Ga Ga for Herreshoff

[rbgarr]

My wife feeds my obsession. A good wife, a loving wife-

She framed my old 16"x 20" photos of Resolute

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And let me put my half model of Defender (that she painted) over the bed. I'll be mighty big and live with the frilly pillows now ;).

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[John B]

Neat photos Dave, Rosenfeld? sp? I've seen similar or the same pics and used to go over them with a fine tooth comb looking for data. It intrigued me the way they got the gaff past the jumper and those guys running around up there. There's another photo which I just bet was taken on that same day, part of a sequence . It could be one after the first of yours , just forward of the bow but still on stbd.. I'm sure its in a book I have.

frilly pillows eh. the things we have to bear.. sigh.

[Stiletto]

Boy she sure sails on her ear.

[John B]

This is the one I mean,top left..
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid225/pb4e2da49e7950be15bfcbc2cc5b22fde/e821ec7a.jpg
its in The Wizard of Bristol but I've seen or have a better copy of it somewhere. Looks like the same day eh.
Love that pic. just look at that topsail!

[rbgarr]

It's amazing to me how well those sails set. The care and knowledge of the sailmakers and crews to build, break them in and set them is a wonder. The masthead man must have felt like a god with his fists playing the strings of a monster cello thrumming in the wind. The gaff rode a track car AFAIK (no jaws) but maybe I don't know what you mean by jumpers (?)

I got those photos thirty years ago (original Rosenfelds) at a used bookstore in Boston for a few dollars each. The owner of 'the schooners' kept apologizing for the frames which had been stapled together out of old yardsticks and painted a sickly green. I'd never wanted to fool with changing them because I was afraid the photos were stuck to the glass, but my wife found a local sailor and conservator who risked it.

According to Mystic archives the photo was taken in Long Island Sound off Larchmont during the 1915 America's Cup Trials. VANITIE has been cropped out of the picture. (The actual Cup races were postponed until 1920 due to WWI.)

Nice nautilus shell there on your table, by the way!

[Paul Girouard]

Dimples seems to be a good wife, maybe almost as good as Brandy. From the song :D

[rbgarr]

Not always, but when she's good, she's very very good.

[John B]

They're fabulous photos, you're a lucky/clever guy.:D
We cheated with the nautilus shell( good spotting) I bought it. Friends have one they picked up off the Poor knights( dead) and then we went aboard Siandra and Jamie and Nikki have one they picked up out of the sea in some exotic location in their travels. They told the story of sailing past it and then recognising and doing a crash manouvre to get back and pick it up.

We do that , compulsory MOB drills they are, but all we get are caps, buckets and breadboards,

and a wooden boarding ladder, some rope, a plank, a large piece of teak dunnage ( I presume), a dinghy( come to think about it) an oar or two, hmm quite a bit of stuff.

One day we'll find one too.....

[JimD]

Ask her if she'll embroider a couple Herrershoffs on the frilly pillows and get back to us.

[rbgarr]

She doesn't 'tat', but she caught my attention when she made a 12" x 20" copper plate engraving of this photo of Alden's Malabar X for my college graduation gift. She enjoyed the painstaking detail work and knew I'd like it, but was always slightly irritated by engraving mistakes only she could see.

When we moved few years ago I was looking for it to rehang. She told me she'd sold it at a pre-move yard sale. Very sly of her, but a forehead slap and a night of teeth grinding for me.

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