Sailing Trips, 1934-1937--Dorothy Stebbins Bowles--home movies. Reel 8

Date1934 – 1937

Can DescriptionsSailing, 1934-1937: Mañana, Nordly - Newfoundland, Cape Breton, weekend sails, Bermuda; Steb, Chet, Charlie Young, Jim Rogers, Semaphore, sextant.

Viewing NotesRough water in the harbor. Man bailing water out of a dinghy in the pouring rain. Loads luggage onto the boat. Dinghy leaves. Pan of the deck. Man spear fishing off the bow. Man up at the top of the mast. Bad weather pan of the deck. Sunny. Chet and two men inspect the rigging. Everyone works to lower the mast and secure it. Pull up a different mast and secure it. Men and women working on the boat. Footage of the coast shot from the moving sailboat. Chet at the helm steering the boat. Boat canted far to the right. Pan around the ship. A man in a fedora with a camera takes pictures around the boat. Men on the boat. LS of another yacht and a man signaling with flags. Pan of the bay. Chester rows them to shore. CU on Dorothy as she rows the boat with another woman. Back on the Yacht. Shot of a man from the back on the deck as he signals with flags. LS of a distant boat. A woman at the helm while another woman films. Footage of the boat. Passengers lounge and work and clean. Men sanding the deck. Shot of Dorothy sitting on the deck with others. A man cutting his nails. Dorothy throws a couple buckets of water on Chet, and Chet throws a bucket on her. Several shots and pans of the rigging. Chet with a sextant.