A. Cary Smith

Shipwright, exhibited marine painter, then yacht designer — and the man in whose office Edson B. Schock learned the trade.

Two careers

Trained as a shipwright to the mid-1860s; a recognised marine painter from 1867 to 1877, studying under M. F. H. de Haas and exhibiting at the National Academy of Design; full-time yacht design after 1877

Measurer

New York Yacht Club, 1874–82; Seawanhaka Corinthian, 1875–83

Pupil

Edson B. Schock began as his apprentice draftsman about 1899, before opening his own practice in 1900

• early 1870sVindex — iron cutter
• 1881Mischief — America's Cup defender
• 1902Meteor III — racing schooner for Kaiser Wilhelm II