2016.086.010
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Silent, color 16mm reel containing footage primarily concerning Bayview Yacht Club. The reel includes shots of the club and its marina, the adjacent riverfront, boating on the Detroit River, a regatta, and the passing of Queen Elizabeth's yacht BRITANNIA.

The film begins with footage of a sailboat maneuvering outside of a long row of boathouses at Bayview Yacht Club, followed by a shot of a group of people at a firing range beside Gregory Marina. Several shots follow of people performing maintenance on the hulls of boats in dry dock. After shots of boats in the marina, the camera then moves to the lawn outside of a club building where children are shown hunting in the bushes for Easter Eggs.

After a cut, the camera is on board a sailboat on the Detroit River with a group of people. After brief shots of the boat on the river, the boat is then at dock at Bayview, where a diver dives beneath the boat.

After another cut, the camera films from on board a sailboat in the middle of a regatta of other boats. Although the surrounding sailboats' sails are down, their masts are dressed with flags. In the foreground, a man in a Bayview t-shirt films using a camera. The film also includes a shot of Bayview as the camera operator's boat passes it.

Next, the film features a series of shots of a Shell gas pump beside a dock, and of the sign for Duffy's Tavern. After the boat is fueled up, it returns to the river, where its sails are unfurled. The camera then gets several shots of a dredging drill boat on the river.

Back on shore at Bayview, a sailboat on dry dock is filmed from a variety of angles. The action then returns to a boat on the river where two pairs of people are filmed having pillow fights while seated on the boat's boom.

Then the camera gets a close-up of a memorial marker surrounded by flowers and beer bottles in a garden. The marker is engraved with "ROWDY. Rill Wigle. Port Huron - Mackinac 1961. Old Sailors Never Die, They Just Flat Away." A group of men then come out of the adjacent club building, and pour drinks on the marker. Using simple trick photography, a man is then shown emerging from the marker, with the flowers previously beside it now in his hands.

The reels final shots are of passing river traffic including a coast guard cutter and the British royal family's yacht BRITANNIA, presumably shot during Queen Elizabeth's 1959 cruise through the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway and into the Great Lakes.

The film is on a brown metal reel housed within a dark grey canister with a Du Pont label. A note on Masten Corporation stationery is included inside of the canister, "BYC - Rowdy" "330A155 5" on DuPont Type 330 label. The handwritten note reads, "Rebel, Trapshooting, Workingi in Yard (Spring), Easter Eggs, Rowdy to Amherstburg, D[?] on Rowdy, Fleet Review, Wigle grave, Britannia, Basement Party."

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