Herreshoff #192101es Lantana

"[1921-01-12] Wed 12: ... Call on Francis and promised to take 16' rowboat [#192101es Lantana] off his hands for $60. ...
[1921-10-02] Sun 2: Very fine. ... Tried our 15-1/2' tender [#192101es Lantana] under sail in forenoon. Very satisfying.
[1921-10-11] Tue 11: Fine. Light variable [wind]. Left home in Helianthus [#378p] for winter in Florida waters. The yacht finally equipped and 15-1/2' row & sailing boat [#192101es Lantana] in tow. Ann accompanies me and the crew is Ole Gunderson & Carl Johnson. ...
[1922-01-08] Sun 8: Fair with a few light showers. Sail in tender [#192101es Lantana] early. Hold [Com. Munroe's boat] Melody in light breeze. ...
[1922-01-09] Mon 9: Fair [with] l[igh]t E [wind]. At anchor of[f] Yacht Club. Sail in tender [#192101es Lantana] in p.m.
[1922-02-25] Sat 25: Same fine weather. At anchor all day while Mr. Hine, Britton & Wirth explore north end of Long Key which belongs to Mr. Hine. Com[modore Munroe] and I do some sailing in tenders [#192101es Lantana and ?].
[1922-05-02] Tue 2: Fine day. Run to Newport arriving about sunset. Our boat Lantana [#192101es ] broke away e[ast] of Pt. Judith, but picked [her] up.
[1923-10-20] Sat 20: Very fine & mild. ... While going thru N.Y. Harbor, Saturday, a launch ran into our boat 'Lantana' [#192101es] and broke 3 strakes, 1 timber and displaced [a] side seat. We patched [the damage] with canvas.
[1923-10-25] Thu 25: Fair with mod[erate] SW to WNW [wind]. Underway after breakfast, and are held up one hour at last lock. Anchor at Annapolis at 4 p.m. We looked for a boat builder to repair our boat [#192101es Lantana] but had no success.
[1923-11-21] Wed 21: Very fine. L[igh]t NE[?], warm. At anchor. Rigged 'Lantana' [#192101es] in p.m. & took a sail to the opening.
[1924-01-02] Wed 2: [Thermometer] 73 - 77 [degrees]. Fair & warm with strong easterly [winds]. Ran up to Miami in a.m. for mail & provisions and back to Coconut Grove in p.m. and ashore. Stuff breeze in going aboard, but Lantana [#192101es] went well with but little spray.
[1929-10-19] Sat 19: [Thermometer] 58 - 39 - 54 [degrees]. Very fine. Mod[erate] NW [wind] early & cool, then calm & mod[erate] SW [in the] p.m. ... Hauled out the 11-1/2 ft row & sail boat [Lantana?]. ...
[1932-05-25] Wed 25: [Thermometer] 63 - 57 - 61 [degrees]. Very fine [and] nearly clear. Mod[erate] to fresh SW to S [wind]. Had [#192101es] Lantana taken to shop to be shipped to Clarence in Newport News. ...
[1932-05-27] Fri 27: ... [#192101es] Lantana was shipped away to Clarence this a.m. ...
[1933-03-27] Mon 27: ... Boat Lantana [#192101es] & Clarence Umiak arrive.
[1933-08-17] Thu 17: [Thermometer] 73 - 69 - 69 [degrees]. Overcast [with] l[igh]t SW [wind] ch[anging] to l[igh]t SE in evening. Clarence & Harley Tingley off on a short cruise in Lantana [#192101es]. ...
[1933-10-22] Sun 22: [Thermometer] 65 - 54 - 62 [degrees]. Very fine & mild. Calm early then mod[erate] S to SSW [wind] all day. At home. Clarence off in Lantana [#192101es] & Sidney & family off in Bubble [#285p].
[1933-11-18] Sat 18: [Thermometer] 42 - 35 - 38 [degrees]. H[eav]y WSW [wind] last night with snow squalls. Ground covered this a.m. L[igh]t variable wind, mostly SW & overcast. Sidney & men placed Bubble [#285p] & Lantana [#192101es] in boat house by the Useful [#190402es]. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1921 to 1933. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"My Own Boats. Except a few that will be mentioned as half-owner. ...
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1921 LANTANA - Open boat hull I bought from Francis, being an old yacht's tender. The yacht was hauled out and 2'6" added to the stem and a new and better looking rig [made]. I had it put in order, added a centerboard and two lug sails that could be used singly or together, and she proved a very useful boat. Size - 15' o.a., 14' w.l., 4' 10" beam, 25" deep, centerboard 36" x 14", sails 69 and 44 square feet - weight hull and fittings 350 pounds." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "My Own Boats. Except a few that Will be Mentioned as Half-Owner." Bristol, (originally compiled 1892 with additions in) 1929. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 120.)

"At this time [August 1924, after the auction of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company], I became entirely free of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, and with enough laid aside to live on, continued an idle life. Besides ALERION for home sailing in the summer, I had a cruising motor boat (HELIANTHUS III) and fitted up a large size sailing dinghy to tow in trips to Florida in the winter and sail there. This boat, LANTANA, proved very useful as a tender to go ashore in during our cruising and also as a sailing tender." (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, p. 74.)

"... Herreshoff is making this anchorage his headquarters, ... Herreshoff has a very smart 18-ft dinghy [#192101es Lantana], which in moderate winds has so far cleaned up all our [Coconut] Grove boats, even the new sharpies can't beat him to windward. ..." (Source: Munroe, Ralph M. [Letter to Vincent Gilpin.] University of Miami Collection. February 12, 1922.)

"... [During the hurricane of 1938 the boat shed between Sid’s and his father’s (Capt Nat) house collapsed, and of the seven boats stored in it, the Velita [#193301es] was the only one not completely destroyed. Sid’s dinghy, the Glory B [#193602es] was washed onto the piazza of the senior Herreshoff’s house, resting there in perfect repose. Sid’s little sloop, the speedboat Bubble [#285p] was feared lost, until she was dug out from a heap of kindling wood wreckage of several small waterfront cottages. The newest addition to Sid’s fleet, the 46-foot cabin launch, the Lang Syne [#251p], recently brought around from Marblehead, accommodatingly came ashore in his yard, so he had his whole flotilla stranded within a dozen feet of his shop door. ...[Also among the destroyed boats was #187406es Riviera. Two other boats that may have been in the boat shed and thus destroyed were #192101es Lantana which NGH reported to have been stored there as late as 1933 and #404s Coquina which was last reported to be in existence in 1932.]" (Source: Simpson, Richard, V. "The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave of 1938: Scenes of the Disaster in Rhode Island's East Bay." Roger Williams University, Bristol, 2012. http://docs.rwu.edu/hurricane_1938/1, retrieved April 12, 2014.)

"[Item Description:] Penciled dimensioned detail sketch on inside of opened envelope titled 'Centreboard and rudder for NGH's 15 1/2ft tender [#192101es LANTANA]. Scale 1/8 size. Aug. 1921'. Marked in ink '# 11910' [internal job number assigned by HMCo to work related to LANTANA in August and September 1921]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0342. WRDT04, Folder 30, formerly MRDE09. 1921-08.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled spar plan on brown paper titled 'LANTANA [#192101es]. Spars for N.G.H.'s 15 1/2ft boat. Order no. [11910]. No scale. Aug[ust] 22 1921'. On verso a penciled sketch of a 15 1/2ft long boat that appears to be LANTANA'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Spar Plan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0318. WRDT04, Folder 29, formerly MRDE09. 1921-08-22.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled profile and sailplan titled 'LANTANA [#192101es]. Fitted out fall of 1921 to tow to Florida. Scale 1/12'. With notes 'Weight of hull with grating, back board & rudder & c. Forward 160lbs. Aft 190lbs. Total 350[lbs]. The rig & oars are about 60lbs' and 'M[ain]s[ail] 69sqft. Miz[zen] 44 1/4sqft. [Total] 113 1/4[sqft]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0317. WRDT04, Folder 29, formerly MRDE09. No date (Fall of 1921 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] We were exceeding glad to hear of your safe arrival at home and that things generally were satisfactory tho to lay up HELIANTHUS [#378p] not so much so. I can imagine you all looking for the lost boat, its wonderful how easily a craft a craft without spars is lost sight of. [On May 2, 1922 NGH had lost #192101es LANTANA but subsequently retrieved her.] Well, the new boat [SUNSET] has been tried out in our usual fresh winds such as we would consider comfortable for MELODY but of course not her limit at all by the wind, and the new aspirant for honours acquitted herself very nicely on all points of sailing & handling. In fact, the only two sharps, Huntington & self consider her a success, but MELODY has just been hauled out & panted & this week we are going to see just how much she can be beaten to windward by the youngster.
The sails, EVANGELINE'S old mainsail & jib are not fair at all, in fact just horrid so if pleased[?] now what will a suit by Ratsey affect. I mention Ratsey because one of the City Island firm is coming down in Sep[tember] to spend the winter. is a friend of Dogals[?] who promises me a good article without the fancy price. I am enclosing a tracing of mid section showing the most[?] excessive heel we have so far been able to get. At this angle we can up stick & keep her dead off without any effect. Not[?] being used to this type of craft, the angle of heel struck me as being excessive at first and too much for good windward work but footing well with a perfect wake began to think I was wrong. Huntington says I was & that I should be perfectly satisfied but will you please drop me a line as to what you think tho of course none of us know yet just what she is doing & will do after I get the mainsail back after alterations. I did feel that if her bilge was hardened, say 2 1/2 or 3in on the diagonal, that it might help. This can be so easily done that I am tempted but will await your reply. I know you are just busy as can be and I've no business to ask. Time will stiffen her a bit of course & proper sails will be lighter, also her extreme stability is little questioned. I am just wondering if it would improve windward speed worth the trouble. Wirth leaves this p.m. for his Litchfield Conn. school and is looking forward to some time in late Aug. when he hopes to drop into Bristol & at least great you all & have a little 'look see'. am also enclosing a few prints of the nameless [SUNSET?] taken by Patty which shows that she does move. There was more chop to the sea than shows, making the bow wave for instance, seem excessive. In smoother water she makes no pronounced wave anywhere." (Source: Munroe, R.M. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_41440. Correspondence, Folder 86, formerly 121. 1922-05-28.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled dimensioned sketch showing profile of a dinghy. With calculations. Undated, on verso of an envelope from Daniel Bacon of 26 Beaver Street New York postmarked July 3, 1924. [Further research is needed to determine if this might be the rowboat which NGH sketched on July 10, 1924 with the mizzen of #192101es LANTANA (see 2004.0001.0316).]" (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0455. WRDT08, Folder 37, formerly MRDE09. No date (after 1924-07-03).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketched sailplan titled '12ft Row boat with LANTANA's [#192101es] Mizzen. Scale 1/12. July 10, 1924'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0316. WRDT04, Folder 29, formerly MRDE09. 1924-07-10.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Am just down stairs again after a few days in bed with a somewhat peculiar bilious attack which was a little misleading at first owing to my having had but very few trifling cases since coming to Fla. and didn't tackle it right at the start. We are having the most unpleasant Summer weather of any that I can remember. Heat at 94 several times and much of the time at 88, but with long spells of squalls, not fierce but continuous & much Eliclive[?] disturbances but not much damage even from that. Every thing going on nicely here not withstanding. The Camp improvements almost done so far as buildings are concerned and glad I am, in consideration of the cost of labor. The same has changed some of my minor plans as to rebuilding the railway and a few other things, so I've been puttering with old track, still good but badly bent down in places where ties have given out & heavy boats laid at low water. These conditions were remedied in a few hours luckily by the happy thought of extending the two cross cradle beams, apart as far as I could find heavy timber to reach & using my 20 ton jack with its two side foot lifts & chain under the rails. The running[?] gear is good for another season & more, its defect being simply wheels were too small. Now with a simple motor two winch each low[?] speed, worm gear hoister[?] mounted on the old platform, we can wiggle along for another spell. its only a sideshow anyhow. It's been a beautiful morning of promise but just as we went to lunch, it began from the S.W. again, rain in sheets, wind, thunder & lightening.
Have my Bristol sails unbent off SUNSET, and after again recutting the old white duck mainsail on the luff so as to make it as near LANTANA's [#192101es] as possible and have room for the single part peak halliard, have it now ready to bend.
Under no circumstances however, do I expect SUNSET to approach the speed mentioned for ALERION [#718s] to East Greenwich but I am going to try & see how near she can come to it. She has too much displacement & not fine enough ends below w.l. As for holding the peak up to the mast when reefed, I think nince[?] with some little angle left in it may stay up, if not, will just have to send Patty aloft with a lashing. Will be very glad to see your plan of mast, because anyway & notwithstanding. Its useless for me to any longer pretend that I can get around small boats in a seaway or handle their sails and 'that's what' since mechanized methods will either prevail or pocket handkerchief sails will take charge but fitting it would be if possible to arrange, to pass out of this life close hauled, lee rail under, with our master singing out from the lee set, drive her boys, drive her.
We have just heard though a letter from Aunt Joe of the splendid time you & Mrs Herreshoff gave her and the kindness from the family in general. Among other items she mentions that Mrs Herreshoff was about writing Mr Gardiner regarding the little cottage on the shore. Of course if that, or the Poole cottage next door to us on the hill could be arranged for it would be very nice but there is so little chance of either that its hardly worth figuring on as I think there is one feasible thing however that can be done. You remember the Boston portable cottage by my windmill. 8 x 14 with a projecting clothes closet. This can be moved down to the shore & set up again in half a day. This might answer for kitchenette & other use with toilet and septic tank at one side.
In front of this & facing the Bay with piazza just back of the beach, can be a moderate gable ended building of wood of any size to suit. Constructed so as to [be] portable like the other if necessity calls for it. All easily lighted & heated and fresh water except drinking, at the back door. No ground improvements mentioned[?] we can get together on[?], in fact anything you suggest goes. Yes, the troubles of the H.M.Co. are a most painful thing to contemplate. So many things of like watim[?] happened along about that time with like results. Uar[?] time profits seemed mostly to blame. Is there no chance for reorganization. There must be with such a heritage for[?] backing. My sympathy is with you as well as that of very many others. My N. Bahama expedition (St. Gardiners[?] in TRAMP) returned to day. That is, the party. TRAMP remains at Hopetown Abaco for use again next winter. But one thing went wrong on the whole trip. A bag of bones of the Indians of Columbus period got wound up in the shaft & ground to pieces and now the boat is haunted so says the crew but the owner is not worried. No danger now of any nigger thieving aboard.
I have known for a week past that Larry [Huntington] was in another deal to sell his Bay front place. This morning's papers announces it as closed to Wm. J. Beyan and we are quite pleased, for though hardly expecting any fancy piece from W.J.B. Larry has probably gotten a fair one which with the Key Largo boom chances on his holdings there, will enable him to clear up his affairs with balance enough to help the two children, set up another small house of refuge for himself and take life easy.
In reference to my suggestions on the cottage bu the sea ideas. There may be a hint of heterogeneous, cubist effect, but I think our talent for curved lines and the picturesque surroundings will blend the whole into something very attractive. With best wishes to you both ..." (Source: Munroe, R.M. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_41820. Correspondence, Folder 87, formerly 121. 1924-07-28.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Answering yours of the 1st, the tides have at last begun to fall off and my septic tank contractor, just here a few minutes ago, promises to begin & finish his job on the 7th sure, and as the plumbing is all in place there will be nothing except the mosquito screening. Elec[?] line wire from our laundry & shelving to be done. Some of the paint & stair work is just a little rugged from my stand point but will hardly be noticeable when the furnishings are in. Some articles have been selected by Mrs M[unroe] but not bought, preferring to have Mrs H[erreshoff] have a look first. Also it will look a trifle unkempt around the house til the new grass begins sprouting, otherwise you will have the most picturesque tropical aboding place in Florida, so every one says, even to being trumped[?] by falling coconuts which I will care for my morning a few overhanging ones.
As to 'LANTANA' [#192101es]. I only mentioned a sailing dinghy, thinking you might prefer one possibly to SUNSET, which is not rigged just your style but you are welcome to alter or fix her to suit yourself if it well be any more fun. I haven't been near her since July some time, not having had time to hardly think boat & probably won't til after you get here as I still have to give the Camp more or less attention to help out Wirth & Crear. The ways & basin have quite a business aspect already. A new Consolidated Co. Express cruiser 50ft hauling from Phila. persuaded me to let them come in to overhaul as they could find no fit place wound Miami, which with EVANGELINE & the usual fall work keeps me quite on the go. My L.I. Sound yacht racing friend is topping with us for a few days before locating in Miami & as he is a keen observer of all things & participated in some of the 6 meter races & many of the regular Club affairs, is giving[?] me a heat[?] including the inside gossip not published. Going back to the subject of sailing dinghy. What I referred to was an open, cat rigged craft, don't remember length but have seen numerous cuts of. Matheson had one for his children some years ago. However, if you will be content with SUNSET, why bother with anything else.
Sincerely ...
I had no prospective purchaser in particular. Tho I believe LANTANA would sell readily at the price mentioned but of course, the freight down to this palce might be a little high. Can you find out what it would come to? R.M.M." (Source: Munroe, R.M. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_40380. Correspondence, Folder 83, formerly 102. 1924-11-05.)
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