HMCo #490s Wanda

"[1898-05-10] Tue 10: White frost & ice. Very fine. Fresh SSW in p.m. Launched #490 Wanda. ...
[1898-05-12] Thu 12: Strong SSW [wind] all day. A little rain last night. Tried Wanda [#490s] and also Onward [#487s].
[1898-05-14] Sat 14: Very fine. L[igh]t NW [wind in] a.m. Mod[erate] SW to SE [in] p.m. Tried and delivered Wanda [#490s]. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1898. Manuscript (excerpts). Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.)

"No. 490.
Centreboard cat
Frame spaces 10 1/2"
Deduct for planking 5/8"
Deduct for timbers 1 1/8"
[Total] 1 3/4"
Timbers molded 1 1/8 x
[Timbers] sided 1"
(Intermediates[?] 7/8 square
19 set)
Crown [of] deck 5" in 12feet
Crown [of] house 6 1/4"." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.107.] No date (ca. January 1898). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"One of the remarkable small sailboats of the late eighteen-nineties that Captain Nat designed was the racing catboat 'Wander,' [sic, i.e. Wanda] twenty-one feet nine inches water line, built for Mr. E. T. Bedford. She had quite large overhangs and low ends and proved most successful in racing on the Sound where she had to compete with some very fast cats that had descended from the sandbaggers and were hotly raced." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953, p. 204.)

"INDIAN HARBOR REGATTA. ... THE WANDA'S EASY VICTORY.
... The latest Herreshoff cabin catboat Wanda literally spreadeagled her field in the twenty-five foot class, and even sailed away from the thirty-footers, among which were Charles T. Pierce's new boat, Dot.
The Wanda is practically a fin-keel beat, but has a centreboard dropped through the fin. Her deck has a pronounced crown, and the top of her cabin house is not more than eight inches above the sweeping line of he deck, and, of course, she carries a relatively large sail spread. ..." (Source: Anon. "Indian Harbor Regatta." New York Times, June 26, 1898, p. 5.)

"... The Herreshoff Catboat 'Wanda.'
13 Starts 13 Firsts.
May 16th [1892]. - Norwalk.
May 30th. - Norwalk.
June 25th - Indian Harbor.
July 2d. - New Rochelle.
July 4th. - Larchmont.
July 9th. - Riverside.
July 14th. - Seawanhaka; won in 30-foot class by eight minutes actual time.
July 23d. - Norwalk.
July 30th. - Indian Harbor; won on resail.
August 13th. - Horseshoe; 30-foot class by twenty-six minutes.
August 20th. - Huguenot.
August 26th. - Huntington.
September 3d. - Atlantic.
25-foot cabin catboat Wanda, 21ft. 9in., l.w.l.; 30ft. o. a.; beam 12ft
Designed and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, R. I.
Owned by F. T. Bedford, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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A successful racing cat is the 25-foot cabin craft Wanda, designed and built by the Herreshoffs, for Mr. F. T. Bedford, Jr., of Brooklyn. She is 30 feet over all, 21 feet 9 inches on the load water-line, with 12 feet beam. Her record for 1898 was thirteen starts and thirteen firsts. By a glance at the illustration of Wanda it will be seen that Mr. Nat Herreshoff, her designer, has introduced the modified form of fin keel which he exploited so successfully in Vigilant. Wanda, in point of fact, was designed and built to elude the measurement rule in force at the time of her creation. Like Gloriana, when heeled, she gets the benefit of long overhangs forward and aft, while at the same time she escapes the penalty of excessive length on the load water-line. Taking into consideration all her features, it must be candidly acknowledged that she is the most 'scientific' cat-boat that 'tonnage-cheating' ingenuity ever devised. Both the principles of yacht designing that worked so admirably in Vigilant and Gloriana, namely the large lateral plane and the increased water-line length, when heeled, have been embodied in Wanda. The result has been a gratifying success. Cat-boats of the olden time used to measure about the same length over all and on the water-line. It remained for Mr. Herreshoff to produce a boat 21 feet on the water-line with an over-all length of 30 feet." (Source: Kenealy, A. J. "The Type of Yacht. Keel, Centerboard or Bulb-Fin." Outing, March 1899, p. 577-584.)

"Wanda, cat, has been sold by E. T. Bedford, to J. R. Suydam, who will race her on Great South Bay." (Source: Anon. [No title?] Forest and Stream, March 11, 1899, p. 200."

"... J. W. Lawrence's Kid will have a new competitor in William Kreamer's sloop Evangeline, which was originally the Herreshoff cat, Wanda, which boat won nineteen races on Long Island sound before she came to the Great South bay in 1900. The Evangeline will be sailed by Fred Thurber, the famous racing skipper of Patchogue." (Source: Anon. "Big Annual Cruise and Regatta of the Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association to Begin Tuesday. Yachts Here Next Week." South Side Signal., August 7, 1914, p 1.)

"Queen of the Bay Cup Event Has 20 Entries So Far, Including a Number of Previous Winners. ...
Twenty yachts have so far entered the Queen of the Bay Cup race over the Babylon Yacht club course tomorrow at 2:15 P.M. Among those expected to start are W. Tyson Hayward's Count, Clarence Westin's Dixie, J. E. Rudolph's Eagle, the last two hailing from Sayville and being former winners of this trophy; Fred Thurber's Wanda, of Patchogue; J. W. Overton's Alva from Bellport and a large number of smaller yachts from Amityville, Bay Shore and Bellport. ..." (Source: Anon. "Big Yacht Race Is On Tomorrow." South Side Signal (Babylon, Long Island, New York), August 10, 1917, p. 1.)

"The first boat I ever raced, a catboat, was so far out of the running, it usually finished among the leaders of the following race.
Then I had a catboat built for me by Herreshoff. Its name was Wanda [#490s], and it became quite a famous name. This second catboat of mine was built so well that after a while I had to put a rope through the centreboard and agree to drag along a load of scrap iron before I could get anybody to race me.
As one fellow expressed it, the Wanda made junk out of hundreds of Long Island Sound catboats. The Merry Thought [#428s], built by Herreshoff for John P. Crozier, of Philadelphia, about 1900, worked the same havoc, I understand, in Barnegat Bay. Catboat racing had to be dropped from the list of events because the result was foreknown as soon as the Merry Thought reported at the starting line." (Source: Bedford, F. T. "One-Design." In: Schoettle, Edwin J. American Catboats. In: Schoettle, Edwin J. Sailing Craft. New York, 1928, p. 27.)

"The racing of catboats on the Sound was more or less discontinued when Herreshoff built the Wanda for Mr. Fred Bedford, which so outclassed all its rivals that boat builders and owners were discouraged from making further efforts to compete. It would be a pleasure to produce the drawings of Wanda, but, like all Herreshoff productions, they are not available.
Herreshoff, when designing Wanda [#490s] and Merry Thought [#428s], created two yachts of entirely different models. The Wanda, lightly built with short waterline and long overhangs, was more or less a racing machine, although in use today. The Merry Thought was just as heavily built as the Wanda was light in construction, and her measurements --- length overall 32', waterline 26', beam 10' 8", draft 2' 8" --- produced a powerful, fast, safe, and heavy weather boat that was as useful at sea as on Barnegat Bay. This is proven by the fact that she sailed many ocean races in strong winds and high seas. ...
It is interesting to state that when these boats were built in the '90's the average builder's price for a 30-foot catboat, completely rigged, was about $1,000 to $1,200. The Herreshoff creations cost over $5,000 each [sic; the construction record lists $2,125 for Merry Thought and $2,100 for Wanda], and for that reason their purchase was limited to men of means. These boats, which eliminated the old-fashioned plumb-stem cats, did so because of the good hull lines that cheated the waterline length, thus guaranteeing generous handicaps, and because of well cut and designed sails too expensive for the fisherman to duplicate. If deck length alone had been used their result would not have been so victorious. If half a dozen boats, well designed, could eliminate hundreds of others from races, is it any wonder that single design boats for races became the vogue in this century?" (Source: Schoettle, Edwin J. American Catboats. In: Schoettle, Edwin J. Sailing Craft. New York, 1928, p. 100-101.)

"A little later [than 1899] I changed a Herreshoff catboat named Wanda for John Suydam, a South Bay yachtsman, into a sloop because Herreshoff refused to do so. Wanda was an extraordinarily fast catboat which Herreshoff had built for Fred Bedford, and the study of her form and construction, which was necessary in properly designing a sloop rig, enabled me to design a boat for Suydam the next year, named Arrow, which was considerably faster than Wanda." (Source: Crane, Clinton. Clinton Crane's Yachting Memories, New York, 1952, p. 101.)

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"[Item Description:] Typewritten (carbon copy) specifications titled 'Memorandum from specifications for Cat Boat for 25 foot class [#490s WANDA]'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.. (creator). Specifications. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_01560. Folder [no #]. No date (1897-12 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curves titled '2nd trial. 22 1/2[ft] w.l. Cat. Dec[ember] 12 [18]97. 25ft racing meas[urement] [#490 WANDA]. Model sale 1in'. With calculations arriving at a displacement of 98.8cuft = 6360lbs plus 450[lbs] 'approx. for keel' = 6810[lbs]. On verso another set of penciled pantograph hull sections titled '1sd trial' with calculations arriving at a displacement of 97.0cuft = 6250lbs plus 450[lbs] 'approx. for keel' = 6700[lbs]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_05380. Folder [no #]. 1897-12-12.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan sketch titled '1898. Not used. for 490 [#490s WANDA]'. With calculations arriving at a total weight of 6810[lbs] and notes regarding different sail configurations and actual vs. measured sail areas (780sqft, 799sqft, 758sqft, 735sqft, etc). Undated (WANDA was contracted for December 24, 1897)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03010. Folder [no #]. No date (ca 1897-12-24).)
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"[Item Description:] Two sets of penciled pantograph hull sections and calculations, one titled '1st trial. Jan 1st [18]97[sic, i.e. 1898?]. 21.5ft w.l.', the other titled 'Model scale 1/2ft. 22ft wl.l. 2nd trial. Weight calculations of first trial show an estimated weight of 6280ls. Calculation for 2nd trial show an estimated weight of 6820lbs. Dimensions, date and visual inspection suggest this to be related to the design of #490s WANDA, probably to Model 1326. Compare with 2004.0001.0411 which shows a later model." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0412. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. 1898[?]-01-01.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '1st. trial. Model scale 3/4in. 22[ft] w.l. 2[ft]5 racing meas[urement]. Jan[uary] 3rd.' With calculations showing a total displacement of 108.8cuft or 7000lbs. On verso another set of penciled pantograph hull sections titled '2nd trial Jan[uary] 3rd [1898]. 22ft 5in w.l.' with calculations showing a total displacement of 98.0cuft or 6300lbs. Dimensions and visual inspection suggest this to be related to the design of #490s WANDA, probably to Model 1007. Compare with 2004.0001.0412 which shows an earlier model." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0411. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. (1898-)01-03.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '3rd trial. Scale 3/4. 21ft 9in w.l. 25ft racing meas[urement]. Jan[uary] 5th [18]98. Trial, sheer line to be cut down 1 1/2in. No. 490 [#490 WANDA]'. With calculations arriving at a displacement of 102.8cuft = 6610lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_05360. Folder [no #]. 1898-01-05.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Kell & lead for No. 490 [#490s WANDA] Scale length 1/8. Sclae breadth & depth 1/4. Dec[ember] 17, 1898'. With calculations arriving at 2425lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_09060. Folder [no #]. 1898-12-17.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketched mid-sections and a small sailplan sketch on both sides of an envelope from 'The Rudder' to NGH in Bristol. With calculations and note '#530 [ELECTRA]. For G[rea]t So[uth] Bay. (L*sqrt(S))/2 = 36. Measure without crew on board. 8 men is limit, to have low cabin house after stule of WANDA [#490s]. WANDA type is liked'. On verso another mideship section. Undated (this appears to be the original sketch for ELECTRA which was contracted for in September 1899)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_03270. Folder [no #]. No date (1899-09 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] I want to be among the first to congratulate you and your company on the success achieved by the 'COLUMBIA' [#499s]. It was a great victory, and to some of our mutual friends a pleasant surprise. Just why this is so I cannot understand. Please accept from my son and myself my most hearty congratulations.
This summer we have been without a boat, and have been thinking of asking you whether you would not be willing to consider designing and building a little boat for us next summer. If I remember rightly, you suggested, when the WANDA [#490s] was built, that we would do very much better to have a small knockabout. Well, what we need is a boat that one man can handle, and whose draft will not be greater than that of the WANDA on account of our shallow harbor at Southport; a boat that the boys can occasionally sail in a race, with a chance of winning, for I am afraid we are rather bad losers. [This will become #536s SIS.] " (Source: Bedford, E.T. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_52780. Subject Files, Folder 46, formerly 60. 1899-10-21.)
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"[Item Description:] ARROW designed by Crane appears to be modeled after #490s WANDA, 25ft larger than #582s ELECTRA, can you suggest anything that would improve ELECTRA's sailing in light air" (Source: Havemeyer, H.O. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17550. Correspondence, Folder 47. 1902-07-05.)
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"[Item Description:] #582s ELECTRA won against ARROW in violent wind, #490s WANDA did well" (Source: Havemeyer, H.O. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17570. Correspondence, Folder 47. 1902-09-09.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Typewritten (carbon copy) letter marked 'Copy':] 117 Wall St.,
New York.
Jan. 19, 1903.
Mr. Nath'l G. Herreshoff,
Bristol, R. I.
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 16th at hand, I am going to avail of your kind offices and have you build a boat [#607s FLIGHT]. I fear from the nature of the boat I want she will come more or less in the category of freaks, a style I know that you have little interest in, but at the same time, for use in the Great South Bay, an indispensable style to meet the competition that exists there, and probably always will exist on account of the poor depth of water.
She is to be in the 30ft class, i.e., length of water line, plus square root of sail area divided by two, and her water line will be determined when her crew of 750 pounds is aboard. She is to be essentially a light weather boat.
I enclose something taken out of the paper this morning, which will give an idea of what is going on with 25ft water line boats in the way of square feet of sail.
The draft of the boat must not exceed 3ft. All the boats that you have built for me appear to suck the bottom when under way, even at that draft. The less draft this boat has, that will enable her to carry her sail, the better. The ELECTRA [#582s] last year beat the WANDA [#490s] as she did the ARROW, on account of the heavy wind and sea. I doubt very much if the ELECTRA could beat the WANDA in ordinary weather, i.e., when the WANDA could carry her full sail, on time allowance. [p. 2]
I am sure she could not beat the ARROW, Although the ARROW does not point quite as high as the ELECTRA, of course I mean when she is carrying her full sail. The ARROW outfoots her enough to make up the difference, and off the wind she can beat the ELECTRA close to half a minute in a mile.
I should like her cabin to be open --- nothing in front whatever, and her cockpit to be down on the flooring. It may be that where the cockpit ends you may have to step down a foot to get in the cabin. These details I suppose could be referred to me later.
I should like to have her ready on the 1st of May; would take her earlier. The skippers in the Bay think that wooden blocks would be light, and run much easier in the rigging. This refers particularly to the main sheet blocks. The top of the cabin is to be covered with canvas, and to be open at the sides, the same as the ELECTRA, and the deck is to be covered with canvas. She is likewise to have a bowsprit, which you will recollect the PLEASURE [#545s] did not have.
It all comes down to what my boy answered when I spoke to him if he had anything to suggest about the detail of the boat --- 'Leave the matter entirely to Mr. Herreshoff, merely stating that she must be a boat to sail in light airs.'
Yours truly, ...
H. O. Havemeyer." (Source: Havemeyer, H.O. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_02530. Folder [no #]. 1903-01-19.)
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"[Item Description:] [almost unreadable], #582s ELECTRA, #490s WANDA, incl. NGH reply: in regard of proposed new class, since advent of Universal Rule yachts have very much improved, much abler craft and pleasanter to sail, you can get this statement verified by anyone who owns a boat built under the new rule who formerly had experience in the flat ended scow formed boats, I am sure the type will sooner or later be seen in Great South Bay and if you start it it will develop and give your young people a good type of boat, [next two sentences crossed out:] I consider all the boats we have built for you excepting #545s PLEASURE and #582s ELECTRA II, freaks to beat the waterline measurement rule and WANDA is the most extreme being built to sail under the same rule in L.I. Sound, she is one of the fastest and also meanest boat I ever designed, I would like to see a better type spring up in your waters as well as elsewhere along the coast, however if you prefer the old type we can build them as well as any and I think will still be able to turn out successful ones, I cannot agree with you that WANDA, #607s FLIGHT & #530s ELECTRA I are a better type than ELECTRA II, but admit fully that comparing by waterline length when measured lying still they are much faster, they were designed to beat that way of measuring and do it successfully, they are larger boats for the waterline length and get the advantage of the size in racing but are a poor type of boat for any use but racing in your shallow water bay where moderate breezes and smooth waters prevail, ordinarily the enjoyment of yacht racing comes from sailing the yacht to wit out against your antagonist and showing greater ability in the art of sailing a yacht, there are very few who look upon it as you do and prefer a yacht that is like a race horse and of little use except for racing, when you proposed to get up a new class it seemed to me it would be better to make it a type that would be popular with the ordinary yachtsman and that in view submitted the draft of rules and restrictions that should produce a good wholesome and fast boat, probably faster than any you now have on the Bay providing they were all measured and sailed under the Universal Rule which does not use water line length as a measurement at all, I will state that I don't like the flat scow type of boats and much prefer to design and built a type of more general use, but if you desire [I] will try my hand at any type you will decide on as I have heretofore with fair success" (Source: Havemeyer, H.O. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17680. Correspondence, Folder 47. 1907-09-07.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #490s Wanda even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Grayson, Stan. Herreshoff Catboats. The Roots of a Boatbuilding Dynasty." Wooden Boat #289, November/December 2022, p. 58-67. (1,855 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Detailed, well-written story about Herreshoff catboats, from early boats such as Sprite and the four Julias which were all built before the founding off the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company to the numerous small catboats like Dandelion and Bluebell, many of which were delivered to Boston yachtsmen and most of which were also built before the founding of HMCo to the later, often very extreme and rule-beating catboats such as Wanda. With some minor errors, not all Julias were keelboats, Dexter Stone was from Philadelphia and not just a local yachtsman, Peri was not built for W. Starling Burgess, and Bluebell was built for Ed. Burgess with no proof that this was Edward Burgess.
• Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "Memorandum from specifications for Cat Boat for 25 foot class [#490s Wanda]." No place [Bristol], no date [December? 1897]. (336 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. Vessel specifications for #490s Wanda.

• Wanda (HMCo-made index card)
• Wanda (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: Wanda
Type: Cat
Length: 21'9"
Owner: Bedford, E. T.

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

• Wanda
• 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: Wanda
Type: 23' cat
Owner: E. T. Bedford
Year: 1898
Row No.: 738

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: 24
Year: 1897
E/P/S: S
No.: 0490
Name: Wanda
LW: 21' 9"
B: 10' 1"
D: 2' 11"
Rig: Cat
CB: y
Ballast: Lead (o)
Amount: 2100.00
Last Name: Bedford
First Name: E. T.

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.

"Dimensions from Lloyd's Register and confirmed by HMCo construction drawing." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 2, 2008.)

"F[rederick] T[homas] Bedford was a son of E[dward] T[homas] Bedford who had made his money in Standard Oil and then created Corn Products, later CPC International. F.T. made his own fortune, partly in liquor of which his father highly disapproved (E.T. was a teetotaler)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 9, 2012.)

"Note that two models were made for Wanda, Model 1007 and Model 1326 which appears to be a preliminary model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 5, 2019.)

"Built in 137 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $15/day, 50 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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