The Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre, in Flensburg, N Germany, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the American schooner America and the birth of the America´s Cup. Opening on August 22nd – the date America won her later-to-be eponymous cup, the exhibition has been put together with some of the heavyweights of classic yachting today.

In build: Sandy Lee’s model of Reliance is a 1:6 true replica

Sandy Lee at the Herreshoff museum in Bristol RI

“With generous loans and help from our lenders and friends Prada, the BMW Group, Bill Lynn and the Herreshoff Marine Museum/ America´s Cup Hall of Fame, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Emirates Team New Zealand, Challenger of Record ( COR ) 36, Elizabeth Meyer, Bruno Troublé, Jacques Taglang, Eric Hall, Arthur Lee, Sir Michael Fay, John Lammerts van Bueren, Thorsten Conradi, Russel Green, Larry Keating, Bill Koch, Henk Buitenhuis and many others, the Robbe & Berking Yachting Heritage Centre is able to present exhibits, images and films many of which have never been accessible to the public before,” announced its curator Oliver Berking.

“Next to many other exhibits you will find one of the six copies of the Auld Mug itself and a 1:6 scale model of the Reliance – the largest America´s yacht ever – made by Sandy Lee at the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island.”

The America´s Cup: The history of the oldest and one of the most fascinating trophies in sports will run until January 15th 2020.

Main image: the model of Reliance, complete with her Action Men figures of Charlie Barr and the crew, with one of the copy-cups

Event website: yard.robbeberking.com