SOUTHERN CROSS and COURAGEOUS in Mist, America's Cup 1974

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island Sound
1974-09
safety film, Kodak Plus X Pan film
35 mm

35 mm safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the America's Cup races in September of 1974. Image of the 67' Ben Lexcen designed, Alan Bond built 12 meter class sloop SOUTHERN CROSS (built 1974 in Australia) and the 65'6" Olin Stephens designed, Minneford Yacht Yard built 12 meter class sloop COURAGEOUS (built 1974 in City Island, NY) racing on Block Island Sound. Visible in image: port quarter views of "SOUTHERN CROSS" (KA4) and COURAGEOUS (12 / US 26) on a starboard close reach under marconi-rigged mainsail and genoa, a third sail is in the background in the fog. Handwritten on negative sleeve: "9/ /1974 / 191310 / AMERICA'S CUP / 9-CUS". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 232.

1984.187.191310.9A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection