COURAGEOUS and AUSTRALIA, 1977

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island Sound
1977-09
35mm safety Kodak #5062
overall: 1 1/2 x 1 in.

35 mm safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in September of 1977. Image of 64.5' Johan Valentijn designed, Steven Ward built 12 meter class sloop AUSTRALIA (built in 1977 in Australia)and 65.5'Olin Stephens designed, Minneford Yacht Yard built 12 meter class sloop COURAGEOUS (built 1974 in City Island, NY) at America's Cup on Block Island Sound. Visible in image: starboard quarter view of AUSTRALIA (12/ KA5) and COURAGEOUS (12/US26) on port close reaches under marconi-rigged mainsails and genoas heeled over, rail down, ferry in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 238. Handwritten on negative sleeve: "9/ / 1977 / 192060 / AMERICA'S CUP/ 6A CUS".

1984.187.192060.6A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection