Herreshoff #193803es [Unbuilt Sail Fish Class]

Particulars

Name: [Unbuilt Sail Fish Class]
Type: Open Sloop
Designed by: ASdeWH
Not built, not assigned, cancelled, etc.: 1938-11-22
Construction: Wood
LOA: 16' 0" (4.88m)
Beam: 5' 6" (1.68m)
Rig: Sloop Wishboom
Sail Area: 126sq ft (11.7sq m)
Centerboard: yes

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 #413Model number: 413
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Left

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by ASdeWH
#193301es Velita (1933, Extant)
#193803es [Unbuilt Sail Fish Class] (1938)

Original text on model:
"VELITA scale 1" = 1' January 1933." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model Description:
"16'1" loa Velita, decked daysailer of 1933 designed by Sidney Herreshoff for his own use, and now in the Herreshoff Marine Museum's Hall of Boats." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model Comment:
"Reference to Model 413 was added by CvdL because the Lake Sail Fish was based on Velita which in turn was built from this model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 23, 2011.)

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.4.204

Offset booklet contents:
#193803es, #1430s, #1474s [16' 0" l.o.a. Unbuilt Sail Fish Class, 21' 6" w.l. Seafarer-class sloops]

Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)

Drawings

Main drawing Dwg 075-074 (HH.5.05463) Explore all drawings relating to this boat.

List of drawings:
   Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
   Herreshoff #193803es [Unbuilt Sail Fish Class] are listed in bold.
   Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
  1. Dwg 132-000 (HH.5.10780.1): [Pantograph Hull Sections Believed To Be Taken From Model 213] (ca. 1938)
  2. Dwg 132-000 (HH.5.10780.2): [Construction Detail Believed To Be For Velita or Sailfish Class] (ca. 1938)
  3. Dwg 075-074 (HH.5.05463): Construction Dwg > Sail Fish Class, 16'-0" O.A., 5'-6" Beam (1939-07-24)
  4. Dwg 080-160 (HH.5.06074): Spars for Sail Fish Class (75-74) (1939-07-24)
  5. Dwg 080-160 (HH.5.06074.1): Spars for Sail Fish Class (75-74) (1939-07-24)
  6. Dwg 130-199 (HH.5.10523): Sails > Sail Plan, Rigging and Block Lists Sail Fish Class (1939-07-24)
  7. Dwg 130-000 (HH.5.10538): Sails > Sailfish Class [16' 0" LOA 14' 7 1/2" LWL 5' 6" Beam 3' 5" Draft] (1944-09-01)
  8. Dwg 130-199 (HH.5.10524): Sails > Sailfish Class (1944-09-01)
Source: Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Together with: Hasselbalch, Kurt with Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin. Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997. Together with: Numerous additions and corrections by Claas van der Linde.
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.

Documents

Other Herreshoff Family

"Nov[ember] 22, 1938
Sail Fish Class
Figures taken from model [Model 413] of 'Velita' [#193301es]
Scale 1" = 1'
Frame spaces 8"
Frames 11/16" sq[uare], floors 5/8"
Planking 3/8" single
Keel 1 1/4" thick
Bottom of keel 5/16" below bottom of planking
Make sheer 1" higher than offsets in book." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney DeW.? [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.204.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)


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