Herreshoff #191108es [Dinghy for #709s Joyant]
Particulars
Type: Colonia Rowboat
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1911-5-11
Finished: 1911
Job No.: 5928
Construction: Wood
LOA: 8' 5" (2.57m)
Beam: 3' 9" (1.14m)
Draft: 1' 6" (0.46m)
Rig: None (rowboat)
Centerboard: No centerboard
Built for: Childs, William H.
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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
Model number: 18Model 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.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.132
Offset booklet contents:
#568, #217, #218, #709 (rowboat) [17' 3" w.l. sailing dinghy, 20' l.o.a. electric launches Maisie & Carmen, tender for Joyant (#191108es)].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
![Main drawing Dwg 028-040 [076-104] (HH.5.02039)](../Images_Drawings/250px/HH.5.02039.jpg)
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Herreshoff #191108es [Dinghy for #709s Joyant] are listed in bold.
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Dwg 028-040 [076-104] (HH.5.02039); Construction Dwg > Rowboat 8'-5" O.A., 3'-9" Wide, 1'-6" Deep (1911-05-11)
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Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"May 10 1911.
Rowboat for #709 [Joyant].
Set of moulds to be made with 9" scale using only even nos. and to be spaced 7 1/4" for 8' 5" over all.
Planking to be 7/32" and timbers 9/16".
Keel 1" deep with 1/2" above rabbate." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.132.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Supplement
Research Note(s)
"For Tender to #709 [Joyant], Frame Spaces 7 1/4" using even # frames only, moulds 3/4 dimensions of #568 (Sailing dinghy for Colonia) as changed for #218 [#218p Carmen (electr. launch)], Dec. 1901, stern flat on top with corners rounded, make pine block to rest bow, at #4 frame; as per notes on plan 28-40.
See offset booklet HH.4.132." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)
"This vessel's building date was determined from notes on the original plan. The note about this boat in offset booklet HH.4.132 is dated 1911-05-10. Plan 28-40 (formerly 76-104) from which this boat was built was drawn 1911-05-11. The vessel's job number 5928 was assigned 1911-05-11. #709s Joyant (for which this vessel was built) was contracted for 1911-01-31. This boat's contract or building date is 100 days after #709s Joyant was contracted for." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 21, 2021.)
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