HMCo #519s Next

"[1899-03-14] Tue 14: L[igh]t snow & rain [with] N [wind]. Have orders for 2 more 15 footer [probably #518s Sis and #519s Next]. ...
[1899-06-03] Sat 3: Very fine & warm. L[igh]t NE [wind in] AM. L[igh]t SSW [wind in] PM. ... Launched three 15 footers. [A total of seven BB15s were launched on June 3 and June 7, 1899 and they were probably these boats: #503s Vim, #504s Flickamaroo, #505s Peacock, #506s Eaglet, #507s Compress, #509s Go Bye and #519s Next]
[1899-06-04] Sun 4: Very fine. Went to Newport in Kildee [#460s] with boys in company of five 15 footers. [Six of the first ten BB15s had been launched by this day and the five BB15s that were sailed on this day must have come from the following group of boats: #503s Vim, #504s Flickamaroo, #505s Peacock, #506s Eaglet, #507s Compress, #508s Teaser, #509s Go Bye, #511s Uarda, #518s Sis, and #519s Next.]
[1899-06-07] Wed 7 Very hot last night with (?). Lowest [temperature] in night 72° and 80° in forenoon. Wind fresh E in PM with falling temp[erature], 57° in evening. [Illegible]. Launched #502 Cyrilla and 4 15 footers. [A total of seven BB15s were launched on June 3 and June 7, 1899 and they were probably these boats: #503s Vim, #504s Flickamaroo, #505s Peacock, #506s Eaglet, #507s Compress, #509s Go Bye and #519s Next.]
[1899-06-11] Sun 11: Very fine. ... Delivered 10 15 footers [probably #503 Vim, #504 Flickamaroo, #505 Peacock, #506 Eaglet, #507 Compress, #508 Teaser, #509 Go Bye, #511 Uarda, #518 Sis and #519 Next]; Cyrilla [#502s], 21 ft, Nautilus [#?s] & Widgeon [#?s]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1899. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"... Buzzards Bay 15 [Name], 503+ [Building Number], 16.8 [Rating], 15 [Waterline], 16.56 [L = length at 1/4 beam as for Universal Rule], 5.98 [B = breadth of waterline as for Universal Rule], 2.4 [d = draft of water as for Universal Rule], 38 [D = displacement in cubic foot as for Universal Rule (= 2,432 lbs or 1.1 long tons)], 352.5 [Sail Area], 500 [Sail limit Present rule], -147.5 [Diff.], 326 [Sail limit Proposed rule], 26.5 [Diff.], Requires crew to windward [Notes] ..." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule Formula." Bristol, R.I., July 13, 1907 with later additions. Original handwritten (in ink) document with penciled additions. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00080.)

"Also in 1899, the Buzzards Bay Fifteen Footers started, first with an order of seven, but augmented to seventeen. This class has been added to for thirty-one years, so there have been about eighty built." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Some of the Boats I Have Sailed In." Written 1934. In: Pinheiro, Carlton J. (ed.). Recollections and Other Writings by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. Bristol, 1998, p. 67.)

"... Herreshoff has the one-design 15-footers for the Buzzards bay racing of the Beverly yacht club all completed except the last one ordered [#521s Kirstie], which is for N. F. Emmons. There are now 11 of these boats, and they promise some lively racing. ... [Note: The 11 boats were: #503s Vim, #504s Flickermaru, #505s Peacock, #506s Eaglet, #507s Compress, #508s Teaser, #509s Go Bye, #511s Uarda, #518s Sis, #519s Next, and #521s Kirstie.]" (Source: Robinson, W. E. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Globe, April 23, 1899, p. 27.)

"... The Herreshofft are also constructing 16 boats for members of the Beverly Yacht Club of Beverly, Mass. Most of these will be used in Buzzard's Bay. Thirteen of these boats are 15 feet on the water line and have centreboards [Buzzards Bay 15]. They are exactly alike and will be drawn for by their owners by number as were the famous Herreshof 30-footers in '97 [Newport 30s]. Two [#501s Quakeress and #502s Cyrilla] of the 16 are to be 21 feet on the water line and the other is a 25-footer [#514s May Queen]. ..." (Source: Anon. "Hustling At Herreshoff's." Bristol Phoenix, April 28, 1899, p. 1.)

"[Item Transcription:] Typewritten (carbon copy) table titled 'Memorandum' with penciled additions listing boats built 1898/1899 with columns labeled 'No.', 'W.L.', 'Rig', 'To deliver', followed in some cases by penciled data for Boat Name and Actual Delivery Date. Relevant contents:
#519s NEXT [W.L.:] 15ft [Rig:] J.&.M. C.B. [Note:] One design class." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.. (creator) and Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Memorandum. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDW02_01300. Folder [no #]. No date (1898-04 ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #519s Next even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Cheever, David. "The Herreshoff Fifteens." The Log of Mystic Seaport, v. 24, No. 2., Summer 1972, p. 38-44. (106 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Short class history, detailed vessel description and appreciation and a thrilling account of a typical race of Buzzards Bay 15 at the Beverly Yacht Club. Special focus on #554s Fiddler ex-Nora, now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.
• Brainerd, Alec with Bernard H. Gustin and Steven K. Nagy. "The Herreshoff 15 is Alive and Well." In: Herreshoff Marine Museum (Publisher). Proceedings. The Classic Yacht Symposium 2010. Bristol, R.I. 2010. (5,834 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Copyright holder: Alec Brainerd, Bernard H. Gustin, Steven K. Nagy / Herreshoff Marine Museum. Class history, construction and restoration comments, building and sailing a replica, detailed class register (including replicas). Photos, drawings.
• van der Linde, Claas. "Herreshoff 15-Footers: Building Dates and Model Variations." December 7, 2021. (380 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Claas van der Linde. Tabular summary of Herreshoff 15-footer construction dates and model variations. Together with information of BB15 sail numbers, boat names and boat owners from various year books of the Beverly Yacht Club.

• Next (HMCo-made index card)
• Next (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: Next
Type: J & M
Length: 15'
Owner: Emmons, R. W.

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

• Next
• Ranzo ex-Next
• 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: Next
Type: 15' Buzzards Bay
Owner: R. W. Emmons
Year: 1899
Row No.: 475

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.

Year: 1899
E/P/S: S
No.: 0519
Name: Next
LW: 15'
B: 6' 9"
D: 2' 4"
Rig: J & M
K: K &
CB: y
Ballast: Lead [sic, i.e. Lead outside]
Amount: 666.66
Notes Constr. Record: as 503 - B.B.
Last Name: Emmons
First Name: R. 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.

"Regular Buzzards Bay 15s had a 15-foot waterline, 6' 9" beam, 2' 3" draft plus a centerboard, gaff rig, and a coaming that curves around the front of the cockpit." (Source: Nagy, Steve. June 1, 2008.)

"Sail number M (1899-1901), E-8 (1901-1919).This boat is missing it's builder's plate. Work is being done to validate this hull number assignment." (Source: Nagy, Steve. Herreshoff Registry, http://www.herreshoffregistry.org/detail.php?hull=519, retrieved February 28, 2014.)

"Under the names of Next and Ranzo this boat carried the sail number E-8 as per Beverly Yacht Club yearbooks. In the 1930s a BB-15 named Arjay was listed in the BYC yearbooks with the same sail number, but there is no way of verifying if it was the same boat or not." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 23, 2014.)

"According to notes taken by Bill Beardsley the owner Dave Petersen thinks his boat is #519s ex-Next while the Beverly Yacht Club yearbooks suggest there is a good possibility that it is #609s (which was originally assigned the sail number 13, the same number that #519s carried when coming into Petersen's possession)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 23, 2014.)

"According to an Email by Bill Beardsley, this boat was cut up in 2014 or earlier by its owner Dave Petersen of the Wooden Tangent in Mattapoisett who had owned it at least since 2008. He saved the ballast and hardware and some bits and pieces in cluding the entire bow." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 9, 2015.)

"Built in 89 days (contract to delivered; equivalent to $7/day, 27 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"[Sail area 352.5 sq.ft.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule Formula." Bristol, R.I., July 13, 1907 with later additions. Original handwritten (in ink) document with penciled additions. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00080.)

"[Displacement (38 cubic feet = 2432 lbs).]" (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. "Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule Formula." Bristol, R.I., July 13, 1907 with later additions. Original handwritten (in ink) document with penciled additions. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00080.)

"Cut up by its owner Dave Petersen in 2014 or earlier." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 9, 2015.)

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