It was the last and greatest yacht race of a gilded age: the emperor of Germany, two British lords and eight American billionaires racing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to win a solid-gold trophy cup. In eleven of the finest, most opulent yachts ever built, they set an ocean racing record that has yet to be broken.
This is the story of the men, ships, dangers, international intrigue and triumph of the 1905 Kaiser's Cup transatlantic race-and foreshadows the events that would put an end to almost all of those who sailed in it.
