The painting depicts Nat Herreshoff’s great racing schooner Ingomar racing the schooner Elmina off Great Captains Island during the Larchmont Race week 1907 at her helm is the redoubtable Charlie Barr the successful skipper of three America’s Cup campaigns.
Ingomar was built of the wealthy financier Morton F Plant and was the first of Nat Herreshoff’s 9 great steel hulled racing schooners which included, Queen, Westward, Elena and others. She was built alongside Reliance in 1903 and joined her on the New York Yacht Clubs annual cruise of that year as Reliance tunned up to Defend the America’s Cup against Shamrock 111.
In 1904 with Capt Charlie Barr at the helm and a crew of veterans from Reliance she crossed the Atlantic to race the cream of the British yachting fleet at Cowes before crossing to compete in the German regattas at Keil where with Capt Barr at the helm she famously forced the German Kaiser racing on his schooner Meteor to give way.
Ingomar returned home after a very successful campaign winning 12 firsts, 4 seconds 1 third and 2 challenge cups in her 24 races.
Due to changes in rating laws Ingomar was not raced again until the season of 1907 when with Charlie Barr again at her helm she enjoyed some great racing with the schooners Elmina and Ingomar’s successor from Nat Herreshoff the schooner Queen.
Specifications
Length overall 127ft
Length on the waterline 86ft, 1 inch
Beam 24ft 2 inch
Draft 14ft