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

Model No. XA2-1_05


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
#1054s Cyrilla IV (1927)
#1055s Judy (1927, Extant)
#1059s Chance (1927, Extant)
#1060s Mameena (1927, Extant)
#1061s Kestrel (1929, Extant)
#1132s Azura (1929, Extant)
#1153s Savage (1930, Extant)
#1154s Qutee [Qu Tee] (1930, Extant)
#1155s Wild Goose (1930)
#1156s Surprise (1930, Extant)
#1157s Kelpie (1930, Extant)
#1165s Skiddoo [Skidoo] (1931)
#1166s Last Straw (1931)
#1185s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1186s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1187s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1188s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1189s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1190s [Unbuilt Fishers Island 31] (1930)
#1521s Memory (1946)

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
Alerion, Sadie, NP29 and FI31: NGH (1); Newport 29 (4); Sloop (1)
Model XA2-1_05 by ASdeWH and NGH (1926?); sail, 14 built from
Fishers Island Aux. Sloop


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.


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