HMCo #599s Indian

"[1903-01-30] Fri 30: ... H[eav]y fog & rain in forenoon. Clearing in afternoon [and] ch[anging] to fresh NW. ... Set up #599 [Indian] in PM. ...
[1903-02-07] Sat 7: Very fine. Fresh NNW [wind]. Turned over #599 [Indian]. ...
[1903-02-19] Thu 19: Strong WNW. Cold & clear. Took #599 [Indian] to cove lot by tackle in[?] 3 hours[?].
[1903-02-26] Thu 26: Very fine [with] mod[erate] W [wind &] clear. Took #599 [Indian] to cove. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1903. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Nos. 592 to 604 inclusive [#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s].
Bar Harbor Class.
Frame spaces 12 1/2".
Planking 1 1/8".
Timbers moulded 1 1/2" at head increasing 1/8 per foot.
Sided 1 7/8".
Keel steamed or bent 2 7/8" think[?]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.139.] No date [ca. October 1902]. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"A contract for sixteen [sic, i.e. thirteen] sloop yachts of the thirty foot class was received this week by the Herreshoffs. The boats are to be of one design and are to be drawn by lot next spring. It is to be known as the Bar Harbor class and the yachts will be constructed in the building now in process of construction on the east side of Hope street, opposite the construction shops." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, October 3, 1902, p. 2.)

"BAR HARBOR, Sept 20 [1902]. --- ... Prospects for the yachting fraternity next season are excellent. There is to be a single-design class built which will be uniform in every particular, the various members to draw for their boats. Those who will build are V. Everett Macy, A. J. Cassatt, W. G. Ladd, H. L. Eno, Edgar Scott, Edward Morrell, R. Horace Gallatin, H. M. Sears, W. C. Allison, J. M. Sears, Antonio Y. Stewart, and T. G. Condon." (Source: Anon. "Bar Harbor Happenings." New York Times, September 21, 1902.)

"Work has begun on the first of the new class of 30-footers known as the Bar Harbor class. These boats are to be built in the new shop constructed this fall directly opposite the old construction shop. There are to be fourteen [sic, i.e. 13] of these boats built from the same mould, and will be drawn by lot in the spring." (Source: Anon. "Yachting." New York Tribune, November 16, 1902, p. 10.)

"Indian, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, RI, by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.
10.46 gross tons, 8.71 net tons; 36.4 ft. x 10.4 ft. x 5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head, overhanging stern.
Surveyed and measured, May 6, 1903." (Source: U.S. Customs Department, Bristol, R.I. Custom House Record Book, 1870s to 1904 (Collection of the Herreshoff Marine Museum), s.v. Indian.)

"[License issued to vessel under 20 tons. Pos. 111:]
Indian, sloop, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1903.
8.71 tons; 36.4 ft. x 10.4 ft. x 5 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
No specifications shown.
Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) May 16, 1903. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff.
Surrendered [license] Sept. 22, 1903 at Mount Desert Ferry. ([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. Indian.)

"Bristol Yacht News. There are only three of the Bar Harbor thirty-footers yet remaining to be launched at the Herreshoff shops at Bristol. The Kuwana [#592s], Cricket [#602s], Arabian [sic, this is a Buzzards Bay 30, #564s ], and Indian [#599s] are rigged, have been tried under sail, and are ready to proceed to the eastward." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Yacht News." New York Times, June 9, 1903, p. 7.)

"... The Bar Harbor 31-footer Indian has been sold by Mr Sortwell to Arthur Adams and Reginald Boardman. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, May 24, 1908, p. 48.)

"... It looks as if the death of A. J. Cassatt [who owned #603s Scud] would cause the ending of the Mount Desert Yacht Racing Association, of which he was one of the most enthusiastic members. The club consisted of a fleet of thirty-one-footers, knockabout rig, all exactly alike, for which the owners drew lots for choice, and which were as exact duplicates as the hand of the builder could make. The races were a test of pure sailing, for no professional skippers were allowed, each member sailing his own boat. The club was a flourishing one for a number of years, but last year the interest dwindled, and no races of a formal nature were held. Mr. Cassatt's yacht has been sold to Camden parties, while another, the Indian [#599s], owned by Edgar Scott of Philadelphia, another prime mover of the club, has been sold this week, also to Camden Summer residents. Mr. Scott bought the Indian from William C. Allison of Philadelphia, who was still another member of the club, but who has not been here for several seasons and didn't like her as well as his own Bat [#596s]. ..." (Source: Anon. "Bar Harbor's Smart Clubs." New York Times, June 30, 1907, p. ?.)

"The Hollis-Burgess Yacht Agency, of Boston, has sold the Bar Harbor Herreshoff one design class thirty-one foot sloop yacht Indian, owned by Mr. Reginald Boardman and Mr. Arthur Adams, of Boston, to Mr. Walter K. Shaw, of Concord, Mass., who will use her at Seal Harbor, Me." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Notes." New York Herald, September 16, 1910, p. 12.)

"It may interest Yachting's readers to know that I am changing over my Bar Harbor 31-footer Indian to a Marconi rig. It would be a good thing if all the Bar Harbor 31-footers could be changed over to a Marconi rig as it would furnish some fine racing.
The boat is now at Lawley's being redecked and having the house rebuilt, strengthened and set into the pine planking to enable it to be properly caulked at the deck.
Pigeon has built a beautiful curved Marconi mast of Douglas fir, 70ft. high, with the chord of the curve 12in. The mast is 8 1/2in. at the deck, 9 1/8in. at the point of greatest strain and 4in. at the top. It weighed without the rigging 558 lbs., rigging complete 157 lbs., making a total weight of 715 lbs. This compares with a weight of about 900 lbs. for the original solid spruce mast with rigging complete, and 400 lbs. for her present hollow Douglas fir mast which has been displaced, plus the weight of the rigging which is probably about 150 lbs.
The mast will be set a foot further forward and the old mast step replaced by one a foot longer. The old hollow Douglas fir boom 38ft. long has been cut down to 35ft., the foot of the sail being 34ft. 6in., with a hoist of 62ft.
Ratsey is making the mainsail, jib and storm jib of his best grade imported Egyptian duck. Also a new balloon jib and a new spinnaker, both higher and narrower than the former ones. The mainsail has two 4ft. reefs.
A single jib will be used, 19ft. on the foot with a 17ft. jibboom of hollow Douglas fir, to be hooked on to a permanent jib stay meeting the mast 41ft. 8in. above the deck. We are using the old gaff for a new spinnaker pole 22ft. 2in. long to take the place of the old spinnaker pole which was about 28ft long.
The main halyard will be set up with one of Herreshoff's smallest bronze winches fastened on the side of the mast below deck. Herreshoff's next larger sized winch has been put on the after deck for use in setting up the main sheet, and will be extremely useful. I understand that the same arrangement is used on the Herreshoff New York 30's.
The total sail area of the rig, jib and mainsail will be a shade under 1,400 sq. ft. I understand the sail area of the Zara, another Marconi 31-footer, a shade over 1,400 sq. ft. (1,425 originally, to be exact), with a reduction of a triangle cut off from the leach of the sail measuring 12in. at the outside edge, making the sail area now probably about 1,400 sq. ft.
The Indian cost second hand $2,250.00 about ten years ago. With the exception of having the plugs reset on the deck and the hollow mast and spars made, I have never been put to any extra expense. The present changes will cost about $3,500.00 and the boat will be as good as new thereafter.
I am sending you these particulars so that you may answer any questions that may be put to you by present owners of Bar Harbor boats, who may think of fitting them over. I believe that all of these Bar Harbor boats are still in condition to be put in first class order by redecking and having the house strengthened as I have had mine done, and if you could persuade enough of the present owners to refit them with Marconi rigs or could get some sailing enthusiasts to buy and refit some of them, it would make a wonderful racing and cruising class. They are far superior to P boats in their accommodations below deck." (Source: Shaw, W. K. "Bringing the Bar Harbor 31-Footers Up-to-Date." Yachting, December 1922, p. 296-297.)

"Members of the Bar Harbor 31-foot class are sure to have a very interesting season in 1927 at the North Shore with their big jib-headed mainsail rigged sloops, owing to the experiment to be tried out of adding lead to the keels of the sloops. Last Tuesday at a meeting of the Bar Harbor 31-foot association an amendment to the class restrictions was passed allowing the addition of lead to the keel up to 1560 pounds.
For some time past, since the 31-footers were changed from the old gaff rig to the more modern and taller mast for the jib-headed mainsail, some of the owners have considered the sloops somewhat tender in anything except a moderate breeze. In fact, in the last two or three seasons off Marblehead one of the sights on race days when the bay has been dotted with whitecaps has been the 31-footers laying over to the breeze.
This has caused much comment among the racing men and their friends as to whether the Bar Harbors were not trying to lug too much sail and would not be better racing craft in all conditions if their sail spread was cut down. This has been the opinion of a number of yacht designers: but the owners, instead, are of the belief that the addition of lead to the keels will make the sloops stiffer in a breeze and not lessen their speed in light going, whereas a reduction in sail area would surely slow the boats down in light airs.
Thus for the 1927 racing the owners in this one-design class are to be allowed to add any amount of lead desired up to 1560 pounds to the lead keels. In addition, throughout the season's racing this extra lead may be increased or decreased as long as the limit is not exceeded.
As the lead is to be added to the bottom of the keels, it not only will give the sloops greater displacement and bring down the center of effort, but in addition will increase the draft from an inch to over six inches according to the amount of lead added. This alone will allow the 31-footers to hang on better in going to windward.
To make the experiment with the 31-footers more complete, one of the owners has decided not to make any change in the keel for the opening races of the season. Thus, while George Lee, owner of the Mingo [#601s]: Walter K. Shaw, owner of the Indian [#599s], and Walter K. Shaw Jr. owner of the Astrild [#593s], will have lead added to the keels of their racers, Albert W. Finlays Zara [#594s] will be brought out for the 1927 racing in the same trim as for the 1926 season.
In this way real definite facts will be determined in regard to the ease of handling and the speed of the 31-footers with or without the added lead. Last Summer the Astrild, Mingo and Zara met in 19 races off Marblehead. and the records of these contests will form a basis upon which comparison can be made in the first half-dozen meetings of 1927.
At a meeting of the Bar Harbor 31-Foot Association about a month ago the regulations and restrictions of the class were revised for the coming season. Last year the Mingo was raced to the championship of the class with her mast stepped about 22 inches farther forward than the other two sloops, so that hereafter the masts on the sloops may be located up to 26 inches forward of the original Herreshoff design.
The 'Marconi' masts of the sloops are limited to 72 feet in length and cannot be less than 71 feet, while the bowsprit can extend four feet six inches outboard, with the jib stay not to exceed four feet outboard. Under the method of measurement used in the universal rating rule the sail area is limited to 1519 square feet.
The first year the 31-footers are changed from gaff to jib-headed mainsail rig two new suits of sail are allowed with one new suit every year thereafter. No limit to the number of hauling-outs was made up to July 1 of each season, but thereafter only three are allowed in a Summer, except in case of accident. Crews are limited to seven persons, including two professionals.
Complete cruising equipment is required to be carried in all races. Though the hulls must remain as designed for the Bar Harbor owners some 20 years ago, the owners are allowed to make any changes in the interior layout desired." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen. Interesting Season for 31-Footers." Boston Globe, January 30, 1927, p. 52.)

"Though there are only four of the big jib-headed mainsail-rigged sloops in the Bar Harbor 31-foot class the racing between the yachts should be very interesting in the 1927 season off Marblehead. These Herreshoff-designed craft have been in competition for more than 20 years and are giving as good sport to owners now as when they first came out.
They were built as a one-designed class for the Summer residents of Bar Harbor in 1903, where they remained until about 1910. Later they were purchased by Massachusetts Bay yachtsmen and raced at the North Shore and Hull with their original gaff-mainsail and double-head rig until about 1916, when a number of the owners changed their interests to other classes.
After the World War Albert W. Finlay changed the rig of his Zara [#594s] to the jib-headed mainsail and in the last three or four seasons off Marblehead has had class competition from the Indian [#599s] and Astrild [#593s], the latter raced until 1926 as the Vera III.
Last Fall the Red Wing [#601s] was purchased from a Narragansett Bay yachtsman and brought to Massachusetts Bay to be raced as the Mingo by George Lee, one of the best-known of the North Shore yachtsmen. In addition to the change from gaff-mainsail to jib-headed mainsail the mast of the Mingo was moved forward about 20 inches.
With one of the best suits of racing sails ever seen at the North Shore, cut by Ratsey of Cowes, the Mingo won practically all the prizes offered in the class last season, proving very fast in light-to-moderate going; but when a real breeze was encountered the Zara was pretty sure to come home in the lead.
Even under the old gaff-mainsail rig the Bar-Harbor 31-footers were considered rather tender and in the last three seasons one of the sights at the North Shore when a real breeze was blowing has been the class well sprawled out in the endeavor to lug through the heavy gusts their high rigs.
Lead Added to Keels
This caused some studying among the owners with two questions in mind: whether to cut down the amount of sail or to give the boats more lead. Finally at a meeting early this year the Bar Harbor Associations voted to allow the addition of lead to the keels of the boats up to 1560 pounds.
Thus for the 1927 racing one more experimental class is added to the Marblehead yachting; where probably more real instructive study and experimental work has been accomplished with the small racing craft than in all the other racing centers of the United States and Canada combined.
Except for the allowed changes in lead the class will remain for the 1927 season a one-designed class. Everything else is strictly limited, the height of mast to maximum and also minimum, the length of bowsprit outboard, and the sail area to 1519 square feet by the Universal Rule sail area measurement.
All the owners except Albert W. Finlay, of the Zara are to add lead to keel of their racers, and in every case up to the limit. Already on one of the sloops, George Lee's Mingo, the lead has been added for last week at Graves' yard, Little Harbor. 1560 pounds of lead was poured into a mould and bolted to the bottom of the keel. This adds about six inches to the draft of the Mingo, as the added lead is spread over the entire length of the original keel. In the cases of the Indian, owned by Walter K. Shaw, and Astrild owned by Walter K. Shaw Jr. the sloops will he given much greater added draft, nearly 20 inches. This will be due to the fact that by far the greater portion of the lead will be added to the after end of the keel.
Though no added lead will be given the Zara, it is understood that the Finlay racer will have a new rig, with mast moved forward nearly to the location of that on the Mingo. Thus one of the class will race this season in practically the same trim as 1926, with the other three made considerably more powerful, owing to added lead and greater draft. Changes in all four are from the office of Crowninshield, Burbank & Howard.
The showing of the four in the class should be very interesting to all yachtsmen of Marblehead who make a close study of the game. Will the Astrild, Indian and Mingo with the three-quarters of a ton extra outside ballast be slowed up in light going more than be counteracted by the sure increase in stability for fresh breezes?" (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen. Changes in Bar Harbor 31-Footers." Boston Globe, March 27, 1927, p. 54.)

"The Bar Harbor 31-footers, designed and built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Summer residents of Bar Harbor, are the largest of the one-designers. These boats were raced at the Maine port until about 1910, when a number were bought for the Massachusetts Bay sport. Until the United States entered the World War they were raced here under their old gaff rig, but about half a dozen years ago the Zara [#594s] was changed by Albert W. Finlay to the jib-headed mainsail rig.
In the last four or five seasons at Marblehead two or three of the class have been raced with the newer rig, and this Summer there will be four in the sport. The owners of three of the sloops are to try an interesting experiment in trim and stability of the 31-footers by the addition of 1560 pounds of lead as extra outside ballast.
The showing of Walter K. Shaw Jr's Astrild [#593s], Walter K. Shaw's Indian [#599s] and George Lee's Mingo [#601s] against the Zara, which has not had the lead added, will be watched with considerable interest by all yachtsmen of the bay. not only for the racing qualities of the big sloops, but also for the results of extra strains on the 20-year-old hulls by the added lead that has increased the drafts six to eight inches.
The owners of the sloops of this class are all members of the Bar Harbor Thirty-One Foot Association, of which Albert W. Finlay is president and Stephen J. Connolly is secretary. Recently the secretary has issued a pamphlet of the special rules governing the class. The regulations are:
Bar Harbor Class Restrictions
1. The hull must be built upon the original design; the interior arrangement of the cabin may be changed, but adequate accommodations for cruising shall be maintained.
2. The lead keel may be increased in weight 1560 pounds, or any part thereof; each yacht owner shall report the actual lead ballast carried as above and any change of same, to the secretary.
3. The mast shall not be less than 71 feet over all and not more than 72 feet over all.
4. Total sail area shall not exceed 1519 square feet based upon Universal Rule measurement.
5. Jib stay shall not exceed four feet outboard.
6. Number of units of sails, two first year, one each year after.
7. Number of haul outs, as often as desired up to July 1; for the remainder of the season three, except in case of accident.
8. Total number of crew not to exceed seven; two professionals allowed.
9. Complete cruising equipment must be carried, with the exception of tender.
10. The mast may be stepped at any point from that of the original design to that of the 'Mingo' at present; this point is 22 inches forward of the original step." (Source: Anon. "Bar Harbor 31-Footers ... Sure to Give Good Sport." Boston Globe, May 22, 1927, p. A24.)

"The largest yachts regularly entered for the championships are the one-designed Bar Harbor 31-footers, now giving the best sport in their more than 20 years of existence. Three of the four in the class, Walter K. Shaw Jr's Astrild [#593s], Walter K. Shaw's Indian [#599s] and George Lee's Mingo [#601s ex Redwing] have had 1560 pounds of lead added to the bottom of the lead keels, while the Astrild, Indian and Albert W. Finlay's Zara [#594s] have had changes made in their rigs to correspond to that of the Mingo. This included the moving of the masts forward about 20 inches." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Globe, June 5, 1927, p. A24.)

"[The] Bar Harbor 31-footers [are] the largest yachts in the regular championship classes, and for 1928 they will be nearer one-design in rig and hull than for any season since the big sloops were changed to jibheaded mainsail rig. With the addition of 1600 pounds of lead, bolted to the bottom of the keel of Albert W. Finlay's Zara this Winter, the four sloops are identical as far as weight of lead keels.
The Bar Harbor 31-footers, Walter K. Shaw's Astrild [#593s], Walter K. Shaw's Indian [#599s], George Lee's Mingo [#601s] and Albert W. Finlay's Zara [#594s] should be a handsome sight coming down the wind this Summer smothered under light sails. At the Bar Harbor Association's annual meeting this Spring the owners decided to lift the halyard blocks for spinnakers and balloon jibs to the mastheads.- With practically 70-foot masts this means enormous light sails, so it is very lucky for the other racing craft that the Bar Harbors are to be started 10 minutes ahead of every other class." (Source: Anon. "Greatest Season Ever At Marblehead Opens May 30." Daily Boston Globe, May 27, 1928, p. C17.)

"INDIAN DONATED TO MUSEUM
by George E. Lockwood
It was with mixed feelings that I turned over the Herreshoff Bar Harbor 30 sloop, INDIAN, to the Herreshoff Marine Museum in late 1979. The INDIAN has been part of the Lockwood family life since we acquired her in 1951 following the loss of a sister ship in a November, 1950 hurricane.
It is quite difficult to describe the pleasure we received from always having the best looking boat in the harbor. I realize this is a subjective opinion, but after having the same thought expressed by dozens and dozens of people, it is hard not to believe it. Not only is the INDIAN particularly handsome, but she is also particularly fast. This is not so subjective; in the thirty years I owned her, I am sure I could count on my fingers the number of times a boat larger or smaller passed the INDIAN. On her final delivery sail from Boothbay Harbor to Cape Cod Canal, she covered the 150 miles in twenty-two hours. During my ownership, the INDIAN averaged pretty close to 100 days a year in the log, ranging from a low of eighty-five to a high of one hundred and twenty and cruised between the James River and the Bras d'Or Lakes. Her five cruises to the Chesapeake taught the Lockwood family to be one of the most skilled group of kedgers. Perhaps this came from an unfortunate predilection to take 8 1/2 feet of draft through a place where the chart says 8 ft. 7 in.
Five children were raised on the INDIAN and all of them have become very devoted and skillful sailors. Three of them at present own their own cruising sail boats.
The history of the INDIAN, as far as my knowledge is concerned is somewhat fragmentary. Somewhere along about 1910 she was given to Walter K. Shaw, Jr. by his father as a wedding present.
About that time the class left Bar Harbor and moved to Marblehead, where it was raced actively. Mr. Shaw, Sr. who owned a sister ship, was a very active and avid experimenter with the new 'Marconi' rig, so he and his son made various experimental changes to the rigs.
About the season of 1934, the INDIAN was bought by William J. Prescott who used her both as a day sailor and as a cruiser. I do not know who owned her during the war years except that the Graves Yard in Marblehead owned her for about a year before the end of the war. In the spring of 1945, she was bought by Mr. Gorton who kept her summers in the Connecticut River at Essex.
In November 1950 my Bar Harbor 30, ARIEL, was lost in a storm. Since I so much liked these boats and the way they perform, I immediately searched for another Bar Harbor 30 and wound up buying the INDIAN in April 1951. Now the wheel has come full circle and she has come back to where she was built seventy-eight years ago." (Source: Herreshoff Marine Museum Chronicle, Spring 1980, p. 4.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled 'Bar Harbor class [#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s]. 2nd model [Model 713]. 1st trial. Sc[ale] 3/4. Sept[ember] 25 1903 []sic, i.e. 1902'. With calculations arriving at a displacement of 337.5cuft [= 21600lbs]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03990. Folder [no #]. 1902-09-25.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with radials titled 'Bar Harbor Class. # 592 to 604 inclusive [#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s]. From finished model. Oct[ober] 2, 1902. Scale 1/16. W.l. 30ft 9in'. With tabulated calculations distinguishing between 'displacement body part' and 'displacement total' and arriving at a total displacement of 330.5cuft = 21160lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_04130. Folder [no #]. 1902-10-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Nos. 592 to 604 inclusive [#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s]. Oct[ober] 7, 1902. 1/8 size'. With calculations (marked 'By planimeter') and note 'Required lead casting of 10000lbs with c.g. [at] 55.4[%] of w.l. = 17.05ft aft ...'. With note 'Dec[ember] 11, 1902. #592. With all w[ei]g[h]ts represented proved too deep in water and 1045lbs removed, was then 30ft 10 3/4in w.l. Have decided to take a piece of equal thickness off top of lead = 2 3/8in' and calculations to derive this amount." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_09280. Folder [no #]. 1902-10-07.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02171 (029): Blueprint general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile titled 'Preliminary Plan of Bar Harbor Cruising Class [#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s]. Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Bristol, R.I. Scale 1/4in = 1ft. Oct[ober] 9, 1902'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0028. WRDT08, Folder 3, formerly MRDE08. 1902-10-09.)
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"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in ink) rating rule-related table on two pages with dimensions LOA, LWL, overhang fore & aft, mean length, freeboard fore & center & aft, breadth deck & w.l., draft, cube-root (displacement), 1st mast mean length, 1st to 2nd mast, J, P1, H1, B1, G1, V1, T1, P2, P2a, H2, B2, Q2, Y2,T2, sail area, sqrt(SA), sqrt(SA - NYYC Rule) for #605s RELIANCE, #499s COLUMBIA, #725s RESOLUTE, #529s MINEOLA, #663s ISTALENA, #666s AVENGER, New York 50s (#711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s), #411s GLORIANA, #685s ADVENTURESS, #617s COCK ROBIN II, #586s NELLIE, #709s JOYANT, #708s CORINTHIAN, #670s SENECA, Bar Harbor 31s (#592s, #593s, #594s, #595s, #596s, #597s, #598s, #599s, #600s, #601s, #602s, #603s, #604s), New York 30s (#626s, #627s, #628s, #629s, #630s, #631s, #632s, #633s, #635s, #636s, #637s, #638s, #639s, #640s, #642s, #643s, #647s, #648s), Newport 29s (#727s, #728s, #737s), #691s MORE JOY, #446s ALERION II, Buzzards Bay 550s (#733s, #734s, #736s, #738s, #741s), #617s COCK ROBIN II, #493s JILT, #732s SADIE, #460s KILDEE, Buzzards Bay 15s (#503s Class), Buzzards Bay 12 1/2s (#744s Class), #703s FLYING CLOUD, #669s ELEANOR, #722s KATOURA, #692s WESTWARD, #657s QUEEN, #719s VAGRANT II, #698s VAGRANT, #663s ISTALENA, and #743s HASWELL. With penciled note 'Measurements in ft & inches. Results in ft & decimals'. Undated (the youngest boat on this list is from 1914/1915 and this was probably prepared in preparation for NGH's sail area rating rule of 1914/1915)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Handwritten Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE15_00100. Folder [no #]. No date (1914 / 1915 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Brokerage listing (File No. 1096) for #599s INDIAN. Dimensions, particulars (Rig: Bar Harbor 31 foot sloop). Remarks 'Marconi rigged'." (Source: Belknap & Paine, Yacht Brokers (creator). Broker Listing. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.111. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Brokers Listings. No date (1937 ???).)
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"[Item Description:] (Postcard?) photo of early HMM wharf showing #616s BAMBINO, #580s TRIVIA, #599s INDIAN and #248p THANIA ex-TODDY WAX" (Source: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection Item LIB_2150. Photograph. HMM Library Rare Books Room (Box 1), Folder [no #], formerly 178?. No date (1980s ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #599s Indian even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Bray, Maynard. "Two Views of the Herreshoff Bar Harbor 31s." Day, Fritz and Frances. "Desperate Lark." Bray, Maynard. "Holding the Shape the Herreshoff Way." Wooden Boat #45, March/April 1982, p. 68-74. (520 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text). Bar Harbor 31 class portrait with special emphasis on #602s Desperate Lark ex Cricket and detailed description of why Herreshoff boats have been able to hold their shape better over time than many other yachts.

• Indian (HMCo-made index card)
• Indian (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: Indian
Type: J & M
Length: 30'9"
Owner: Allison, W. C.

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

• Indian
• 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: Indian
Type: 31' cutter
Owner: W. C. Allison
Year: 1903
Row No.: 297

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.

Month: Oct. [sic, i.e. no month]
Year: 1903 [sic, i.e. 1902]
E/P/S: S
No.: 0599
Name: Indian
LW: 30' 9"
B: 10' 4"
D: 7' 3"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: $4960.00
Notes Constr. Record: Bar Harbor class, double rig head.
Last Name: Allison
First Name: W. 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.

"LOA 48ft 9in from pencilled note on construction plan 76-46." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 25, 2013.)

"Launch date signifies the date vessel was taken on low gear to cove for winter storage." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 4, 2011.)

"Built in 146 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $34/day, 145 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Sail area 1492 sqft from rating rule-related table handwritten (in ink) by N. G. Herreshoff on two pages with multiple dimensions for the most important Herreshoff-designed yachts in the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. MRDE15, Folder [no #]. Undated (the youngest boat on this list is from 1914/1915 and this was probably prepared in preparation for NGH's sail area rating rule of 1914/1915)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 16, 2020.)

"Displacement 330.5 cu.ft. [= 21,152 lbs] from untitled two-page rating-rule-related table handwritten (in ink) by N. G. Herreshoff with multiple dimensions for the most important Herreshoff-designed yachts. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum. MRDE15, Folder [no #]. Undated (the most recent boat dates 1914/1915 and the table was probably prepared in preparation for NGH's sail area rating rule of 1914/1915)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 16, 2020.)

"Designed disp. on 30ft-9in W.L., 21415 lbs." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Penciled note on construction plan 76-46.)

"Donated in 1979 by George E. Lockwood to the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 8, 2012.)

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