Herreshoff #187104es Maud

"Boston Sept 14 / 74
Dear Natty
Welcome home to the best country on the Globe.
I was in Paris last August and thought of you but had no idea you were so near (in Havre), as I afterwards learned on board the BOTHNIA coming home of a Mr Smith, who met you at Nice last Spring.
The enclosed match race is the champion of the D.Y.C. [Dorchester Yacht Club?] and if you don't come and help me out I am afraid Pierce's[?] boat the WATER WITCH will beat me as I have no one fit to handle the MAUD [#187104es] this summer.
I want to beat this race very much as I want to sell the MAUD and I will add one more obligation to those for which I am your debtor if you will come do come.
Remember me to Lewis & believe me your friend
C E Fuller. (Source: Fuller, Charles E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 25 (new), 212 (old). Access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff. September 14, 1874.)

"CITY POINT YACHTING. ... Herreshoff in them days was turning out some fine catboats, the Posy, Fanny, Maud, Bristol, Peri, Ruby, Virginia, Dandelion, Pansy and Tulip, bein' a few of his that used to carry off a good many prizes. ..." (Source: Anon ("Water Line.") "City Point Yachting. Great Record Made by Catboat Fanny." Boston Globe, February 2, 1890, p. 10.)

"CITY POINT YACHTING.
... Boston harbor is a good place to sail cat-boats, and prob'ly the catboat class under 20 feet water-line has given fun to more young sailors than all the rest put together. Way back when the [Herreshoff-designed] Fanny began to show her stern to the third-class boats, the Herreshoff cat Maud handled the smaller class boats as a rule. It were peculiar that the Herreshoff cats always did beat in a breeze and to windward, which were perhaps owin' to their having a rather full bow, and bein' quite able boats.
The Water Witch, a Pierce boat, came out in '72, and the Peri, a Herreshoff cat, in '73. Long about that time it used to be close work between the Maud, Peri, Bristol and Water Witch. The Bristol was another Herreshoff boat, but she had a square stern, while the Maud and Peri had counters.
In them days the Maud was Top of the Heap. The Water Witch didn't go so fast as she did later. She could sail fast enough, but she couldn't point up. I remember one Sunday when the Maud and Water Witch were 'scrappin.' The Maud could sail over half a point closer to the wind, but the Water Witch made it up by sailin' faster, so it were pretty close between 'em that day. But mostly the Maud could beat her.
That Sunday the Maud got a quick squall that filled her up to the seats and nigh swamped her. The Water Witch was behind the Maud, and she had time to get her sail in before it struck. It took the Maud's crew an hour to get the water out of her, and they had enough scrappin' for that day.
Water Line." (Source: Anon. ("Water Line.") "City Point Yachting." Boston Globe, March 16, 1890, p. 10.)

"[Item Transcription:] [Handwritten (in ink) letter on verso of circular by the Dorchester Yacht Club. 1874. Fifth Regatta. Fourth Regatta for Champion Prizes. Commercial Pont, Friday, Sept. 18, at 3 o'clock. For Yachts BRISTOL [#186801es], MAUD [#187104es] and WATER WITCH, over Course No. 2.:] Dear Natty
Welcome home to the best country on the Globe.
I was in Paris last August and thought of you but had no idea you were so near (in Havre), as I afterwards learned on board the BOTHNIA coming home of a Mr Smith, who met you at Nice last Spring.
The enclosed match race is the champion of the D.Y.C. [Dorchester Yacht Club] and if you don't come and help me out I am afraid Pierce's boat the WATER WITCH will beat me as I have no one fit to handle the MAUD this summer.
I want to beat this race very much as I want to sell the MAUD and I will add one more obligation to those for which I am your debtor if you will come do come.
Remember me to Lewis & believe me your friend ..." (Source: Fuller, Charles E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_07680. Correspondence, Folder 25, formerly 212. 1874-09-14.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #187104es Maud even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Maud
• Maude
• Note: The L. Francis Herreshoff index cards comprise a set of some 1200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and / or ownership information. Apparently compiled in the early 1930s, for later HMCo-built boats like the Fishers Island 23s or the Northeast Harbor 30s are not included. Added to in later decades, apparently by L. F. Herreshoff as well as his long-time secretary Muriel Vaughn and others. Also 46 cards of L. F. Herreshoff-designed vessels. The original set of index cards is held by the Herreshoff Marine Museum and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.

Name: Maud
Type: 18' 6" cat
Owner: H. A. Nash, Jr. [sic, Nash was owner in 1890 as per American Yacht List 1890/91]
Year: 1871
Row No.: 420

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.