Model No. XA2-1_05: Fishers Island Aux. Sloop

Model by: ASdeWH and NGH
Made when: December 1926 (or later)
Power/Sail: S
Vessel Type: Fishers Island Aux. Sloop (19); Fishers Island Aux. Sloop (Mod) (1)
Hull Configuration: Keel
Model location: M.I.T. Hart Nautical Collections

Vessels from this model:
14 built, modeled by ASdeWH and NGH

Model description:
"Model in M.I.T. Hart Nautical Collection: Fisher's Island 31 foot-class, #1054, Painted model; Size: 11"x45"; Acc. No.: XA2-1(5)." (Source: Source: van der Linde, Claas. 2007.)

Comment:
"[This painted model is believed to be] for presentation of display purposes." (Source: Hasselbalch, Kurt and Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin: Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997, p. 81.)

"The Fisher's Island 31 model is an evolution of the Newport 29 model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 14, 2009.)

Related model(s):
Model 0714 by NGH (1912); sail, 6 built from Model XA2-1_05 by ASdeWH and NGH (1926?); sail, 14 built from


Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.