This book is the result of painstaking historical researches amongst the origin of these large cutters exclusive documents and trace Mariquita's fate since the day she was built by William Fife III's yard at Fairlie. This English Edition with a format of 30 x 30 cm, 235 pages printed on Vergé paper, bound in black silk "Orient" with silver marked title is presented in a silkscreen library case and with a separate folder presenting two full size drawings of William Fife III; limited to 400 copies worldwide numbered from 401 to 800. Mariquita 1911 presents the architects, the builders, the owners, the skippers and the crews of this mythical class. Dr Daniel Charles provides us with an in-depth analysis on how the rating rules improved over the years. John Leather presents the crews and the skippers who took part in this golden period of European yachting. Dr. William Collier reveals the secrets of the Fife method while Duncan Walker opens its album of Mariquita's restoration and rebirth. Also, Jim Thom the present skipper narrates his management and exhilarating experience through outstanding pictures which gave insight into its manning. Then, the crew members narrate their lively and exhilarating testimony of sailing experience on Mariquita. The book is illustrated with unpublished photographs as well as works by some of the greatest maritime painters (Martin Mackrill, Guy l'Hostie, Brian J Jones, Louis Paul, Montaigue Dawson, Jamie Medlin). For the very first time, the calculation book and plans by William Fife III, Alfred Mylne, Charles Nicholson, Max Oertz complete the technical descriptions.