Herreshoff #188302es [Small Boat for #400s Consuelo]

"[Item Description:] Penciled note 'Bills payable' on recto. On verso penciled tabulated financial data titled 'Statement. Deposits in Dec[ember] 31st 1883' and containing what appears to be a calculation of NGH's net worth at the time. Including dollar valuations of various bank accounts, shareholdings in HMCo (125 shares valued at $12500) and two railroads, 'Amount invested in Love Rocks to date $9773.39', 'Estimated value of yacht CONSUELO [#400s] and small boats [#188302es, #188303es] $3000', 'Estimated value of catamaran LODOLA [#187903es] $700', 'Estimated value of Ice Boat and RIVIERA [#187406es] $90', 'Tools $120.00', 'Books, Furniture, etc. $500', '2 Patents, Catamaran and Regulator $100.00', '1/2 Patent Regulator $0.00'." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_65240. Note. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder 182?, formerly 133?. 1883-12-31.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan sketch of a small dinghy with gaff-rigged sail. Untitled. The sail has the same dimensions as another sketch 'Sail for CONSUELO's [#400s] small boat [#188302es]. 1886' which strongly suggests that the dinghy is indeed CONSUELO's small boat." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_04800. Folder [no #]. No date (1886 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan sketch titled 'Sail for CONSUELO's [#400s] small boat [#188302es]. 1886' with sail area 49sqft and dimensions for mast, gaff, boom and sail. This looks like the same sail with same sail area shown as a mizzen on another sailplan that appears to be for #187406es RIVIERA." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_04820. Folder [no #]. 1886.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #188302es [Small Boat for #400s Consuelo] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

"This boat was added to the HCR due presence of a sailplan in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Colleection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum 'for Conseuelo's small boat. 1886'. The boat is also shown hanging from the starboard side of Consuelo's davits. Another sketch in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection of the same sail together with a profile of the boat shows a boat length of 10ft 3in. Most or all small boats built by HMCo at the time were Albatross rowboats built from plan 28-1 and from Model 121, leading to the assumption that this was also the case for this yacht tender. But note that no boat for Consuelo is mentioned on that plan (others are) and that no centerboard case is shown on that plan. It is not clear if this boat was built in 1883 together with Consuelo or in 1886 when the above mentioned sailplan was made." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 13, 2019.)

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