Crossing Spinnaker Tacks, 1938

safety negative; black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont; USA, Long Island Sound
1938-05-30
safety film, AGFA
7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on May 30, 1938. Image of 33' Bjarne Aas designed and built International One Design sloop ALLEGRA (built pre-1937 in Fredrikstad, Norway) crossing tacks with 70' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Henry B. Nevin built 12 meter class sloop NYALA (built 1938 in City Island, N.Y.) on Long Island Sound off Larchmont, N.Y. Visible in image: starboard bow view of ALLEGRA (IC/13) running downwind under marconi-rigged mainsail out to starboard and spinnaker, flying Larchmont Yacht Club burgee- blue and white vertical striped triangle- on mainmast crossing tacks with NYALA (12/US12), seen from port bow, running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsail out to port and spinnaker, flying F.T. Bedford's private signal[?]- burgee divided into white top half and dark bottom half with dark B- on mainsail, other sails and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 129. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "87366F / MAY 30, 1938 / 4453" and handwritten: "12/12 Int 13 / HT / T / Y".

NYALA sloop, 12 meter, US #12; ALLEGRA sloop, Int. One Design, #13
1984.187.87366F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection