Herreshoff #191101es [10ft Rowboat Job6258]

Name: [10ft Rowboat Job6258]
Type: Colonia Rowboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1911-12-4 ?
Launch: 1912-1 ?
Job No.: 6258
Construction: Wood
LOA: 10' 0" (3.05m)
Beam: 3' 11" (1.19m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Built for: Herreshoff Mfg. Co.

Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.

Model number: 18
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room East Wall

Vessels from this model:
36 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"Sailing dingy for COLONIA July 1901 1/12
Numbers 217 and 218 (1903) frame spaces 8 1/2" instead of 7 1/2" raised 1/2" stem 6" aft flared out to 5' 5" beam Model cut away forward and remeasured before #218 set up Dec. 1901
1923 (01?) sailing cutter for ROAMER 1925 sailing cutter for Rob. Tod 1926 sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"#568 17'3" loa sailing dinghy of 1901 for the cutter Colonia. Also, with modifications, #217 Maisie and #218 Carmen, 20 loa electric launches of 1901, sailing cutter for the steam yacht Roamer, sailing cutter for the schooner Katoura, and sailing dinghy for Charles Goodwin." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.