The 129 ft sailing yacht you’re looking at is a J-Class named “Velsheda” and her tender or “support vessel” “Bystander”, spotted off of Greenwich, CT during the holiday weekend. J-Class sailing yachts are very few and far between and were mainly built in the UK or America. The reason they are considered “J-Class is because they conform to the specs of Nathanael Herreshoff’s Universal Rule, which determined a yachts eligibility to compete in the America’s Cup from 1914 to 1937. This particular J-

SVEA . SVEA is the newest J Class yacht, launched in January 2017, and at 143 ft (43.6 m) she has the longest overall length in the fleet. Her design originated in 1937 with Swedish Olympian Tore Holm and boatbuilder Gustav Plym, lay dormant due to World War II. Andre Hoek and Dutch partners revived and refined the plans using modern VPP analysis, and after a change of ownership the yacht was completed by Claasens and Vitters on a tight schedule for the 2017 J Class America’s Cup regatta. Combin

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