HMCo #660s Chewink VI

"No. 660 [#660s].
21ft jib & mainsail.
Frame spaces 9".
Deduct in making moulds
for planking 5/8"
for timbers 1" except [frame] nos. 19 to 25 inclusive 15[sic] he[sic] 1" at head and increasing moulded way 1/8" per ft.
Keel 1 5/8" thick (1 1/4 above rabbate)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.153.] Undated (March 1906). Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"The two boats [#659s Skiddoo and #660s Chewink VI] ordered by members of the Eastern Y.C. from the Herreshoff Mfg. Co., of Bristol, are under construction and will be completed in time for the trial races." (Source: Anon. "Herreshoff Sonderklasse Boats." Forest and Stream, June 9, 1906, p. 919.)

"Wednesday [October 17, 1906] night the sloop yacht Chewink VI, owned by F. G. Macomber, of Boston, arrived at the Franklin street freight yards of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The craft was shipped from Marblehead to the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company where she will receive a few alterations and repairs and be stored for the winter at the company's ship yard at Walker's cove." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, October 19, 1906, p. 2.)

"The racing yacht Chewink VI, owned by F. G. Macomber, a Boston yachtsman, was shipped yesterday over the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad to Marblehead, Mass., where she will again enter the races there this season. The craft, which was built by the Herreshoffs in 1905-6, was wintered at the Walker cove ship yard." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, May 24, 1907, p. 2.)

"... Sonder boat racing is likely to appear in a new locality next season, as indications point to the formation of a class of these little craft at Detroit. For some time the Chewink VI, built for Frank G. Macomber Jr by Herreshoff in 1906, has been owned by Phineas Armstrong of Detroit, and she will be raced next Summer against the Panther. ... The Panther was built from the designs of W. Starling Burgess for Caleb Loring of the Eastern Yacht Club in 1911. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, October 7, 1917, p. 60.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled 'No. 660 [#660s CHEWINK VI]. 1906'. With calculations arriving at a total displacement of 72.618cuft = 4657.492lbs and a wetted surface of 144.89[sqft]. Style and handwriting suggest that it may not have been NGH who wrote this but his son Sidney." (Source: Herreshoff, A.S. deW. (?) (creator) or Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01690. Folder [no #]. 1906.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '#660 [CHEWINK VI]. 1906'. With calculations arriving at a total displacement of 71.988cuft = 4607.232lbs and a wetted surface of 153.68[sqft]. On verso another set of penciled hull sections (crossed out), a half-breadth plan, a hull profile and some weight calculations. Style and handwriting suggest that it may not have been NGH who wrote this but his son Sidney." (Source: Herreshoff, A.S. deW. (?) (creator) or Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01700. Folder [no #]. 1906.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'No 660 [#660s CHEWINK VI]. Lead. Scale 1/4 size. April 1, 1906'. With calculations and note 'Required. 2427lbs with c.g. .507 of wl'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_07910. Folder [no #]. 1906-04-01.)
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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:
§69: Work Order [For] #659s, #660s. [When wanted] May 15. Rigging [2 pages] (1906-03-22)
§71: Work Order [For] #659s, #660s. [When wanted] May 15. Blocks (1906-03-22)." (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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"[Item Transcription:] [Typewritten (mimeographed) note:] Extract from letter from J. J. Lynn, Port Huron, Mich., regarding performance of Chewink VI [#660s] on the Lakes.
The little boat did fine this season, 6 starts, 4 firsts, 2 seconds, one race a big cabin boat beat her 28 seconds in 12 miles, blowing 32 miles per hour. While we had plenty of water in her at times, her actions were admired, in fact, on the last leg home we shook out both reefs and was the only boat that day under full canvass. The Sonders of her type are going to be added to the lake fleets. [Undated, Lynn is known is known to have owned her in 1912 but had sold her by 1914.]" (Source: Lynn, James J. (creator). Letter Extract. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02140. Folder [no #]. No date (between 1908 and 1913).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #660s Chewink VI even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Chewink VI (HMCo-made index card)
• Chewink VI (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: Cheewink [sic, i.e. Chewink] IV
Type: J & M
Length: 21'
Owner: Macomber, F. A.

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

• Chewink VI
• 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: Chewink VI
Type: 22' 9" sonder boat
Owner: F. G. Macomber
Year: 1906
Row No.: 113

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: Mar
Day: 10
Year: 1906
E/P/S: S
No.: 0660
Name: Chewink VI
LW: 21'
B: 6' 5"
D: 4' 6"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: O. Lead
Amount: 2145.00 [sic, i.e. 2175 ?]
Last Name: Macomber
First Name: F. G.

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.

"Unsuccessful contender for the German-American Sonder-class races, held in August 1906 off Marblehead." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 17, 2010.)

"Sail number 5 as per Boston Globe, August 15, 1906, p. 8." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 17, 2010.)

"Sonderklasse Rule boats were the result of a German measurement rule that limited the sum of a boat's waterline length, beam, and draft to 32'. In addition, the sail area was fixed at 550 square feet, the displacement had to be at least 4,035 lbs, the boat was to be single-planked with a minimum plank thickness of at least 5/8", and the boat could not cost more than $2,400." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 26, 2015.)

"Sail area (550sq ft) as per Sonderklasse rule limit." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 26, 2015.)

"[Displacement (4455 lbs).]" (Source:Boston Globe, August 15, 1906, p. 8.)

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