Sail Change, 1962

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1962
safety film, Kodak Plus X Pan Film
overall: 1 x 1 1/2 mm.

35 mm safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1962. Image of 70' Alan Payne designed, Lars Halvarsen and Sons built 12 meter class sloop GRETEL (built 1962 in Sydney, Australia) undersail. Visible in image: cropped port bow view of GRETEL on starboard tack, view of bow of vessel with crew changing jib, man at bow unhanks sail, while the rest of the crew holds the jib down, man on port side only has toehold on rail to keep him aboard. Handwritten on negative sleeve: "1962 / 173114". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p.179.

1984.187.173114.10

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection