BARUNA and MANXMAN rounding Stratford Shoals Lighthouse during the New York Yacht Club Cruise, 1951

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1951-08-06 - 1951-08-09
safety film, Ansco
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons at the time of the New York Yacht Club Cruise, August 6th to the 9th in 1951. Image is a port bow view of BARUNA, #98, in the lead, and MANXMAN, #3, racing, both showing a port bow view, rounding Race Rock Lighthouse. BARUNA was a 72' yawl built in 1938 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard of Quincy, Massachusetts and designed by Sparkman & Stephens. MANXMAN, originally KATOURA, then BLACKSHEAR and then ARTEMIS was built as a 112' cutter in 1927 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island and was designed by Burgess, Rigg and Morgan, Ltd. She was later changed to an auxiliary yawl in 1936. Race Rock Light is a lighthouse built between 1871 and 1878 on Race Rock Reef, southwest of Fishers Island, New York. The reef is a dangerous set of rocks off the coast of Fishers Island on Long Island Sound and was the site of many shipwrecks. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "130501F / NYYC CRUISE / 1951 / [Box] 5174". Typed neg. sleeve info.: "Merit 8x10 copy 66922". Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Baruna + Manxman at Race Rock". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

BARUNA yawl; MANXMAN yawl
1984.187.130501F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection