In 1876, Thomas J. Liptonopenedhisfirstgrocer's shop in his nativeGlasgow. This was the beginning of what would become one of the largest private fortunes ever built on tea.
To race aboard Mariquita is to travel back a century, when wealthy yachtsmen such as King George V and Sir ThomasLipton dueled through the summer on outsize boats that needed 20 sailors just to leave the dock.
