Crossing the Finish Line, Block Island Race Week, 1971

color slide (35mm only)

PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island
1971-06
color slide; Kodachrome; cardboard mount
35mm

35 mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons June 1971. Image of sloops crossing the finish line at Block Island Race Week showing port quarter views. From left to right: AQUARIUS, sail #2663, a 41' C&C Yachts designed, Lindsey Plastics, Ltd. built Newport 41 racing sloop (built circa 1969 in Gloucester, VA), ARROW, sail #10078, a 35' C&C Yachts designed, Hinterhoeller built Redwing 35 sloop (built circa 1971 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.), TERRAPIN, sail #1579, a 35"5' Bill Lapworth designed, Jensen Marine built Cal 36 sloop (built circa 1966 in Costa Mesa, CA), unidentified sloop sail #?59? possibly CHARISMA #2459 or VAMOOSE #3795 or RHUMB LINE #2959, then SONNET, sail #4421, a 42' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Derecktor Shipyard built Gulfstream 42 auxiliary sloop (built circa 1970 in Mamaroneck, NY), BONES, sail #4747, a 41' Herreshoff sloop (built circa 1970). In he background is a bluff and houses. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 212. Handwritten on negative frame: "192183 / FINISH AT BLOCK / ISLAND / 634" and stamped in purple: “PHOTO BY/ STANLEY ROSENFELD”. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

ARROW sloop; TORRAPIN sloop; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, #2663; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, #4747
BOX.1984.187.126.30.9

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection