Endeavour is a J-class yacht built for the 1934 America's Cup by Camper and Nicholson in Gosport, England. She was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was and launched in 1934 and won many races in her first season including against the J's Velsheda and Shamrock V. She failed in her America's Cup challenge against the American defender Rainbow but came closer to lifting the cup than any other until Australia II succeeded in 1983. Design Endeavour was designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson. Nicholson opted for a conservative hull shape, which was not tank-tested before construction. Construction was of steel throughout. Endeavour carried more winches than her competitor Rainbow, and they were four-speed mechanisms, against the two-speed winches on Rainbow. Endeavour pioneered the Quadrilateral genoa, a twin-clewed headsail offering great sail area and consequent power. Frank Murdoch, an aeronautical engineer who worked for Sopwith, helped design the rigging. Murdoch also designed an electrical indicator which provided the helmsman with a precise indication of the relative wind direction, which up to now had been approximated by observing a pennant at the top of the mast. Endeavour was originally fitted with a flexible boom that allowed the foot of the mainsail to bend into an aerodynamically efficient shape. The 1930 Cup winner Enterprise had demonstrated the advantage of allowing the foot to bend this way, albeit using a completely different mechanism (the "Park Avenue" boom). Endeavours flexible boom broke during trials and she sailed the 1934 regatta season with an ordinary, rigid boom. For the Cup races, she was fitted with a Park Avenue boom.

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Notable quotes

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.”
— James Allen, As A Man Thinketh, Visions and Ideals (1902)
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
— Confucius, Analects, § 6.20.
“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Ideals and Doubts", Collected Legal Papers (1937), p. 305
“He has called on the best that was in us. There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. “After you have done the best you can,” he used to say, “the hell with it.””
— Robert Kennedy, tribute to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. Read at Joseph Kennedy’s funeral by Senator Edward Kennedy, November 20, 1969. — Congressional Record, November 25, 1969, vol. 115, p. 35877
“And that the human being attains only what he strives for.”
— Quran 53:39
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
— George Santayana, in The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

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Overview

Endeavour is a J-class yacht built for the 1934 America's Cup by Camper and Nicholson in Gosport, England. She was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was and launched in 1934 and won many races in her first season including against the J's Velsheda and Shamrock V. She failed in her America's Cup challenge against the American defender Rainbow but came closer to lifting the cup than any other until Australia II succeeded in 1983. Design Endeavour was designed by Charles Ernest Nicholson. Nicholson opted for a conservative hull shape, which was not tank-tested before construction. Construction was of steel throughout. Endeavour carried more winches than her competitor Rainbow, and they were four-speed mechanisms, against the two-speed winches on Rainbow. Endeavour pioneered the Quadrilateral genoa, a twin-clewed headsail offering great sail area and consequent power. Frank Murdoch, an aeronautical engineer who worked for Sopwith, helped design the rigging. Murdoch also designed an electrical indicator which provided the helmsman with a precise indication of the relative wind direction, which up to now had been approximated by observing a pennant at the top of the mast. Endeavour was originally fitted with a flexible boom that allowed the foot of the mainsail to bend into an aerodynamically efficient shape. The 1930 Cup winner Enterprise had demonstrated the advantage of allowing the foot to bend this way, albeit using a completely different mechanism (the "Park Avenue" boom). Endeavours flexible boom broke during trials and she sailed the 1934 regatta season with an ordinary, rigid boom. For the Cup races, she was fitted with a Park Avenue boom.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Endeavour is a J-class yacht built for the 1934 America's Cup by Camper and Nicholson in Gosport, England. She was built for Thomas Sopwith who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was and launched in 1934 and won many races in her first season including against the J's Velsheda and Shamrock V. She failed in her America's Cup challenge against the American defender Rainbow but came closer to lifting the cup than any other until Australia II succeeded in 1983.

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Notable quotes

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.”
— James Allen, As A Man Thinketh, Visions and Ideals (1902)
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
— Confucius, Analects, § 6.20.
“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Ideals and Doubts", Collected Legal Papers (1937), p. 305
“He has called on the best that was in us. There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. “After you have done the best you can,” he used to say, “the hell with it.””
— Robert Kennedy, tribute to his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. Read at Joseph Kennedy’s funeral by Senator Edward Kennedy, November 20, 1969. — Congressional Record, November 25, 1969, vol. 115, p. 35877
“And that the human being attains only what he strives for.”
— Quran 53:39
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
— George Santayana, in The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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