Internationals Crossing Tacks

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
1941-09-07
Kodak safety film
5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 7, 1941. Image of 33' Bjarne Aas International One Design sloops ELSELAN (built 1937 in Frederikstad, Norway), THREE BELLES (built 1936 in Frederikstad, Norway), and JICK (built 1937 in Fredrikstad, Norway) underway. Visible in image: starboard quarter view of JICK on port close haul, heeled over, rail down flying owner Stephen L. Szczotkowski's private signal- red swallow tail with white sideways M outline of point, minus upper leg, and a blue slash on upper point- flying from mainsail, crossing to stern of ELSELAN (7) and THREE BELLES (IC/22) on starboard close hauled tacks heeled over rail down under mainsails and jib, land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection , image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 144. Information on original negative sleeve: "Intnl. Class tacking."

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #7; UNIDENTIFID sloop, Int. One Design, #22
1984.187.102650F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar