A "Crack" sloop in a race to windward: Yacht Gracie of New York – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A "Crack" sloop in a race to windward: Yacht Gracie of New York
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The sloop *Gracie* of New York is pictured heeled over and driving hard into the wind, the point of sail that best showed a racing yacht's ability to climb toward its mark. The title calls her a "crack" sloop, sailors' slang for a top-rank racing boat, so the picture presents her as a vessel built to win. Yacht racing around New York grew into a popular spectacle in the later 1800s, with wealthy owners commissioning fast sloops and crowds following the contests from shore and from steamers. Images like this one recorded those races and let owners and enthusiasts show off a boat's speed.
| Created / published | A "Crack" sloop in a race to windward: Yacht Gracie of New York |
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| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 10,036 × 7,197 px · prints to 33 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 12 |
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