Off the Wind, 1937

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, MA, Buzzards Bay
1937
safety film, Eastman Kodak #1
overall: 7 x 5 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1937. Image of 135' Olin Stephens designed, Bath Iron Works built J class sloop RANGER (built 1937 in Bath, Me.), 127.5' W. Starling Burgess designed, Herreshoff built J class sloop RAINBOW (built 1934 in Bristol, R.I.), 130' Charles E. Nicholson designed, Camper & Nicholson Yard built J class cutter ENDEAVOUR (built 1934 in Gosport, England), 128.5' Camper & Nicholson J class sloop ENDEAVOUR II (built 1936 in Gosport, England) and 126' Paine, Belknap & Skene designed, George Lawley & Son Corp. built J Class sloop YANKEE (built 1930 in Neponset, Mass.) at NYYC Cruise up Buzzards Bay, Mass.. Visible in image: starboard bow views of RANGER in foreground with RAINBOW and ENDEAVOUR visible under her mainsail and ENDEAVOUR II and YANKEE astern running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsails and spinnakers, other sails in distance. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 89 and 116 and Rousmaniere interview, WOODENBOAT, Sept/Oct, 1989. Typed on original negative sleeve: “RANGER leading J Class NYYC Cruise."

1984.187.83476F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider