Newport Bermuda Race, UOMIE, #817, 1958

safety negative

2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the Newport to Bermuda Race in 1958. Long shot of several of the Class C sailing vessels racing, all starboard beam or starboard bow views. In the foreground is the sloop, UOMIE, sail #817, with sails running free and the spinnaker out if control with Warren Brown hanging from the halyard. Directly in back is FLIRT, sail #NA9, a Naval Academy participant (DS: Luders; BU: Southwest, 1943), with a striped sail and following FLIRT is sail #414, SITZMARK IV (DS: Mason; BU: Hoernke, 1957). Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "159765F / NEWPORT-BERMUDA 1958 / [Box] 5650". Handwritten: "Uomie #817 Geoffrey Pattinson". Typed caption in with neg.: "159765F - One hundred yards along the course the sailor is still hanging aloft as two mates try to haul the halyard in." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection