HMCo #449s Anoatok

"[1894-11-07] Wed 7: Set up frames for #449, 30' for Geo. Owen [Anoatok].
[1894-12-05] Wed 5: Began planking #439 [sic, i.e. #449 Anoatok?]. ...
[1894-12-28] Fri 28: #449 [Anoatok] planked up.
[1895-01-04] Fri 4: ... #449 [Anoatok] planked & partly planed.
[1895-01-14] Mon 14: Turned over #449 [Anoatok]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1894 to 1895. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"Oct. 14 1894 'Anoatok'
#449 29 3/4 wl bulb keel for Geo. Owen.
To be made on moulds of #439 [Alerion I] with frame spaces 11in. Double planked, mahog[any] o[ut] s[ide]. Tobin bronze keel. Preliminary estimate of weights & centers. Disp[lacement] 11/12 x 14240 = 13050 [lbs]. ...
Jan 18th [1895] Lead pattern to be made from figures of lead in book for #450 [Isolde] using scales as follows: Length 718/1000, Depth 833/100[0], Breadth 625/1000 = 374/1000 = 6750/18040 ...
March 20 [1895] Wgt. of keel plate 1075 lbs. The scale of which pattern was finally made gave a good deal too heavy bulb (8207lbs) [unreadable word] May 23rd 868lbs were cut off sides of bulb.
May 23 [1894] [Wgt of] lead bulb 8207
Total 9282
- 868
[Total] 8418
May 24 [1894] Length of w.l. with equipment but no crew on board 29ft 8 1/2in
June 27, 1904. Dimensions from [sp?] measurer of NYYC. Length at 1/4 beam, deck 32ft 9in, w.l. 23-11 1/2. Disp[lacement] 13850 lbs = 216 cu.ft." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene. [Design booklet entry.] October 14, 1894.)

"Marblehead Neck.
August 27th '94
Dear Mr. Herreshoff:-
My father and I intend going to Bristol this week Friday (Aug. 31) to see you with regard to building a boat similar to 'Alerion' [#439s].
If it would not inconvenience you, my father would like to take a short spin on your boat. We shall probably reach Bristol about 11 or 12 o'clock.
Yours respectfully
Geo. Owen Jr. [This will become #449s Anoatok.]" (Source: Owen, George Jr. [Letter to N. G. Herreshoff.] Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 1_14 (new), 237 (old). Access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff. August 27, 1894.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., Dec. 8 [1894]. --- The Herreshoffs are not so rushed with work that they could not take an order for a cup defender, yet there is a fair amount of work on hand and a prospect of more. There are two steamers [#181p and #182p] and three sailing yachts [#449s, #450s, #451] now on hand in the shops, and a moderate force of men at work, which could be largely increased should a rush of work come.
... The sailing yachts in hand are the twenty-rater for Howard Gould [#451s Niagara], for his British campaign of next season; a twenty-rater for parties in Germany [#450s Isolde], and the twenty-footer [sic, i.e. thirty-footer, #449s Anoatok] for George Owen, Jr., for use at Marblehead, which was announced a week ago. ...
The thirty-footer [#449s Anoatok] is in the north shop, and is being planked bottom upward, according, to the usual Herreshoff style in small yachts. She looks to be a little narrower than the Handsel [#422s], and has a round and moderately-full midship section, with a very easy sweep to the lines fore and aft. Her overhangs are not extreme, and she promises to be an able boat, with speed enough to make the Handsel hustle to retain first honors in the Class. The yacht is to have a polemast rig and good cabin accommodations under a low house. She will be ready for the opening of the season. ..." (Source: Anon. "Ready for Orders. The Herreshoffs Can Start Cup Defenders on Short Notice." New York Times, December 9, 1894, p. 23.)

"... BRISTOL, R. I., Jan. 12 [1895]. --- ... The Owens thirty-footer [#449s Anoatok] for Boston is finished outside, and will be completed as fast as possible." (Source: Anon. "Ready To Build Cup Defenders. Improvements in the Herreshoff Plant for Yacht Building." New York Times, January 13, 1895, p. 6.)

"PROVIDENCE, Feb. 14 [1895]. --- ... The 10-rater [#449s Anoatok] that has been building in the north shop for George Owens [sic, i.e. Owen] of Boston is nearing completion, and was moved from her original position the first of the week [February 11, 1895] in the east part of the shop to the west end, alongside of the new Hostetter steam yacht [#181p Duquesne], in order to make room for the setting up in frame of the German 20-rater [sic. This would have been #450s Isolde but the writer confuses her with #451s Niagara], which work is now being done. The latter will be built off the same moulds as the Gould 20-rater [#451s Niagara]." (Source: Anon. "Work on the New Defender. Preparations Made to Run the New Yacht's Lead Keel." New York Sun, February 15, 1895, p. 5.)

"The 30-footer built for George Owens, Jr., of Boston, which has been suspended in the south shop of the Herreshoffs, has been lowered to the floor and brought around into the north shop, where the workmen are putting on ber deck and finishing her cockpit. She was not badly injured during the heavy storm of last winter when the ice and sea came into the shops, only some of the paint being rubbed off. Mr. Owens was at the Herreshoffs yesterday looking over his boat. The fin of this boat is all ready and as soon as the hull is ready she will be fitted up and given a trial here." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News." Bristol Phoenix, April 23, 1895, p. 2.)

"The 30-footer for George Owen, Jr., of Boston, is nearly ready for her fin, and she will in all probability be put overboard the latter part of next week." (Source: Anon. "Yacht Work at Herreshoffs." New York Sun, April 28, 1895, p. 5.)

"Providence, R. I., May 19, 1895. ... The 10-rater Anoatak, built by the Herreshoffs for George Owens of Boston had a brush with Nat Herreshoff's fin-keel sloop Alerion [#446s] in the bay today and showed that she is remarkably fast in stays. She answered her rudder very well." (Source: Anon. "May Delay Defender's Launching." Boston Herald, May 20, 1895, p. 6.)

"[Anoatok (Sail, B F) owned by George Owen, Jr., Port: Marblehead; LOA 42.6ft; LWL 29.6ft; Beam 8.6ft; Draft 7.2ft; designed by N. G. Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co in 1895.]" (Source: Stebbins 1896 Yachtsmen's Album, p. 45.)

"The fin keel cutter Anoatok, designed by Nat Herreshoff, and built at Bristol in 1896, has been sold by Oswald Sanderson to another New York yachtsman, whose name is for the present withheld. The Anoatok has an enviable racing record. Her principal dimensions are: Length over all, 46 feet 8 inches; on the water line, 30 feet, beam, 8 feet 6 inches; depth, 4 feet; draught, 6 feet 9 inches." (Source: Anon. "Notes For Yachtsmen." New York Times, April 12, 1900, p. x.)

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"[Item Transcription:] My father and I intend going to Bristol this week Friday (Aug. 31) to see you with regard to building a boat similar to 'ALERION' [#439s].
If it would not inconvenience you, my father would like to take a short spin on your boat. We shall probably reach Bristol about 11 or 12 o'clock.
Yours respectfully ... [This will become #449s ANOATOK.]" (Source: Owen, George, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_01250. Correspondence, Folder 1_14, formerly 237. 1894-08-27.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.07296 (091-026) (preliminary version). Penciled list titled "Block List #449. ANATOK [sic, i.e. ANOATOK]. Oct 1894'." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. (creator). Penciled List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0640. WRDT08, Folder 47. 1894-10.)
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"[Item Description:] please ready #449s ANOATOK for the season; Alpheus Packard and I are planning to sail her around the Cape to Marblehead" (Source: Owen, George, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_03520. Correspondence, Folder 1_14, formerly 228. 1895-05-07.)
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"[Item Description:] report on lost race on #449s ANOATOK against #422s HANDSEL and STANDARD in Marblehead; new crosscut sails are not at fault; boat is leaking; defeated but not discouraged" (Source: Owen, George, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_03480. Correspondence, Folder 1_14, formerly 228. 1895-06-19.)
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"[Item Description:] sends #449s ANOATOK mainsail to be recut (too flat)" (Source: Owen, George, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_03260. Correspondence, Folder 1_14, formerly 229. 1895-07-08.)
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"[Item Description:] Table titled 'Examples of the Application of Proposed Measurement Rule for the the New York Yacht Club' providing data for Rig, Type under Water, Load waterline, Draft, Displacement, Sail area, Racing length and others for #435s COLONIA, #437s VIGILANT, #452s DEFENDER, JUBILEE, QUEEN MAB, HURON, #414s WASP, #451s NIAGARA, UVIRA, #422s HANDSEL, #449s ANOATOK, #409s GANNET, #408s PELICAN, #446s ALERION, #416s ALPHA, #406s IRIS, and #461s COCK ROBIN. With note 'Blueprint 2. Sept 20, 1895.'" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_70900. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F06, formerly MRDE15. 1895-09-20.)
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"[Item Description:] Untitled table providing data for Rig, Kind of c.b. or keel, Waterline, Draft, Displacement, Sail area, Racing length and others for #435s COLONIA, #437s VIGILANT, #452s DEFENDER, JUBILEE, QUEEN MAB, HURON, #414s WASP, #451s NIAGARA, UVIRA, #422s HANDSEL, #449s ANOATOK, #409s GANNET, #408s PELICAN, #446s ALERION, #416s ALPHA, and #406s IRIS. Much appears to be the same data as that provided in the table titled 'Examples of the Application of Proposed Measurement Rule for the the New York Yacht Club' and dated September 20, 1895, suggesting this to be the draft also dated similar. With envelope labeled in pencil 'Original N.G.H.'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_70920. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F06, formerly MRDE15. No date (ca1895-09-20).)
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"[Item Description:] #449s ANOATOK fin-keel was unable to beat #422s HANDSEL; how to make her faster?" (Source: Owen, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_02390. Correspondence, Folder 1_14, formerly 232. 1895-10-20.)
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"[Item Description:] have been thinking over a craft for you, an enlarged #461s COCK ROBIN would be very good for you, able and very fast, arrangements compared to #449s ANOATOK, 44ft overall, advise rig similar to ANOATOK, if you prefer topsail this could be set on polemast as on #439s MEMORY ex-ALERION I, cannot give you definite price as my brother is away, around $4,000, it looks as if the proposed [by Herman Duryea] 46 foot class [#189702es Unbuilt Special 46ft Class of 1898] will not mature and if so would be pleased to take up the matter at once [Owen subsequently contracted for #487s ONWARD], (fragment)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to George Owen. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_12840. Correspondence, Folder 36, formerly 189. 1897-10-04.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #449s Anoatok even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Anoatok (HMCo-made index card)
• Anoatok (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: Anoatok
Type: J & M
Length: 30'
Owner: Owen, George

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

• Anoatok
• Anoatok questionable
• 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: Anoatok
Type: 30' 3" fin keeler
Owner: George Owens
Year: 1895
Row No.: 38

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: Oct
Day: 19
Year: 1894
E/P/S: S
No.: 0449
Name: Anoatok
LW: 30'
B: 8' 7"
D: 7' 2"
Rig: J & M
K: FK
Ballast: Lead
Amount: $3000.00
Last Name: Owens [sic, i.e. Owen]
First Name: Geo.

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.

"Displacement 13850lbs from note in NGH design booklet dated June 27, 1904 (on page dated on top October 14, 1894)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 30, 2014.)

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