History
A.C.E. or Ace of Kings was one of 11 Starling Burgess designed, Abeking Rasmussen built Eight Metres. They were all together designed and built for the New York Yacht Club as Olympic Contenders. Out of these 11 Eights, 4 still exist, 2 still race and 2 are for sale as a restoration project layed up in Ontario.By an E-mail from Doug Peterson to John Lammerts van Bueren July 8th 2001JohnCall me about the Burgess eight. They were going to cut it up next week.I sent my lawyer to buy it (probably for free? ) and start paying for storage.Send phone number and email addresses of the Toronto lake customers so we can find an owner.I have lots of digital photos to send them.Doug2024 - She is still alive and for sale as a restoration project.Yard - Abeking & Rasmussen (Bremen, Germany)Designer - Starling BurgessBuilt For - New York Yacht Club - 11 were built 4 survied A.C.E. - Aurora - Wyvern - JackeenOlympic ContenderOriginal Name - A.C.E First Owner - Adrian Iselin (NY)Needs Full RestorationComes with original wood mastCradle Included.Lying - Caledon, Ontario