NINA, #2 and GESTURE, #102, Newport Bermuda Race, 1946

safety negative

7x5 in. Kodak negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the Newport to Bermuda Race in 1946. Image of the 59' schooner, NINA (DS: Burgess; BU: Bigelow, 1928), sail #2, and the 57' sloop, GESTURE (DS: S&S; BU: Quincy, 1941), sail #102, racing against each other in a strong wind. NINA is in the foreground in the center of the image and GESTURE, is to her left with both showing starboard quarter views and both on a starboard tack. Coming toward them, bow view, in the distance to the far right is an unidentified sloop. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "113849F / [Box] 4894." Typed: "NEWPORT BERMUDA 1946." Handwritten: "NINA - GESTURE." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection