HMCo #482s Sally III

"[1896-12-05] Sat 5: ... Have order for 21' Knockab[out] [#482s Sally III] for Mr. Percival.
[1897-03-04] Thu 4: Began setting up #482 [Sally III], 21 footer.
[1897-03-08] Mon 8: Began planking #482 [Sally III]. ...
[1897-03-18] Thu 18: ... Turned over #482 [Sally III].
[1897-05-04] Tue 4: Launched #480 Hazard & 482 Sally III [#482s]. ...
[1897-05-10] Mon 10: Rigged Sally III [#482s]. ...
[1897-05-15] Sat 15: Katrina [#189p], Hazard [#480s] & Sally III [#482s] delivered & sailed. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1896 to 1897. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"Jan[uary] 1897.
No. 482 [#482s Sally III] and 483 [#483s Cockatoo].
Frame spaces 10 1/2".
Small side of timbers set to spacings.
Timbers to work not less than 1" space in any part. To be sided 1" at head, increasing 1/16" per foot for full length. Moulded to bevel off to 1" on small side.
Deduct in making moulds for timbers 1", planking 3/4", total 1 3/4".
Use lead pattern of #461 [Cock Robin] after adding to top 0" at forward end, 3 1/4" at aft end. Also on back end for increased rake of sternpost." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.103.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BOSTON, May 1 [1897]. --- ... The boat [Hazard #480s] in the same [knockabout] class which the Herreshoffs have built for H. M. Sears of this City is ready for launching, but will not be put over just yet, as her owner will wait for W. O. Gay's boat [Fly #485s] to be finished, when a race to Boston round the Cape will be in order. The Gay boat will be ready about the middle of May. The fourth Herreshoff knockabout [Sally III #482s], built to the order of D. C. Percival, Jr., will be launched early in May. ..." (Source: Anon. "Trial of the Cockatoo. Herreshoff's Knockabout Built for C.S. Eaton Sails Well." New York Times, May 2, 1897, p. 4.)

"Bristol, R. I., May 4 [1897]. --- Two more of the four 21-foot knockabouts ordered from the Herreshoffs by Boston yachtsmen were launched this morning, the Hazard [#480s] for H. M. Sears, who last year owned and raced the Water Lily, and the Sally III [#482s] for D. C. Percival Jr. who thus comes into possession of the third boat which he has owned and raced in the class. ...
Sally III is in every way a duplicate of the Cockatoo, except possibly slight changes in the sail plan. ...
The boats are painted white, and look able and speedy." (Source: Anon. "Two More Knockabouts. Only One Boat Ordered by Boston Yachtsmen from the Herreshoff's Remains to be Launched from Bristol." Boston Globe, May 5, 1897, p. 9.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., June 12 [1909] --- ... Two 21-ft knockabouts of Massachusetts bay, the Fly [#485s] and Fancy [#482s ex-Sally III], owned by Clarence W. Barron of Boston, arrived here in charge of Capts Grasse and Oleson last Tuesday to be overhauled and fitted out at Herreshoff's for the season's racing at Marblehead. These boats were built at Herreshoff's some 12 years ago. They came from Cohasset, leaving there June 5, harboring later at Provincetown for two days, and leaving Hyannis harbor on Tuesday morning last, reached here the afternoon of the same day without accident and, according to the skippers, making very good weather. ..." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, June 13, 1909, p. 41.)

"The first race of season off the Marblehead station of the Boston yacht club, a club race, will be sailed this afternoon, with the preparatory signal at 2:15. In addition to the regular classes ... a class for the 21-foot knockabouts will be sailed.
Early this year Frederick L. Gay, a member of the club, offered a special cup for racing among the boats of the club that conformed to the restrictions of the old 21-foot knockabout association, and today's race is the first arranged for the class. In former years, when this class was active in the racing, no better sport was seen anywhere along the coast than that provided by these boats, which were limited to 21 feet on the water line and carried 600 square feet of sail.
Mr Gay's idea in offering his trophy was to revive interest in this class, which produced a good wholesome boat that was quite fast.
In today's race it is expected that at least the Clitheroe, formerly the Cock Robin [#461s], and now owned by Walter L. Dean, the Nike, the Aspinet, the Fly [#485s] and the Fancy [#482s ex-Sally III] will start. The Cock Robin, which was designed and built by Herreshoff for C. S. Eaton back in the early [18]'90s and which was raced by William P. Fowle, never lost a championship while in the class. ..." (Source: Anon. "Revival Of Old Class. Event for 21-Foot Knockabouts Will Be a Feature of Boston Y. C, Race Off Marblehead Today." Boston Globe, July 3, 1909, p. 4.)

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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #482s Sally III even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Sally III (HMCo-made index card)
• Sally III (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: Sally III
Type: J & M
Length: 21'
Owner: Percival, D. C.

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

• Sally III
• 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: Sally III
Type: 21' J & M
Owner: D. C. Percival
Row No.: 587

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: Dec
Day: 5
Year: 1896
E/P/S: S
No.: 0482
Name: Sally III
LW: 21'
B: 7' 7"
D: 5' 9"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead
Amount: 2150.00
Notes Constr. Record: 1909 "Fancy" C.W. Parson.
Last Name: Percival
First Name: D. C.

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.

"Built in 150 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $14/day, 45 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"[Sail area 500sqft as per maximum allowed in knockabout rule.]" (Source: Anon. "Trial of the Cockatoo. Herreshoff's Knockabout Built for C.S. Eaton Sails Well." New York Times, May 2, 1897, p. 4.)

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