HMCo #620s Wanderer

"Dec[ember] 16 1903.
No. 612 and class.
C[enter] b[oard] 18ft class.
Frame spaces 9".
Sheer given is under side of deck 15/16" thick with canvas over.
Deduct in making moulds
for planking 3/4"
for timbers at head 7/8"
Timbers will increase moulded ways 3/32" per foot." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.143.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BRISTOL, R. I.. Feb. 20 [1904]. --- Four of the boats of the new racing eighteen-foot class are being constructed for New York at the Herreshoff shipyards. Three of the boats are almost finished.
The new boats are attracting some interest in view of the fact that there are four other eighteen-footers from the hands of another designer being built elsewhere. The interest in the boats is due to the desire of yachtsmen to learn whether the Herreshoff boats or those designed by Boardman will prove the faster in next season's racing. All of the eighteen-footers will be finished in time for launching before the first of June. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yacht News From Bristol. Herreshoff Building Four Eighteen-Footers for New Yorkers." New York Times, February 21, 1904.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., Feb. 28 [1904] --- ... Since the first of the year three new racing boats for the eighteen-foot class have been built at the Herreshoff shops, and one other of the same class is in frame and partly planked in the south shop. The rigs for these boats are practically completed, and at least two of the craft would be afloat at this time but for the ice in the harbor, precluding the possibility of a safe launching. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yacht News of Bristol." New York Times, February 29, 1904, p. 8.)

"Official Numbers of Racing Yachts. ... Eighteen-foot, one design class. K-1 Otter [#613s]. K-2 Wizard [#612s]. K-3 Kiameche [#614s]. K-4 [Blank] [#615s]. K-5 [Blank] [#620s]." (Source: Beverly Yacht Club (publ.). "Beverly Yacht Club Annual 1915." Marion, Mass, 1915, p. 12.)

"ONE DESIGN 18-FOOTERS.
Class to be called Buzzard's Bay One Design 18-Footers. Dimensions as follows:
Length over all, 29 feet. Length on Water Line, 18 feet. Beam, 8 feet 1 in. Draft, 3 feet.
Outside Fixed Ballast, 2000 lbs.
Total Area of Working Sails, 470 sq. feet
Sails. --- Mainsail, Jib, and Spinaker.
Rules --- The owners of the 18-Footers having met together May 1st, 1904, mutually agreed:
1. That they reserve for themselves the right of admitting to participation in their races any new boats constructed upon the same lines after June 1st, 1904.
2. That in case of sale by any one of their number to any one not a member of the Beverly Yacht Club, that they reserve the right of admitting or not admitting the new owner to participation in their races.
3. That the crews to be carried when racing shall be composed of not more than three men." (Source: Beverly Yacht Club (publ.). "Beverly Yacht Club Annual 1904." Marion, Mass, 1904, p. 61-62.)

"It is worth taking a look for a moment at the 18 footer previously referred to. They looked for all the world like an enlarged 15 footer but were 29 feet overall, 8 feet 1 inch beam, draft 3 feet without centerboard, outside fixed ballast 2,000 pounds, 470 square feet sail area." (Source: Herreshoff Marine Museum Chronicle, 1994, p. 1-2.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled notes and cost calculations showing percentage discounts as a function of number of boats built (1=100%, 2=91%, 3=88%, 4=88%, 5=86%, 6=85%) and a list of boat prices as a function of number of boats built (1=1580, 2=1440, 3=1386, 4=1360, 5-1345, 6=1333). With other calculations and notes such as 'Cost of design & moulds', 'Material', 'min[?] labor', 'shop', and 'profit'. Compare with penciled notes and cost calculations titled 'Estimates for 18 footer Buzzards Bay class [#612s, #613s, #614s, #615s, #620s]. Sep[tember] 22, 1903' which shows the same list of final prices. Undated, probably also ca. September 22, 1903." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_00310. Folder [no #]. No date (1903-09 ?-21 ??).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled notes and cost calculations titled 'Estimates for 18 footer Buzzards Bay class [#612s, #613s, #614s, #615s, #620s]. Sep[tember] 22, 1903'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02750. Folder [no #]. 1903-09-22.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled '678 ? [#678s LOUISE]. 1908'. With calculations arriving at 5750cuin of lead = 2370lbs minus centerboard slot of 482lbs for a total amount of lead of 1888lbs. (Note: The question mark in the title is correct. This keel is not for LOUISE which was not a centerboard boat and whose keel outline does not match the one on this plan. Overlay with the construction plan of the Buzzards Bay 18 class [#612s, #613s, #614s, #615s, #620s] shows a near perfect match. This would date this plan to ca. December 1903)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08910. Folder [no #]. (1903-12 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections on verso of 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. Titled '18ft Buzzards Bay Class. 612 - 13 - 14 - 15 [#612s, #613s, #614s, #615s, #620s]. Final. Dec[ember] 12, 1903'. With calculations arriving at a total displacement of 63.8cuft = 4080lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03970. Folder [no #]. 1903-12-03.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #620s Wanderer even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Wanderer (HMCo-made index card)
• Wanderer (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.

Month: Dec
Year: 1903
E/P/S: S
No.: 0620
Name: Wanderer
LW: 18'
B: 8' 1"
D: 2' 10.5"
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 1140.00
Notes Constr. Record: Moulds 612. Sold to W.S. Whiting.
Last Name: Stock

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 K-5 (Eighteen Foot One-Design Class).]" (Source: Beverly Yacht Club. 1907 Yearbook. Boston, 1907.)

"Sail area main 372sqft plus jib 102sqft = 474sqft total as per notes on sail plan 130-137." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 27, 2014.)

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