Tuiga, Mariquita, Cambria, Shamrock, Eleonora, Zaca, Moonbeam, Lulworth, Sunshine, Partridge, Altair, Nan, Marilee, and Bona Fide: these are the sailing yachts of legend. Restored in the last twenty years, the original splendor of these superb boats is now profiled on the pages of Classic Yachts. A testimony to maritime history, this book tells each sailing […]
Sleek – Classic Images from the Rosenfeld Collection
The Rosenfeld Collection at Mystic Seaport contains a million images emphasizing classic yachting created from the lens of Morris Rosenfeld & Sons of New York City. But even more than photos of boats, the collection represents the epitome of the art of maritime photography, just as the subjects represent the ideals of the art of […]
Eileen Ramsay – Queen Of Yachting Photography
Eileen’s heyday was between 1957 and 1970 – a time when eccentrics ruled, records were there for the setting, and women weren’t often to be found behind the lens. But Eileen established herself as one of the greatest yachting photographers of her time, taking famous portraits of such sailing icons as Sir Francis Chichester, Eric […]
The Beken Album
The famous Cowes based photographers illustrate some of their best shots in this 1999 edition. It is a selection of duotone images, with each decade being placed in the context of its yachting epoch, showing some of the developments in the world of sail at that time. Beautifully laid out with words from yachting historian […]
