Chips

Year: 1913 | Shipyard: Grave Yard US
Naval Architect: William Starling Burgess
Sailing Rig: Gaff Sloop | LOA: 16,2
Past Participations: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021

“Chips is a boat designed by American Starling Burgess in 1913, the same architect who signed Ranger, and other famous America’s Cuppers. Interestingly, those “P Class” look very much like J Class boats because they were designed applying the same Universal Rule created by Nathanael Herreshoff in 1903. When she was launched, the boat was called Onda III, but a banker from N.Y. got her in 1926 after winning a poker match, and renamed her Chips, like “poker chips.”