EAGLE, #US60, Louis Vuitton Cup, 1986

color slide (35mm only)

PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES
Rosenfeld, Stanley Z.
Australia, Western Australia, Fremantle
1986-12-09
safety film, Kodachrome; cardboard mount
overall: 1.5 x 1 mm.

35 mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on December 9, 1986. Image of the 12 meter sloop EAGLE during the time of the Louis Vuitton Cup race off Fremantle, Australia. Visible in image: cropped starboard bow view of EAGLE on a starboard close reach under mainsail and genoas as the hull is lost under a wall of water as it smashes through waves with only the genoa is visible. EAGLE, #US60, was a 66' sloop, built in 1986 by Williams & Manchester of Newport, Rhode Island from designs by Johan Valentijn to be a potential defender for the America's Cup in 1987. Handwritten on slide mount: “EAGLE 2 257 12/9/86 / SL. 3 / #3” and stamped: "PHOTO © 1987 / STANLEY ROSENFELD / 18 / DEC 86 11". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Rosenfeld photographer. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 262.

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Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Z. Rosenfeld photographer