Leaches, Florida 1969

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, FL
1969
safety film, Kodak Plus X Pan film
35 mm

35mm safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1969. Image of 46' Philip L. Rhodes designed, Herman Lund built auxiliary sloop CHEE CHEE V (built 1941 in Erie, Pa.), 41' Morgan sloop OBSESSION (built 1968 in Largo, FL) and 40' C&C Yachts designed, Belleville Marine Yard built Crusader 40 sloop QUE PASA (built circa 1968 in Belleville, ON) at a 1969 SORC race in Florida. Visible in image: cropped starboard quarter views of "CHEE CHEE V / MAMARONECK NY", QUE PASA (2515) and "OBSESSION / CHARLESTON" (M / 14 / 2090) on starboard close reaches under mainsails and genoas lined up in a row, so that the leaches make a pattern, in the background is a cabin cruiser. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 210. Handwritten on negative sleeve: "1969 / 186212F / Florida".

OBSESSION sloop, #2090; CHEE CREE V sloop; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, #2515
1984.187.186212.8A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection