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[jewing]

If there were a category for web-based photo essays, these would be up there:

http://forums.sailin...howtopic=136970

[viktor]

I've always liked this one.

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Of course I've always liked Cal 40s.

[mcsailor0303]

Surprised no one thought of this series:

it's one of my favourites...

The one and only item my wife let me hang in our house! Love that painting!

I really like this one that was snapped of us racing in the gorge this last summer -

[boomer]

Volunteer at the Sandy Hook Lightship turning mark during the America's Cup in the fall of 1887 (Library of Congress image)

[Bob Perry]

I'll take that rowboat.

[KC64000]

Evergreen

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[boomer]

The image on top is one of my favorite photos by sailing bud, Hobot off Marrowstone Island during the Race to the Straits....just as we're entering the spin cycle of a small eddy on the north end of Marrowstone Island,with enough room for about seven boats to circle with room,nine boats with hardly any room to tack and jibe....a drag race by the fleet to get there and wait for the tide to turn.....we were one of the first there, if not the first, can't remember, maybe Hobot does.....then there was three,then there was six and then seven boats in the small eddy...occasionally someone brave enough to jump in, then nine boats....more boats tried,but ;like a game of musical chairs,someone kept getting spit out....the tide pushed the fleet back..maybe it was 45 minutes we were in spin cycle,you loose track of time when your spinning that fast....it was tack,jibe,tack,jibe,tack,jibe,tack,jibe like forever...don't know how Hobot got all the pics,cause he got more...I don't think Hobot stopped for 45 minutes,tack,run to leeward rail,skirt the sail,run back,jibe,take a pic,rinse and repeat gawd knows how many times....I remember saying,"forget skirting the sail,your making me dizzy" and I think he finally did.



Fleet hitting the wall of the tide and being pushed back....the sail is the boat on our ass in the spin cycle





Mark Brink's son at the helm of Ladybug, joins the spin cycle.

[DickDastardly]

Looks a lot better from off the boat. I was about 10 miles ahead of them at the time seeing 60 plus regularly and frequent beam on rollers 30 feet high. It was a white-out at seal level. So many awesome shots from that race. And, we can thank that race for the invention of those extra fast orange storm sails.

[blisster]

through fog/low cloud leaving Rio is a keeper but I can't find either!

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[musicman]

Do models count?

[jesposito]

Now that has to be the best all time photo!

[boomer]

Another shot of Susanne by Beken

[boomer]

Westward in 1910 when Charlie Barr was skipper.

[boomer]

Lulworth and Westward in 1910

[boomer]

Lulworth

[boomer]

Columbia in 1899

[boomer]

Rainbow in 1937 by Rosenfeld

[boomer]

Shamrock 1908

[Evo]

Looks a lot better from off the boat. I was about 10 miles ahead of them at the time seeing 60 plus regularly and frequent beam on rollers 30 feet high. It was a white-out at seal level. So many awesome shots from that race. And, we can thank that race for the invention of those extra fast orange storm sails.

you were there by yourself? remarkable!

[EarthBM]

There are so many...Carlo Borlenghi has shot some great images in the modern era...

'best yachting image' and you posted a photo of a fucking cloud?

Get some glasses fuckwad, there's a sailboat in the picture. I like it, it makes the boat seem so small and insignificant, it's stunning!

I wanted to buy it and print on canvas. Apparently some joint called "Rolex" got to it first, not for sale now...

[DickDastardly]

That photo makes me very sad given how this boat is looking right now.

[JimC]

Beken tend to be very careful (to say the least, not to mention expensive) about their copyright. Are you sure their photos should be being posted here?

[SPORTSCAR]

Looks a lot better from off the boat. I was about 10 miles ahead of them at the time seeing 60 plus regularly and frequent beam on rollers 30 feet high. It was a white-out at seal level. So many awesome shots from that race. And, we can thank that race for the invention of those extra fast orange storm sails.

you were there by yourself? remarkable!

Rags & Styx, nice juxtaposition Evo

[SPORTSCAR]

That photo makes me very sad given how this boat is looking right now.

Remember her for the good times. Somewhere out there there is a similar shot of Casablanca doing much the same thing. I saw it once but can't remember when or where. In anyones archive here?

[boomer]

Hobot & Harley

[mad]

Always liked this one.

[boomer]

To me there's nothing quite like watching her up on her foils at speed.

[HILLY]

I'm trying to find a pic of Icefire or ozfire launching off a wave in the Sydney to Hobart in around '92. I'm guessing it was by Bennett, but I can't find it on his website. From memory if was the cover of Australian sailing a few months after the race. Any help?

There are 2 photos of Icefire from '92 Hobart, they are in his book, Ocean Classics.

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[HILLY]

2nd one from Ocean Classics.

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[boomer]

The way cotton stretches, wonder how often the sails had to be re-cut each season ?

Probably not recut too much. Stretching new sails was a big deal, though, and drying them out when they got wet (a bigger problem with smaller boats).

From the same book: Westward was racing with a complement of 31, which interinstingly included the sailmaker-foreman and one aid, whether that means recuts is debatable as the crew also included the Rolls-Royce chauffeur so that he be always available

I would imagine the sailmaker-foreman, his aid and others were quite busy.

Some excerpts from a letter Charlie Barr wrote to Nat Herreshoff, from the L. Francis Herrshoff Reader....This is just talking about the main'sl ...

The sails have had usage with strong wind and rain, and although we slacked them up on every possible occasion, they have stretched badly. The main luff got above the strut, and I had it cut four inches along the foot and the corners cut off on the leach. It was out on the foot and head and very baggy, so I had four inches more taken out of the middle. This was before we started racing. Now it is so large that it has to be cut again off the head six inches at the throat, and a foot off the peak, and the corners of the leach trimmed again.

[DaveK]

Columbia in 1899

WTF happens when that boom hits the water?

[boomer]

[boomer]

[Ajax]

Rainbow in 1937 by Rosenfeld

Incredible. If it weren't for the cotton, mitre-cut sails, I would have guessed this to be a modern yacht taken in B&W. The design is timeless.

[Shaggy]

Columbia in 1899

WTF happens when that boom hits the water?

From Charlie's quotes above it looks like you just cut a couple feet off the top and pull her up higher........

[Mike in CT]

Westward in 1910 when Charlie Barr was skipper.

which sails should we put up?

All of them damit!

[barefoot children]

Can't show images here, but find "The art of the boat" photos from the Rosenfeld collection published by Mystic Seaport museum
ISBN 0-939511-12-6
75 pages of classic stuff

[us7070]

Westward in 1910 when Charlie Barr was skipper.

I'm just amazed by trying to imagine the amount of hard physical labor that must have been involved in sailing a boat like this to it's full potential.

[Peenstone]

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My wallpaper.

[boomer]

Can't show images here, but find "The art of the boat" photos from the Rosenfeld collection published by Mystic Seaport museum
ISBN 0-939511-12-6
75 pages of classic stuff

Permission to view, use, and copy information, media, sound and images for personal use delivered from this World Wide Web server is hereby granted, provided:

• The item is used for informational purposes only.
  
• The item is used for non-commercial purposes only.

[Nick G]

Love Machine taking green water in the SORC / Gulf Stream. Always one of my favorites. Don't have it to share however.

[Elliot7]

Love these shots. So I was wondering, how would you gybe a boat like this (or the others), or did they?

[Anonymous Anarchist]

Can't show images here, but find "The art of the boat" photos from the Rosenfeld collection published by Mystic Seaport museum
ISBN 0-939511-12-6
75 pages of classic stuff

Permission to view, use, and copy information, media, sound and images for personal use delivered from this World Wide Web server is hereby granted, provided:

• The item is used for informational purposes only.
  
• The item is used for non-commercial purposes only.

Thanks Boomer you da man!!

"The problem with internet references is that it's difficult to check the source."
Abraham Lincoln 1861

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[Y-M Tanton]

Love machine sequence 1-2.
Was aboard, blue foul weather gear. Wet ridet all night.
TYD#744. Leutwiler gave me the prints. They are on my office wall. Reminds me to design good strong boats.
www.tantonyachtdesign.blogspot.com

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[mcsailor0303]

That thing is pushing some water! WAY Cool shot!

[SHNOOL]

Very happy to see Defender, Columbia, and Volunteer all listed in these.
Valkyrie II -

Columbia-


Names of my servers here at work... America, Columbia, Mischief, ValkyrieII, Volunteer, Magic, Vigilant, Resolute, and Reliance. It took several years before someone here picked up on it, and then they had to google it to figure it out.

[SPORTSCAR]

Westward in 1910 when Charlie Barr was skipper.

I'm just amazed by trying to imagine the amount of hard physical labor that must have been involved in sailing a boat like this to it's full potential.

Lots of burley Scandinavian crew provided the manpower for many of the "big" boats. They called it Norwegian Steam.

[boomer]

Sailor Kjell Magnus Økland has been working on a project interviewing and collecting pictures from relatives and those who remember.

The Norwegian Steam project will culminate in a coffee table book and documentary.

[Presuming Ed]

Love these shots. So I was wondering, how would you gybe a boat like this (or the others), or did they?

I believe - lower the spinnaker. Spinnaker poles were frequently stored up the mast, so hoist that. Centre the main (no main winch!), New runner on, gybe the boat, east main and old runner. Lower spinnaker pole, rehoist spinnaker.

Not exactly gybing on every shift.

[yahmes]

Got this of Atlantic this summer:

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[sonofasailor4x]

best topic ever. I remember that Love Machine photo from when I was a kid. Also, I remember a cool one of a Briton Chance boat, Equation, I think it was, looking like it was planing. (under control for the moment...)

[Black Sox]

That thing is pushing some water! WAY Cool shot!

Brings to mind the phrase about keeping the boat under the sails, or words to that effect.

[Ticonderoga33]

i fear i may be partial...

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[Coot's Away]

[Cavelamb]

One of my better ones...

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[nuttyrave]

You will find much better quality shots of John S. Johnston's photographs on Commons here:
http://commons.wikim...ohn_S._Johnston
However this one (of the cup defender Mayflower in 1891) he did not take, and it is my all time-favourite.
on a reach with everything up including fisherman:

[some dude]

This one has always been one of my favorites. We have a large color version in our club's bar.

That should be paired with the one taken just a few minutes later, finishing backwards

[Luke Piewalker]

I remember some awesome pictures of the Whitbread 60 Tokio planing towards the finish of the Whitbread RTW Race in 94.

[House Salad]

Now that has to be the best all time photo!

You mean that one and not this one?
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[Gouvernail]

Certainy this is among the best

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[tuf-luf]

Nice line-up of Soto 40s

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[Shibby]

There are so many great shot, both modern and vintage, it would be hard to call one the best. There are so many that are visually appealing.

I find vintage black and white to be particularly appealing for detail.

The Herreshoof designed Westward by Beken...click on for full size...

Shopping today at the HomeGood with Susan, they a canvas print 5x5 $129.00

[blurocketsmate]

[tuf-luf]

Love this SA classic!

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[tuf-luf]

Previous Hugo Boss planing.

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[tuf-luf]

Another SA classic...Sydney-Southport 2006.

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[tuf-luf]

While obviously doctored, still a great skiff image.

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[in_TO]

[in_TO]

[dacapo]

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[@last]

I remember some awesome pictures of the Whitbread 60 Tokio planing towards the finish of the Whitbread RTW Race in 94.

+1, I think it was in SAILING magazine IIRC. Dixon in the prime of his career, they lose the rig on one of the later legs and in doing so any chance of overall. Seeing the pic seemed to make such a statement though-kite up spray flying from both sides of the bow-you judge whose best it seemed to say.

[Anonymous Anarchist]

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My favs, courtesy of Winslow Homer and Leighton O'Connor
aa

[HILLY]

This is just cool with a kapital K!
Photo: Kevin Johnson.
Nelsons Pursuit race Antigua, 2012

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