"America's Cup Boat Races at Newport & Marblehead", 1937, Part 2

J-Boats Sailing to Marblehead, 1937

The second part of a 16mm film photographed and produced by Frank Conant, later to be Director of the Graphic Arts, and Audio-Visual, departments at M.I.T. The first part of the film covered the America’s Cup races between 'Ranger' and 'Endeavour II', and this section shows fascinating footage as five J-Class yachts - 'Yankee', 'Rainbow', 'Endeavour I', 'Endeavour II' and 'Ranger' - sailed from Newport to Marblehead, all filmed from the deck of the 1930 America’s Cup contender, 'Yankee'. As well as 'Yankee’s' owner Gerald Lambert, her designer Frank Paine was also a member of the afterguard, as was the young sailor and yacht designer C. Raymond Hunt, all of whom can be seen in this film. Races between these five J-Boats took place at Marblehead about three weeks after the America's Cup races ended, and thousands of spectators watched the races there as well; in part as it was a significant gathering of J-Class boats, and also perhaps because people realized that the era of these large and expensive yachts was drawing to a close.

The following can be seen, initially, at these times:

00:45 Gerard Lambet, 'Yankee's' owner
03:50 Richard Fay, M.I.T. professor, and likely navigator here
05:18 C. Raymond Hunt, early in his career and a frequent sailor on 'Yankee'
9:04 Frank Paine, 'Yankee's' designer

From the collection of George O’Day.

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