I stumbled across this photo while looking for something entirely different. ( I have over one hundred thousand negatives spanning almost 50 years) I have been scanning and correcting images for several years now. It is a slow tedious process. There are photos which I still have not found that I know I have safely somewhere. I found an image a few days ago I had been searching for, for easily two years.
Back to this photo taken approaching the finish of the 1969 transatlantic race from Newport, RI to Cork, Ireland. That is Daunt Lightship on the bow of “Carina”, our finish. Richard B. Nye trimming the spinnaker. Finding this photo made me wish I had similar ones for each race I had sailed.
Steve, there’s so much timelessness to see in this picture:
The hanked-on jib
The stiff TopSider boots
The quilted (Probably LL-B.) Jacket
No gloves (give me a break…do you konw what wire does to hands?)
The wooden chaf guards on the shrouds
The cradle for supporting the reaching strut
But best of all, the hair cut!
BTW, the glasses NEVER were out of style.
BP
a minor technicallity….Richard B. Nye is not Richard Nye Jr. His father as you know was Richard S. Nye.
Great picture by the way.
Bill
I bought a scanner a while ago and your right, this is a tedious process. Got some stuff of you in a sunfish frosbiting 1980-2? Got a ton of stuff from 1979 thru 1982. Two Star, Single handed(Phil Weld), Ton series(Mr Jumper), etc.
Great picture. Really captures Richard’s air of competence and goodwill. I don’t think the jacket was LLBean-much too practical looking. The Topsider Boots were great, but did not “breathe”, so when you took them off nobody else could either. Back in 1955 I recall that Andy Rockefeller on Carina had a pair of Topsider hipboots. They came up to just above mid thigh, and had straps to attach to your belt. I never saw another pair.