HMCo #568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia]

"B-3-m [sic; on previous page]
No. 568.
17ft Sailing dingie[sic].
Frame spaces 7 1/2".
Planking 5/16" lapped.
Timbers 3/4" sided, 9/16" moulded.
Keel 1 3/8 deep (11/16" below garboard)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.132.] Undated, ca. July 1901. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan titled ''On moulds of Life [Boat] for COLUMBIA. Sheer raised 5in and stem moved aft 5in. cale 1/12in. July 10, [19]01. Not used. See other drawing for #568 [Sailing dinghy for St. Y. COLONIA]'. With list of scantlings." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0335. WRDT04, Folder 30, formerly MRDE09. 1901-07-10.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #568s [Sailing Dinghy for St. Y. Colonia] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Sailing dinghy for F G Bourne (HMCo-made index card)
• Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

Month: July
Day: 05
Year: 1901
E/P/S: S
No.: 0568
LW: 17' 3"
B: 5' 1/2"
D: 7 3/4"
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: $375.00
Last Name: Bourse?
First Name: F. A. ?

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

"Sailing dinghy for the 189ft LOA steam yacht Colonia, designed by Gardner & Cox and built in Chester, PA in 1899 for F. G. Bourne." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 28, 2009.)

"Sailing Dinghie. Frame spacing 7 1/2". Planking, white cedar 5/16" full lapped. Thwarts mahogany 7/8". Foot boards cypress 3/8". Deck mahogany 5/32", cedar 5/32". All trimmings to be of mahogany. For details, see [drawing] 79-85 [rigging details]. Sailplan 130-82. July 1901 [when built]. [For:] Colonia. Steam Yacht owned by Mr. Bourne [as per notes on plan 28-22]." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

"Plan 28-22 (formerly 76-32) from which this boat was built was drawn 1901-07." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.