Tysnes yacht sailor museum researcher Knut Arne Grøteide has spent numerous hours surveying yacht sailors from Tysnes, accidentally leading him to a video clip from a yacht known to many a Tysnesing, the “Resolute”, shot in 1926.

The clip is an amateur film of a cruise taken by a group of friends or family members on board Nathanael Herreshoff’s “Resolute”, from Mattapoisett, Massachusetts to Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1926, from a longer film containing footage of sailing, tennis, and other activities at Mattapoisett Yacht Club in 1926. Please see below video clip.

See any familiar names or faces?

From what we know, the following Tysnes sailors served as crew members on board the “Resolute” (names in parenthesis used in the U.S.):

Knut Berentin Bruntveit (Ben/Bernt Bruntvedt, Knute Bruntweth), Knut Martin Jacobsen Dalland (Martin Dalland), Kolbein Teodor Jakobsen Dalland (Teddy Dalland), Bernt Akselson Ersvær (Ben Axelsen), Gunnar Olson Gjerstad (Gust Olsen), Gustav Teigland Gunderson (Gust Gunderson), Ole Teigland Gunderson, Torbjørn L. Humlevik (Teddy Lawrence Humlevik), Hans Martin Henrikson Kjærefjord (Hans Lande), Karl Andreas Kristoffersen, Anders Andersen Malkenes (Andrew Anderson), Hans Andersen Malkenes, Johannes Anderson Malkenes (John Andersen), Hans Tobias Torbjørnson Meland, Gunnar Nilsen, Martin Andreas Nilsen, Karl Teigland (Carl Gundersen), Rasmus Gunderson Teigland, Mads S. Vee, Engel Vaage (John Christensen).

Do you recognise any of them?

More on the crew members here (available in English at a later stage).

Footage (and above screendump) from the IYRS School of Technology & Trades