People often think of yacht racing as a ‘gentleman’s sport’ yet the first transatlantic race (December 1866) started, not as a well-conceived event but, on a bet when three men went out on the town and drank heavily enough to propose that first race. According to Sam Jefferson, author of Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic, tells The Daily Beast. “It was just, ‘We’re gonna do this race now because we’re rich and that’s what we do.’ Read More
