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Yacht club | Royal Yacht Squadron |
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Nation | United Kingdom |
Designer(s) | John Beavor-Webb |
Builder | D. and W. Henderson and Company, Glasgow, Scotland |
Launched | 1884 |
Owner(s) | Sir Richard Sutton |
Fate | Broken up in 1900 |
Racing career | |
Skippers | John Carter |
Notable victories |
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America's Cup | 1885 |
Specifications | |
Type | Cutter, converted to yawl |
Displacement | 141 tons |
Length |
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Beam | 4.57 m (15.0 ft) |
Draft | 4.09 m (13.4 ft) |
Genesta was the unsuccessful English challenger in the fifth America's Cup in 1885 against the American defender Puritan.