Nova Scotia Archives
Bluenose: A Canadian Icon
Racing for the Buoy / Coming Up to Inner Automatic Buoy
Identified in Merkel & MacAskill, Schooner Bluenose (1948), as 'Coming up to Inner Automatic Buoy, First Elimination Race' (1921); and in MacAskill, Out of Halifax (1937) as "Racing for the Buoy: A fair wind, a fine day, and the mark in sight!'
Date: 1921
Photographer: W.R. MacAskill
Reference: W.R. MacAskill Nova Scotia Archives 'Out of Halifax' series, no. 76