HMCo #569s Mashnee

"[1901-02-06] Wed 6: NW gale & cold. 8 plates on #551. Mr. Emmons ordered a 21’ raceabout for Buzzards Bay [#555s, not built. #569s Mashnee may have taken its place].
[1902-02-17] Mon 17: NE snow storm set in last night. Heavy gale and falling barometer. Lowest [reading was] 28.75 at 7PM. About 7in. snow & rain. Launched 30 footer No. 569 [Mashnee] in afternoon." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1901 to 1902. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Nos. 560 - 567 inclusive [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (also: #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. B-3-m [sic].
Buzzards Bay 30ft Cruising Class.
Frame spaces 12 1/3" [center symbol] to [center symbol].
Planking 1 1/8".
Keel 3 7/8" deep. 1 3/8" below rabbate.
Overhang timbers, forward 3 7/8", aft 2 7/8".
Centre board slot (only in false keel) 3".
Timbers sided 1 7/8".
Timbers tapered 1" in 7' 6" x 0." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.131.] Undated, ca. August 1901. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Fourteen Buzzards Bay Thirty Footers were built in 1902." (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. 68.)

"While most of the yachts built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1902 were steam or rather small sail yachts, they did build the one-design class of Buzzards Bay thirty-footers. There were twelve of these and their dimensions were: L.O.A., forty-six feet six inches; L.W.L., thirty feet; beam, ten feet ten inches; draft, five feet four inches; weight of lead about ten thousand pounds; S.A. one thousand three hundred and twenty-five square feet. They were centerboarders for the shallow waters of Buzzards Bay, and originally set a small club topsail from their masthead which was run up a little above the peak halyards and jib stay. They may be distinguished from the Bar Harbor Thirties by this peculiarity. Some of the Buzzards Bay Thirties are still going and make good cruisers with their shallow draft if the rig has been reduced and modernized." (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. 226.)

"... I claim Mr. Emmons was the first to make practical use of what is now called a lapping jib, or Genoa jib. It is also interesting that Mr. Emmons told me he had used such a sail (we then called them flat-cut balloon jibs), on his Buzzards Bay Thirty [#569s Mashnee] in 1902. While I agree with the old saying that there is nothing new under the sun, and that English cutters have carried what is called a balloon forestaysail since about 1850, still I like to credit Bob Emmons with the first practical use of large jibs when close-hauled." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. An Introduction to Yachting. New York, 1963, p. 171.)

"There is considerable bustle in constructing the new centreboard thirty-footers at the Herreshoff shops. There is no time to throw away if the fourteen boats are to be ready in time for the beginning of the yachting season. It is understood that the boats will be drawn by lot the first part of April. Two-thirds of the fleet is now completed. Eight are stored in Walker's Cove yard." (Source: Anon. "Yachts in Bristol Yards." New York Times, January 10, 1902, p. 10.)

"Mashnee, sloop (#569), of Bristol.
Built at [blank] [sic, i.e. Bristol at HMCo].
10.42 gross tons, 8.73 tons; 36 ft. x 10.8 ft. x 5.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, [no date? (March 20, 1902 or March 26, 1902?)]." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Mashnee.)

"... The work of finishing the construction of the last boat [probably #583s Game Cock] of the fleet of the centreboard thirty-footers is carried on briskly in the Herreshoff shops. One of the class just put overboard is at anchor in Walker's Cove. The fleet is to be taken over to Buzzard's Bay about the middle of May.
R. W. Emmons sent a Deer Island seaman, Clarence Dow, to Bristol to be sailing master of his new thirty-footer [#569s Mashnee], but Mr. Emmons probably will have to engage another man, as Capt. Dow has taken an engagement as sailing master of Designer A. S. Chesebrough's sloop yacht Onward, which position he held last year. ..." (Source: Anon. Yachting News of Bristol. New York Times, April 14, 1902, p. 10.)

"The last of the special class of 30-footers built to race in Massachusetts waters was launched from Herreshoff's yesterday. The drawing for boats in this class was made this week and the names of the yachts will be put on the sterns. The boats are named Auria [sic, i.e. #566s Arria], Anita [#576s Anita], Gamecock [#583s], Zingara [#570s], Larikin [#571s], Mashnee [#569s], Quakeress II [#565s], Pontiac [#567s], Arabian [#564s], Prazilla [sic, i.e. #563s Praxilla], Young Miss [#560s], Nolos [sic, i.e. #561s Notos] and Evelyn [#562s]." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Notes." Bristol Phoenix, May 2, 1902, p. 3.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 174:]
Mashnee, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1902.
8.73 tons; 36 ft. x 10.8 ft. x 5.3 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) May 10, 1902. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff.
Surrendered [license] July 25, 1902 at Hyannis. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence])." (Source: Survey of Federal Archives, Work Projects Administration. Ships Documents of Rhode Island. Bristol. Ship Registers and Enrollments of the Port of Bristol - Warren Rhode Island, 1941, s.v. Mashnee.)

"Mr. James S. Whitney, son of H. M. Whitney, has purchased the thirty-footer Mashnee from Robert W. Emmons. This is the first break in the Buzzard's Bay thirty-foot class. The Mashnee, which was built and designed by Herreshoff, measures 40' 6" over all, 30' water line, 10' 10" beam. She has 10,000 Ibs. of outside lead ballast. Last summer the Mashnee won the championship in her class, after a season's close racing with twelve other boats." (Source: Anon. "Massachusetts New Thirty-Footer Recognized." Sail and Sweep, May 1904, p. 193.)

"[Sales]... MASHNEE, 30-foot Herreshoff sloop, for W. H. Hackett, New Haven, to E. B. Doane, New York. ..." (Source: Anon. [Title?] Power Boating, vol. 16, 1916, p. 102.)

"See also:
Forest and Stream 1901-09-21, p. 231 (BB30 New Class)
Boston Globe 1901-10-20, p. 32 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 354 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 355 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-02, p. 356 (BB30 plans)
Forest and Stream 1901-11-23, p. 417 (BB30 Trial)
Boston Globe 1901-12-14, p. 4 (BB30 Rules)
Forest and Stream 1901-12-28, p. 515 (BB30 Building progress)
New York Times 1902-02-03, p. 10 (BB30 progress)
Boston Globe 1902-03-30, p. 20 (BB30 photo)
Forest and Stream 1902-04-05, p. 272 (BB30 Almost Finished)
Boston Globe 1902-05-25, p. 37 (BB30 Names)
Boston Globe 1902-05-29, p. 2 (BB30 Transfer)
Boston Globe 1902-06-15, p. 5 (BB30 First Race photo)
Boston Globe 1902-06-18, p. 8 (BB30 Race photo)
Forest and Stream 1902-06-21, p. 493 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1902-06-23, p. 6 (Herreshoff News Notos)
Boston Globe 1902-06-29, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-05, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-05, p. 17 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1902-07-06, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-11, p. 5 (BB30 vs NP30)
New York Times 1902-07-11, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-12, p. 32 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
New York Times 1902-07-12, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-13, p. 5 (BB30 Race in Newport)
NY Tribune 1902-07-13, p. 5 (BB30 Race in Newport)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 55 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 56 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-07-19, p. 57 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-20, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-20, p. 35 (BB30 vs NP30 Wahtawah dismasted)
Boston Globe 1902-07-22, p. 4 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-07-27, p. 35 (BB30 EYC Special, prize)
Boston Globe 1902-07-27, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-03, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
NY Tribune 1902-08-08, p. 14 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Boston Globe 1902-08-10, p. 9 (BB30 Rensselaer Trophy)
Boston Globe 1902-08-12, p. 1 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Boston Globe 1902-08-12, p. 2 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
New York Times 1902-08-12, p. 2 (BB30 Notos)
Boston Globe 1902-08-17, p. 38 (BB30 NYYC Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-23, p. 151 (BB30 EYC Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-23, p. 155 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-24, p. 6 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-08-30, p. 175 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-08-31, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-02, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-10, p. 10 (BB30 Season Results)
Forest and Stream 1902-09-13, p. 215 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-14, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1902-09-20, p. 233 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1902-09-21, p. 6 (BB30 Race Season Results)
Boston Globe 1903-06-21, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-06-27, p. 512 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-06-28, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-04, p. 15 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-05, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-11, p. 36 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-18, p. 12 (BB30 vs BH31)
Boston Globe 1903-07-19, p. 10 (BB30 Race Dead Heat)
Forest and Stream 1903-07-25, p. 74 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-26, p. 12 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-07-26, p. 26 (BB30 Cruise)
Boston Globe 1903-07-29, p. 8 (BB30 NP30 Race)
NY Tribune 1903-07-29, p. 5 (BB30 NP30 Race)
New York Times 1903-07-30, p. 3 (BB30 vs NP30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-01, p. 95 (BB30)
Boston Globe 1903-08-02, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-08, p. 116 (BB30 vs NP30)
Boston Globe 1903-08-09, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-08-16, p. 10 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-08-22, p. 153 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-08-30, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-06, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-08, p. 13 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1903-09-13, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1903-09-26, p. 249 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1904-01-12, p. 8 (BB30 Season Results)
Forest and Stream 1904-05-21, p. 424 (BB30 Zingara sold)
Boston Globe 1904-06-18, p. 2 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-06-26, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-07-02, p. 13 (BB30 Young Miss Walkover)
Boston Globe 1904-07-03, p. 12 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-07-10, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-07-16, p. 55 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-07-17, p. 5 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-07-30, p. 96 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-04, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-06, p. 121 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-07, p. 11 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-08-14, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-20, p. 163 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-08-27, p. 184 (BB30 Race incl Anita)
Boston Globe 1904-08-28, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-04, p. 3 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-06, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1904-09-11, p. 9 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-09-17, p. 244 (BB30 Race)
Forest and Stream 1904-09-24, p. 268 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-06-11, p. 46 (BB30 Eleven Boats)
Boston Globe 1905-06-18, p. 13 (BB30 No Race)
Boston Globe 1905-07-02, p. 11 (BB30 Walkover)
Boston Globe 1905-07-09, p. 4 (BB30 No Race)
Forest and Stream 1905-07-15, p. 55 (BB30 Young Miss Walkover)
Boston Globe 1905-07-23, p. 18 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-07-30, p. 7 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-08-06, p. 11 (BB30 Race Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1905-08-19, p. 161 (BB30 Race)
Boston Globe 1905-08-20, p. 21 (BB30 Cruise)
Forest and Stream 1906-10-13, p. 584 (BB30 Young Miss)
Boston Globe 1907-07-05, p. 7 (BB30 apparently Young Miss)
Boston Globe 1907-07-21, p. 44 (BB30 Arria sold)
Boston Globe 1907-07-26, p. 4 (BB30 possibly Duchess)
Boston Globe 1907-08-04, p. 11 (BB30 possibly Duchess)
Forest and Stream 1907-09-14, p. 426 (BB30 Race 2 boats)
Forest and Stream 1908-05-30, p. 864 (BB30 possibly Gamecock Duchess)
Boston Globe 1908-06-21, p. 39 (BB30 Quakeress II sold)
Forest and Stream 1908-06-27, p. 1024 (BB30 Quakeress sold)
Boston Globe 1909-04-11, p. 47 (BB30 Quakeress II sold)
Forest and Stream 1909-06-26, p. 1026 (BB30 Larikin Zingara sold)
Boston Globe 1910-06-12, p. 39 (BB30 apparently Duchess)
Boston Globe 1910-07-03, p. 48 (BB30 Footpad)
Boston Globe 1910-07-24, p. 40 (BB30 Footpad)
Forest and Stream 1910-07-30, p. 181 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1910-07-30, p. 182 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1910-07-31, p. 14 (BB30 possibly Duchess)
Forest and Stream 1910-08-06, p. 223 (BB30 Race 4 boats)
Forest and Stream 1910-11-12, p. 784 (BB30 Notos sold)
Boston Globe 1911-06-04, p. 8 (BB30 Races planned)
Forest and Stream 1912-04-13, p. 473 (BB30 Arabian sold)
New York Times 1912-07-21, p. S3 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)
Forest and Stream 1912-08-03, p. 145 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1912-08-03, p. 146 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1913-05-18, p. 56 (BB30 Arabian Footpad)
Boston Globe 1913-07-22, p. 5 (BB30 Gamecock Duchess)
New York Times 1913-07-22, p. 8 (BB30 Race 4 boats)
Forest and Stream 1913-07-26, p. 114 (BB30 Evelyn Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1913-07-26, p. 115 (BB30 Evelyn Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1913-08-02, p. 147 (BB30 4 boats)
Boston Globe 1913-08-03, p. 35 (BB30 Pontiac sold)
Forest and Stream 1913-08-09, p. 178 (BB30 Pontiac sold)
Hartford Courant 1914-03-22, p. X3 (BB30 Scud)
New York Times 1914-05-31, p. S4 (BB30 walkover)
New York Times 1914-07-12, p. S3 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
New York Times 1914-07-16, p. 6 (BB30 Gamecock)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-18, p. 86 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
New York Times 1914-07-18, p. 5 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 118 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 119 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 120 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 121 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 122 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Forest and Stream 1914-07-25, p. 123 (BB30 Race 3 boats)
Boston Globe 1915-04-18, p. 37 (BB30 Pontiac sold)
New York Times 1915-06-01, p. 10 (BB30 Zingara alone)
New York Times 1915-07-18, p. S4 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)
New York Times 1915-07-20, p. 8 (BB30 Race)
New York Times 1915-07-23, p. 7 (BB30 Gamecock)
New York Times 1915-07-24, p. 6 (BB30 Gamecock)
New York Times 1915-07-25, p. S4 (BB30 Gamecock Mashnee)
Boston Globe 1916-03-19, p. 54 (BB30 Quakeress II sold)
New York Times 1916-05-31, p. 15 (BB30 Zingara alone)
Boston Globe 1918-06-16, p. 12 (BB30 Quakeress II drown)
New York Times 1922-06-04, p. 29 (BB30 Zingara Young Miss)
New York Times 1925-07-13, p. 22 (BB30 Young Miss Mashnee possibly Duchess)
New York Times 1925-08-01, p. S5 (BB30 Young Miss)
New York Times 1926-08-05, p. 17 (BB30 possible Race)
New York Times 1936-07-09, p. 24 (BB30 possibly Larikin)" (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 21, 2011.)

"... Henry Lee Norris, Director of Buildings & Grounds [at Columbia University].
Norris has been going to sea since he was 14 and now at the age of 56 he spends his summers cruising on the Sound, a yacht cap perched on his head as he treads the decks of his 46-foot Herreshoff sloop, Mashnee, which he moors at the Larchmont Y. C.
For many years Philip M. Hayden, 13AM, Assistant Secretary of Columbia was co-skipper and co-owner of the Mashnee. Once, in 1924, they crashed newspaper pages when they rode out a hurricane off Gardiners Island and finally steered into Greenport, limp and bedraggled, a day late. Norris as a boy began sailing duck boats on Barnegat Bay. He finished his senior year at Stevens Tech in January of 1902 --- five months ahead of Commencement Day --- and spent the spring making two round trips across the Atlantic as a... [Henry Lee Norris was Director of Buildings & Grounds at Columbia University.]" (Source: Anon. [Title?] Columbia Alumni News, vol. 27, November 22, 1935, [p. 22?].)

"... The campus was agog today over the newspaper accounts of the 'shipwreck' yesterday in Long Island Sound off Eaton Neck of Henry Lee Norris' sloop 'Mashnee'. But Norris arrived back at his office late in the afternoon, spending most of the night on his yacht waiting for the tide to rise. There ..." (Source: Anon. [Title?] Columbia Alumni News, vol. 27, 1935, [p. 36?].)

"The call of the open sea, the water rushing beyond the transom, the sight of 1,200 square feet of working sails filled by a stiff breeze have inspired a labor of love. For three years Dick Dalessio, his father and friends have been rebuilding the 45-ft Mashnee sailing boat, one of 12 Buzzards Bay 30s built in 1902 by Nathaniel Herreshoff in Bristol.
Dick, a sailing enthusiast, and his Dad, Emelio, bought the boat in 1965, an investment of $3,000. Getting her ship-shape to sail that summer amounted to a thorough cleaning and a fresh coat of paint. However the years had taken a toll and Dick found that the structural ribs needed replacing. The boat worked when under sail and old timbers rotted with age, loosened. When the Mashnee was hauled out that fall, a complete rebuilding project began.
Dick noted that he was living and working in Boston at the time. The project became a weekend affair. Dick recalled that the rebuilding began with a great deal of research.
Mr Dalessio is the proprietor of a service station and auto repair shop on Maple Ave, Barrington, located next door to their residence. Dick is a Barrington High School graduate, class of 1956. During his years as a student he was the accompanist for the Barrington Boys' Choir for nine years. He graduated from Brown Univ in 1963 and from Harvard Business School with a master's degree in 1969. He married Paula Thomsen, in 1968. They now reside in Marblehead, Mass and Dick commutes to Boston where he is associated with IBM.
The arduous weekend task has taken well over three years. Guided by a good friend and experienced boatsman, Godfrey 'Unk' Allen, owner of the Narragansett Terrace Boat Yard, Riverside, work began.
The cabin and top deck were stripped off, frames were removed one screw at a time. Shaping the new ribs made of green oak was a tedious task Dick explained 'Notches were cut in the timbers. We then coated them with kerosene which helped retain the heat when steamed in a specially built steam box heated by an old boiler. Each rib, steamed for three hours, was carefully lifted out with the aid of rubber gloves. The rib was bent over a metal wheel to give it direction,' Dick said, 'and then run into the boat, forced against the hull with the use of jacks and then fastenings were put on from the outside, before it was left to cool; 85 of 92 ribs were replaced with one out of every third attempt going astray as ribs cracked under the strain,' he added.
3 Years of Work
During these three years, summer and winter, work continued. All butt blocks, garboard strakes, bilge stringers and keel boards were replaced.
The boat was launched last May, and remained dockside for cabin and deck completion. The deck was laid over a plywood base and completely fiberglassed.
Built in the Dalessio garage, a deck house of mahogany was transported to the boat yard and lifted onto the superstructure with a cranelike device and bolted down. 'This took quite a bit of engineering,' Dick recalled. He related that two side boards of the cabin are of African mahogany 2 inches thick by 28 feet long and 3 feet wide. They were obtained from the Ichabod T. Williams & Sons Co of NY City, dealers in mahogany, after an intensive search. Transportation, by the senior Dalessio in a station wagon from the N J lumber yard, proved quite a feat and the trip back to R I was not without difficulty.
Original Gaff Rig
Dick said that the boat had an original gaff rig on it and he believes it was the first boat to use a Genoa sail, a large jib that overlaps the mast. The rigging has since been changed to the more modern Marconi. The new sails are from Thurston Co of Warren.
Dick credits several of his friends for their help. His first mate, David Howe, Tom Pezzullo and Domenic DiOrio, all of Barrington; and two teenagers from the Terrace who became interested. One, young Steve McInnis handcut a half-model of the Mashnee for Dick at Christmas.
This spring when the Mashnee, now covered over and stored next to the Dalessio home, is launched it should be finished. Final, inside cabin work and details are in process. Furnishings are being procured and the steering wheel, a work of art, is being pieced together and fondly sanded from African mahogany. The boat will again take to the seas as she once did for her original owner, R. W. Emmons of Beverly, Mass. when She sailed from the Beverly Yacht Club along with her 11 other sister yachts back in 1902." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoff Sloop Being Refurbished." Bristol Phoenix, March 5-6, 1970, p. 39.)

"It is inevitable that there are interesting things happening around us that we may never know about. This is about one of those things. Quietly underway in Charlotte is a very special restoration project.
When you go west on Ferry Road, on your left a short way after the railroad tracks is the old Garden Way complex, home to several businesses and The Charlotte News. You have probably noticed that adjacent to the west side of the main building there are always boats in cradles scattered around the grounds, and you probably have wondered what goes on there.
Inside that part of the building are the expansive work areas of Darling’s Boatworks, owned by George and Pam Darling. They have been in business since 1978, first at Point Bay Marina in Charlotte, briefly at Shelburne Shipyard, and since 1990 at their present Ferry Road facility.
While you seldom see much activity on the outside of their place, there is usually fascinating work going on inside. The Darlings and their staff are known and esteemed in the boating community for their very high-quality restoration, repairing and refinishing of boats. Although much of their work is on fiberglass boats, they are renowned for their work on old wooden craft, especially classic old sailboats. For the last three years they have been carefully accomplishing the ultimate restoration of one such classic.
The boat’s name is Mashnee. She is a 107-year-old Herreshoff-built Buzzards Bay 30, one of only 14 that were built in 1902. Her first owner was Robert Emmons, a long-time Herreshoff client who directly inspired the 12 1/2 footer and the Buzzard Bay 15. He later was manager of Resolute, designed and built by Herreshoff, which won over the British challenger Shamrock in the 1920 defense of the America’s Cup. Mashnee is named after the island of the same name at the head of Buzzards Bay. This is some of her story. [Read more about the Buzzards Bay 30 on page 14 of this issue).
The magazine WoodenBoat has a standard feature called 'Save a Classic' written by Maynard Bray. In the July-August 2004 issue Manshee was the subject of Bray’s article. He noted that she had been out of the water and abandoned for over ten years at the Hague Marina in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He included a black and white photo of the forlorn-looking boat sitting in the tall weeds off the edge of the marina, propped up by several chunks of a cut-up telephone pole leaned against the hull. Hanging off the deck here and there were several frayed lines that had at one time secured a long-gone protective cover. In the photo Mashnee looked like an example for the definition of forlorn, '...pitifully sad and abandoned ...'
Jan (pronounced Yan) Rozendaal of South Burlington read that article. Jan, the founder of Nordic Ford/Toyota and the savior of what he renamed Nordic Farm in Charlotte, has been a sailor from his youth and has sailed and raced on Lake Champlain ever since coming to Vermont. The article caught Jan’s eye because over the years he has owned several old wooden boats, starting with Bill Freeman’s British-made 35-foot sloop Corlaer, now owned by the Darlings. He presently has a classic Concordia yawl named Moonfleet and a vintage power runabout. Jan had all those beauties maintained and cared for by Darling’s Boatworks.
So, upon reading the Mashnee article, Jan felt compelled by his love of vintage wooden boats to do two things right off. First, he called George Darling. Then, soon after, he and George flew to Myrtle Beach to check out this dowdy derelict.
In his article Bray called the boat cosmetically rough, but noted that in the 1970s the boat had been refurbished and kept in superb condition by a former owner who had lived aboard the boat for a decade while employed by Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Bray knew that owner, had sailed on the boat and knew how much work the owner had done on it, so he wrote that maybe with a moderate amount of work it could once again be made sound, even though the decade of abandonment had taken its toll. Once aboard Mashnee, Jan and George discovered that she probably was in somewhat worse shape than the article had described. However, disappointment was not to be a part of this meeting of boat and boater. Jan, said George, fell in love with the boat in all its dowdiness and bought it on the spot.
Soon after Jan made arrangements to have the boat trucked to Point Bay Marina, where the boat was stored for the winter. In the spring of 2005 Mashnee was moved into Darling’s workshop. At this point it had been only six months since Jan read the article. The ensuing phase would take most of the next three years.
Word spread among the wooden boat community about Jan’s purchase of Mashnee and his plans to restore it, and shortly an American living in Finland became interested in finding a Buzzards Bay 30 to restore. He found two, and he and a friend each bought one. They then searched to find a boat yard in Maine that could or would undertake to restore all of them. They chose French & Webb in Belfast. Shortly thereafter, the American in Finland located another BB 30, and with the help of Maynard Bray, the writer whose article started the whole effort, a buyer for the third was found. During all that searching a fourth boat was found but not bought at that time. As far as is presently known, these five boats are the only survivors out of the original 14.
Restoration of those three boats has been underway during the same time period as the restoration of Mashnee. The fourth boat was purchased by F&W to be used for reference and parts, but it may be restored in the future. It was not until Mashnee was in the Darling’s workshop and dismantling began that a thorough evaluation of its condition could be determined. Where the hope had been that only some of the structure and deck planking might have to be replaced, George and his expert crew found that none of the backbone (the centerline structures - stem, keel and horn timber) could be trusted, and the same with the deck beams. On the outside the previous owner had replaced the original pine deck with plywood and had reconfigured the original house, the above-deck cabin structure. To bring the boat back to its original configuration both would have to be replaced. Close inspection of the hull planking revealed that all would have to be replaced. The structural keel support was rotted, and the lead ballast keel was unusable and would have to be melted down and recast. The mast was unfit and had been left behind. Many of the fittings had been removed (or stolen) while the boat sat abandoned. The engine had not been run in at least ten years and was not worth keeping. In short, to restore the boat almost everything would have to be replaced.
Interestingly, the items that were still good and usable after over 100 years were the knees. On wooden boats there has to be a bracket-type support at certain points where a hull rib joins to a horizontal deck beam. These wooden brackets are called knees, and were made from the part of a tree trunk where a root angles off from the trunk, thus providing a naturally angled one-piece bracket, with the grain of the root-trunk angle providing full strength support in both directions of the angle. Finding that the original knees were still in great condition was a thrilling discovery for Darling’s detectives, for it meant that they would not have to face the daunting task of searching for a source of appropriate old-growth trees from which to make new ones.
In the restoration of a vintage boat, the idea is to have the boat emerge as much like the original as possible and contain as much of the original boat as possible. This latter point led to a bit of logic-stress for this writer. How, I asked George, could a boat with all new ribs, deck beams, decking, house, interior, keel, rudder, mast, rigging, sails and engine be called a restoration? Seemed to me that what would emerge would be a new boat with a few used parts. Delightfully, logic is wasteful and not needed in such a noble endeavor. The process and the labor of restoration ensure that honor will be secure and that this boat will still be Mashnee as before and evermore.
If the boat were to be totally dismantled and reconstructed from scratch using all new materials, that indeed would result in a replica, not a restoration. The difference is subtle, but important. The process is what is critical. What follows is a synopsis of that process.
The restoration of Mashnee began with the acquisition over the winter of a copy of the plans for the original boat. The Herreshoff Company is long out of business, and its factory is now a museum of the fascinating and incredible Herreshoff output. Fortunately, many of their boat plans, including those for the Buzzards Bay 30, are available from the Hart Nautical Collection at MIT.
Also, during that winter George made a trip to Louisiana to line up the proper old-growth yellow pine lumber for the planking that would duplicate the wood used by Herreshoff in the original construction. Yellow pine is a cash crop in the south, so it is induced to grow fast. Fast growth creates widely separated growth rings. But old-growth trees had to struggle to survive, so their rings are close together, yielding much stronger and more durable wood than does wide-ring wood.
Once the boat was in the workshop, dismantling began with removal of the house and the deck, allowing full access to the interior of the boat and a full examination of the existing hull structure and its sorry state. Some of the hull planking was removed – enough was left temporarily to hold the ribs in place. The lead ballast keel was removed and sent to Canada to be melted down and recast. The structural keel was removed and scrapped. The engine was removed and discarded. Although the boat was built without an engine, in 1926 a gasoline engine had been installed. Eventually, it was replaced by the present one, a diesel Mercedes.
Working from the plans, several templates (called molds) of the hull shape were precisely fabricated on the workshop floor from ordinary lumber. The molds were then lowered into the hull and clamped into place. Over time every other rib was removed and replaced with a new steam-bent one. Then the remaining old ribs were also replaced with new ones. With the new ribs held in place by the remaining old planking and the templates, installation of new planking began, using the same type of wood as was used originally. The bottom planking consists of 1 1/8-inch thick boards to better support the weight of the keel and engine, as well as the pressure of the water. From about the waterline up, double planking was affixed, the two planks totaling 1 1/8 inches, with each outer board half-lapping the inner boards. This procedure provides that each horizontal and vertical joint of both outer and inner boards has a full board overlapping it, thus making the hull more watertight and the boat more structurally rigid. The boards were screwed to the ribs and also bonded to each other with a waterproof adhesive compound.
During the project George was able to locate the boat’s 1970s owner mentioned earlier. He had been saddened by the deterioration of the boat since he had sold it and was delighted that Mashnee had been rescued from relegation to the weeds. During their chat about the boat’s past and present condition, George noted that the original bronze anchor windlass was missing, and asked him if by chance he had it or knew of its whereabouts. The gentleman said it was on his mantle. He had removed it from the boat when it ceased to function, but had kept it as a memento. Because he was so pleased about Mashnee’s resurrection, he agreed that the windlass belonged back on the boat. George bought it and was able to get it repaired locally; it will soon be mounted back in its original place on the foredeck.
The simultaneous restorations at Darling’s Boatworks and French & Webb have benefited both efforts, allowing them to optimize and economize various aspects of their respective endeavors. For example, F&W had access to a Canadian company that could melt and recast the keel ballasts, all four of which could then be made using the same mold. And F&W had to make three sets of deckhouses and rudders, so making one more of each for Mashnee was an easily shared solution.
At this point Mashnee is gradually coming together into full form. The recast ballast keel is in place, the hull has been painted its original white, the interior woodwork is being painted and varnished, the rudder has arrived, bronze deck fittings have been salvaged or exact copies recast, a new Volvo engine is in place, and the new mast has been made. The original boats had gaff-rigged masts, and so do the three others being restored. However, at some time Mashnee’s rig was converted to a Marconi setup, a taller mast without the gaff. Jan decided to retain that more modern rig, as it is simpler and easier to handle and control. Bill Fastiggi, owner of Vermont Sailing Partners, a sail loft in Winooski, is making the sails.
While all of this is being done, the hull is shrouded in a plastic skirt hanging to the floor. Inside the skirt on the floor under the hull are two humidifiers that run 24/7 to keep the wooden hull from drying out and shrinking, especially the part that will be submerged when the boat is launched. Once in the water, the wooden hull will absorb water and swell some, making all the joints and seams watertight.
Learning about and seeing this impressive process, witnessing the dedicated and loving efforts of George and Pam and their superb craftsmen and seeing Mashnee emerge in all her majesty converted me fully, and I will be forever a willing advocate that this is indeed the ultimate in restorations, and that Mashnee is proudly reborn and not merely replicated.
Launching of Mashnee is planned for sometime this spring at Point Bay Marina. After spending some time sailing and tuning the boat on Lake Champlain, Jan will have her trucked to Maine in July, probably to Brooklin, the home of the magazine whose article began this rebirth saga. There Mashnee will join the three other restored Buzzards Bay 30s to participate in various wooden boat and classic yacht regattas along the East Coast during the late summer, including a stopover at the Beverly Yacht Club in Buzzards Bay, her original sailing grounds." (Source: Hyerstay, Dale. "Mashnee Lives." The Charlotte News, January 9, 2008. http://www.thecharlottenews.org/pages/mashneelives.html, retrieved September 6, 2008.)

"... Mashnee is a 1902 Herreshoff design which was completely rebuilt to museum quality standards from 2008-2010. Her gift to MIT by May Jane and Jan Rozendaal of South Burlington, Vermont came in December of 2017. Nearly every day last summer the boat skippered and crewed by MIT students who sailed for enjoyment and who also competed in regattas in Massachusetts and Maine. Her maintenance is entirely suppoted by the Ralph Evans Fund for Bluewater Sailing at MIT." (Source: Anon. Invitation to Dockside Event at MIT Sailing Pavilion on May 10, 2019 to honor and thank the Rozendaal family for its gift of Mashnee to MIT. https://sailing.mit.edu/gallery/picture.php?/3355/category/120, retrieved, October 29, 2020.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled midship section with pinpricks titled 'Buzzards Bay 30. 30ft Class. # 560 to 567 [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]'. With list of scantlings. Marked in right margin '1902'. (Might this be the original sketch for the Buzzards Bay 30 class? This would date it 1901 and not to 1902 as suggested by the note in the margin --- which may well have been added in later years)." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04110. Penciled Sketch. Folder [no #]. 1901 ???.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02111 (029-015).. Blueprint general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile of two designs marked in pencil 'No 1' (with round-cornered deckhouse with portholes tiller steering) and 'No 2' (with rectangular trolley car-style deckhouse with rectangular windows and horizontal wheel steering) titled 'Proposed Designs for 30ft Class [Buzzards Bay 30 Class: #560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s, #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s]. Scale 3/8in = 1ft. June 7th, 1901'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0054. WRDT08, Folder 6, formerly MRDE10. 1901-06-07.)
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"[Item Description:] Blueprint general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile titled '30ft Cruising Class for Buzzard's Bay [Buzzards Bay 30 Class: #560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s, #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s]. Scale 3/8in. June 17, 1901'. With penciled hull notes of the first boats ordered '560 - 60 - 62 - 63 - 64 - 65 - 66 - 67'." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0029. Blueprint. WRDT08, Folder 3, formerly MRDE08. 1901-06-17.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curve titled 'Nos. 560 - 567 [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. Final. July 14, 1901'. With calculations for displacement of 'body' and 'keel part' arriving at a total of 304.1cuft = 19460lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04250. Folder [no #]. 1901-07-14.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Buzzards Bay 30 footers. Nos. 560-567 inclusive, also [blank] [#560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s (and eventually also #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s, #576s, #583s)]. Aug[ust] 3, 1901. Scale 1 1/2in'. With calculations and note 'Required 9820lbs lead = 13.8cuft --- c.g. [at] 55.4[%] of w.l. c.b. slot = ...' and concluding with note '... = 10110lbs for[?] 23in deep. 9820/10110 of 23 = 22 1/2 nearly at the preferred[?] depth of lead'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_09140. Folder [no #]. 1901-08-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled list of Buzzards Bay 30 building numbers, names, delivery dates, owner names and, as a separate list, dates to begin rigging:]
8[:] 560 [#560s]. Young Miss. May 28. Whittemore.
9[:] 561 [#561s]. Notos. May 28.
6[:] 562 [#562s]. Evelyn. May 21.
3[:] 563 [#563s]. Praxilla. May 15.
10[:] 564 [#564s]. Arabian. May 28. Winsor.
2[:] 565 [#565s]. Quakeress II. May 4. Harrison.
12[:] 566 [#566s]. Arria. May 30. Cotton.
4[:] 567 [#567s]. Pontiac. May 15.
7[:] 569 [#569s]. Mashnee. May 23. Emmons.
5[:] 570 [#570s]. Zingara. May 15.
14[:] 571 [#571s]. Larikin. May ?. Rob. Bacon.
1[:] 572 [#572s]. Wahtawah. May 1. Rogers.
13[:] 576 [#576s]. Anita. June 7. Crane.
11[:] 583 [#583s]. Gamecock. May 28. L. Bacon.
Begin to Rig:
1[:] 572 Apr 25 [Delivery May] 1.
2[:] 565 Apr 29 [Delivery May] 4.
3[:] 563 May 2 [Delivery] 15.
4[:] 567 May 6 [Delivery] 15.
5[:] 570 May 9 [Delivery] 15.
6[:] 562 May 13 [Delivery] 21.
7[:] 569 May 16 [Delivery] 23.
8[:] 560 May 20 [Delivery] 28.
9[:] 561 May 23 [Delivery] 28.
10[:] 564 May 27 [Delivery] 28.
11[:] 583 May 30 [Delivery] 28 [sic].
12[:] 566 June 3 [Delivery May] 30 [sic].
13[:] 576 June 6 [Delivery] 7.
14[:] 571 [Blank.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Penciled List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02930. Folder [no #]. No date (1902-05 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH titled 'Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Orders from N.G. Herreshoff'. Relevant contents:
§19: Work Order [For] #213p, #215p, #216p, #560s, #561s, #562s, #563s, #564s, #565s, #566s, #567s -- #569s, #570s, #571s, #572s. [When wanted] As made. Chain cables (1901-09-30)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Order Book. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_03460. Folder [no #]. 1900-02 to 1909-10.)
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① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑧ ⑨ ⑩ ⑪ ⑫ ⑬ ⑭ ⑮ ⑯ ⑰ ⑱ ⑲ ⑳ ㉑ ㉒ ㉓ ㉔ ㉕ ㉖ ㉗ ㉘ ㉙ ㉚ ㉛ ㉜ ㉝ ㉞ ㉟ ㊱ ㊲ ㊳ ㊴ ㊵ ㊶ ㊷ ㊸ ㊹ ㊺ ㊻ ㊼ ㊽ ㊾ ㊿
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #569s Mashnee even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Ryan, Arliss and Eric Sponberg. "The Buzzards Bay 30s." Herreshoff Marine Museum Chronicle, Spring 1983, p. 3; Fall 1983, p. 3; Spring 1984, p. 3. (267 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum. Class history. Brief vessel biographies.
• Bray, Maynard. "The Buzzards Bay Thirties. Four 1902 Sloops Simultaneously Restored." Wooden Boat #203, July/August 2008, p. 64-68. (3,624 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text). Class history. Brief vessel biographies. Linesplan.
• Bray, Maynard and Benjamin Mendlowitz (photographer). "The Buzzards Bay Thirties." Wooden Boat #204, September/October 2008, p. 92-95. (1,033 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text) and Benjamin Mendlowitz (photos).
• Norris, Henry Lee. "Metamorphosis of 'Mashnee'. How an 'Old Lady' Kept Up with the Style in Spite of Her 42 Years." Yachting, February 1944, p. 29-30, 66. (1,394 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: No known copyright restrictions. Short vessel history. Description of rig changes from gaff cutter to single-headsail gaff sloop to marconi sloop.
• Norris, Henry Lee. "The Solo Flight of 'Mashnee'. The Story of a 46-Foot Sloop's 'French Leave.' Which Has a Happy Ending." Yachting, December 1944, p. 48, 92. (854 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: No known copyright restrictions. Description of Mashnee's miraculous solo voyage during the hurricane of 1938, when she sailed alone, and taking her 400lbs mushroom anchor with her, from Larchmont to the other side of Long Island Sound where she fetched up safely.
• Bray, Maynard. "Save A Classic. Mashnee. A Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 30." Wooden Boat #179, July/August 2004, p. 152. (341 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text).

• Mashnee (HMCo-made index card)
• Mashnee (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: Mashnee
Type: Cutter
Length: 30'
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.

• Mashnee
• 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: Mashnee
Type: 30' cutter
Owner: R. W. Emmons
Year: 1902
Row No.: 417

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: Sept.
Day: 04
Year: 1901
E/P/S: S
No.: 0569
Name: Mashnee
LW: 30'
B: 10' 10"
D: 5' 3"
Rig: cutter
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: $4525.00
Notes Constr. Record: Pole mast. Double leading.
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.

"Sail number A-7." (Source: Bray, Maynard. Woodenboat #203, July/August 2008, p. 66.)

"Donated to the MIT Nautical Association in 2018 by the Rozendaal family." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 17, 2019.)

"Launched 1902-02-17." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. June 5, 2011.)

"Built in 166 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $27/day, 120 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 17, 2024.)

"Actual sail area 1310." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. [Penciled note by NGH on letter from Frank Bowne Jones to NGH.] Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 42 (new), 32 (old). September 28, 1903.)

"Displacement 20000 lbs from pencilled note by NGH on letter from Frank Bowne Jones to NGH in Herreshoff Marine Museum Correspondence, Folder 42 (new), 32 (old), dated September 28, 1903. Note that NGH noted in his design book a displacement of 19460 lbs." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 17, 2017.)

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