Stephen J. Renard (b.1943)
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Stephen J. Renard (b.1943)

Westward and Adela in close quarters racing off the Needles

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Stephen J. Renard (b.1943)
Westward and Adela in close quarters racing off the Needles
signed 'Stephen J Renard' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.)
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Lot Essay

Westward was a large racing schooner built by Nat Herreshoff in 1910. Bought soon afterwards by a syndicate of German businessmen who renamed her Hamburg, she was sold back into American ownership after the Great War and resumed her original name. In 1924 she was bought by T.B.F. Davis and thereafter became Britannia's regular challenger at Cowes. Over the years Davis and King George V developed a fierce though friendly rivalry and Westward became so beloved by her owner that he, like the King, stipulated that his boat was to be sunk after his death.

Adela, designed by William C. Storey and built by Fay & Co. at Southampton, was owned by Mr. Claud Cayley of Tunbridge Wells. Registered at 224 tons gross, she measured 109 feet in length with a 22 foot beam and made her debut at the Kiel Regatta shortly after she was launched on 29th April 1903. Sold by Mr. Cayley just prior to the Great War, she was renamed Heartease by a subsequent owner in 1924 and was still afloat after the Second World War.

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