Model No. 504: Haidee

Model by: NGH
Made when: 1865
Calculated model scale: 1/12
Model length (ca.): 27.7" (70.4cm)
Implied vessel LOA at 1/12 (ca.): 27' 8" (8.4m)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Sloop
Model location: H.M.M. Model Room West Wall Right

Vessels from this model:
1 built, modeled by NGH

Original text on model:
"HAIDEE 1865 name changed to FANCHON in 1866" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)

Model description:
"27'6" loa Haidee, sloop of 1865, built by JBH." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)

Model discussion:
"Following the model for the 16 ft. boat [HENRIETTA / POPPASQUASH], I made a model for a 25 foot sloop HAIDEE for Dr. S. Powell, 27' oa., 10'9" beam. After selling, [her] name [was] changed to FANCHON. This yacht I sailed a good deal in 1866." (P. 103; Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Boats and Yachts that I have been Especially Interested in by Sailing and Some of Which I Have Owned." Bristol, April 1932. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998.)

"This year, 1865, John built two boats from my models, my first to be built from. They were the sixteen foot catboat POPPASQUASH that was owned by Charles Chase Sr. for many years, and the sloop yacht HAIDEE, about twenty-seven and one-half feet overall. I sailed quite a good deal in each of them and they proved very good little craft." (P. 46-47; Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Some of the Boats I Have Sailed In." Written 1934. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998.)"