Girls Sneakbox Race

The Race Committee is on the dock, all fussed because the cannon won’t work, and the sailors are winding up the race! As quoted from the New Jersey Courier in 1899, "The youngster from the city tumbles into a Sneakbox as soon as he learns the way along the boardwalk across the meadows to the dock – usually within the first hour after he leaves the depot. Once in a box he goes it alone, and if he capsizes, collides with other craft, fetches up on the flats or hangs his boat on another yacht’s cable, it is all in the day’s sport for him." Young men weren’t the only ones who sailed, as seen in this painting. The flags on the pole read "Bay Head Yacht Club 1902."

Image size: 7x11.

A small print of this is available in gallery stores only. It is an offset print and sells for $35. Click here for a list of galleries where this print can be purchased.