start Interclubs, port bow, starboard tacks, Larchmont Race Week, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1936-07-21
safety film, Eastman Kodak #90; emulsion recovered
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of Larchmont Race Week on July 21, 1936. Image of a Sound Interclub Race start with eight vessels racing in heavy winds with most vessels showing port bow views on a starboard tack. From left to right: #ISC25-AILEEN, #ISC6-NIXIE, #ISC19-SUSAN, #ISC10-NANCY, #ISC28-CIRRUS, #ISC unidentified, #ISC4-BARBARA, and #ISC1-ARIEL. Sound Interclub Class sloops were 28'9" and were built in 1926 by Henry B. Nevins, Inc. of City Island, New York from designs by Charles D. Mower. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "76168F / JUL 21 1936 / RACE WEEK 1936 / [Box] 4274". Handwritten: "Interclubs". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.76168F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection