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The Newport Harbor Yacht Club, 2020. The Newport Harbor Yacht Club, 2018 Newport Harbor Yacht Club Baldwin Cup April 6, 2014 Racing yachts at NHYC's main dock 2013 Ahmanson Cup Regatta yacht Zapata II winner of the 2014 Zapata II won best in class (sailing boats over 50 feet) at the first annual Newport Beach Wooden Boat Festival.
Top companies in the San Diego metro area on the 2012 Inc. 5000 This page was last edited on 3 February 2025, at 20:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Ackerman Boat Company built small barges in Newport Harbor working with Star D Iron Works, in Santa Ana. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Ackerman Boat Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Army Harbor Tugboats and US Navy Landing Craft Mechanized Model LCM Mark 3. Clarence Ackerman started the ...
In 1980 the original owner, Ward Proescher, sold the business to Terry MacRae and P. Michael Watson. Proescher later went on to start a competing charter yacht company in the Bay Area, Commodore Cruises. By acquiring existing charter yacht companies, Hornblower was able to expand into San Diego in 1984, followed by Newport Beach in 1987.
The company was founded by Jon Williams and Bill Smith in 1971 when they purchased the tooling for the Newport series of boats from Elgin National Industries of New York, who owned Newport Boats. Capital Yachts put the Newport series back into production and also had new boats designed by American naval architect Gary Mull and the Canadian ...
The formation of the surfing spot known as the Wedge was a by-product of alterations to the Newport Harbor, which were completed and re-dedicated on May 23, 1936. Before those renovations and extensions of the West Jetty wall, the Newport Harbor was the premier surfing spot on the entire west coast of North America. [3]
YMS-1-class minesweeper. Campbell Industries built YMS-1-class minesweepers for the United States Navy in 1942 and 1943. The ships had a displacement of 270 tons, a length of 136 ft 0 in (41.45 m), a beam of 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m), a draft of 10 ft (3.0 m), and a top speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).
The race was created by sailors at the Balboa Yacht Club on Bayside Drive, and the Newport Harbor Yacht Club. Humphrey Bogart was among the original instigators of the first official race in 1948. He sailed into the local history books along with Spencer Tracy and Errol Flynn (each in their boats). As one of the largest sailboat races in