HMCo #419s Coquina 2nd

"... At Bristol, the Herreshoffs have sent the 16-foot cat yawl [#419s Coquina 2nd] to Minnetonka, the 17-foot fin [#421s Bee] to Auburn, N. Y., and the half-rater [#425s Wee Winn] to Southhampton." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Globe, June 26, 1892, p. 21.)

"The spring work at Bristol is about finished, only the large steel steam yacht [#172p Truant] remaining. Last week the the half-rater Wee Win [#425s] was sent to New York for shipment to England, a 17ft. fin-keel [#421s Bee] was sent to Auburn, N. Y., a 16ft. cat-yawl to Lake Minnetonka, Minn. [#419s Coquina 2nd], and a 23ft. cat-yawl to Conanicut Park [#424s Wraith]; while the 30ft. centerboard Edith M. [#426s] was launched." (Source: Anon. "Yacht News Notes." Forest and Stream, June 30, 1892, p. 621.)

"[Item Description:] Typewritten and penciled table with data for 'Date of Order', '[Hull] No.', 'Name', 'Length on W.L.', 'Beam', 'Draft', 'Rig', 'Keel or Centerboard Keel', 'Ballast' for #400s CONSUELO, #401s ROMP, #402s CLARA, #403s CALYPSO, #404s COQUINA, #405s ALICE, #406s IRIS, #407s BIRD, #408s PELLICAN[sic], #409s GANNET, #410s MAB, #411s GLORIANA, #412s DILEMMA, #413s SAYONARA, #414s WASP, #415s WENONAH, #416s ALPHA, #417s DRUSILLA, #418s EL CHICO, #419s COQUINA 2ND, #420s REAPER and #421s BEE. Undated (data until 1891 is typewritten, thereafter penciled, suggesting that the table was prepared in January 1892 before EL CHICO, the first boat with a penciled year, was contracted for)." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Construction Record Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_04530. Folder [no #]. No date (1892-01 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Colored ink on paper sailplan titled '#404 COQUINA; and #419. Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Feb[ruary] 15, [18]92 [this dated crossed out in pencil]. Bristol, R.I.' and marked in pencil in lower right corner '#404 - 1889. #419 - 1892'. Also note 'COQUINA. Launched May 25, 1889'. With notes 'Mainsail 122sqft. Mainsail reefed 91 1/2sqft. Mizzen 61sqft. Mainsail & mizzen 183sqft. Mainsail reefed & mizzen 152 1.2sqft' and 'New small sails, Dec[ember 1898. Ma[insail] 83[sqft]. Mizzen 48[sqft]. [Total] 151[sqft]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Inked Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0304. WRDT04, Folder 28, formerly MRDE09. 1892-02-15.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #419s Coquina 2nd even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Coquina 2nd (HMCo-made index card)
• Coquina 2nd and #419p BPT31 (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

Name: Coquina 2nd
Type: Dandy
Length: 16'
Owner: Hollis, W. G.

Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.

• Coquina 2nd
• 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: Coquina II
Type: 16' catyawl
Owner: W. G. Hollis
Row No.: 131

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.

Month: Jan
Year: 1892
E/P/S: S
No.: 0419
Name: Coquina 2nd
LW: 16' 0"
B: 5' 0"
D: 1' 0"
Rig: Dandy [?]
CB: y
Ballast: None
Amount: 350.00
Notes Constr. Record: Mineapolis [SIC]
Last Name: Hollis
First Name: W. [?]

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

"Plan 28-9 (formerly 75-26) from which this boat was built is dated 1892-01." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 26, 2009.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.