat bears healthy fruit more than a century later? Perhaps, but I prefer to believe in sailors’ luck.


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