HMCo #674s Flicker [BB15 for St. Y. Columbia]

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

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

"Three Steam Yachts Chartered. --- Messrs. Tams, Lemoine & Crane have made the following charters: ..., the steam yacht Columbia, owned by Mr. J. Harvey Ladey, to Mr. Walter G. Ladd, ... [Columbia was apparently also chartered by Ladd in subsequent years. He used her in 1906 to carry from her davits the Herreshoff 15-footer Nora (#527s Nova/Nora? Or #554s? now Fiddler?) and, in 1907, the Herreshoff 15-footer #674s Flicker. Columbia was a 179.4ft LOA, 165.0ft LWL, 33.6ft beam brigantine-rigged steam yacht built of steel at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, NJ in 1899 for J. H. Ladew of New York. She was listed as Ladew's steam yacht in Lloyd's Register of Yachts U.K. until 1915 but not in later issues. A photo of her taken by John S. Johnston, neg. no. 218, has survived. In 1909, as per the New York Times of July 18, 1909, p. X2, Ladd chartered the steam yacht Emeline (LOA 101.5ft, built in 1893), and in 1910, as per the New York Times of July 24, 1910, p. C12 he had the use of the yacht Ketoh, but we do not know if they were also used to carry Flicker.]" (Source: Anon. "Yachting News Notes." Forest & Stream, July 1, 1905, p. 13.)

"Apr. 26, 1907
Mr. Walter G. Ladd
31 Nassau St.,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Sir:-
Referring to yours of Apr. 25th, beg to say that we would be pleased to build you a 15 footer of the same design as the Nora, with lifting eyes to lift at davits, and can have same ready for you about June 1st. Price with cedar planking and painted will be Nine Hundred and Seventy-five ($975.00) dollars, or if with mahogany planking varnished price will be Ten Hundred and Seventy-five ($1075.00) dollars. We have built several of these boats to be carried on davtis, in some cases mahogany varnished and in others cedar and painted.
Kindly inform us if you wish to order and which kind of planking and we will send you contract for same for your signature.
Respectfully,
[signed: Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Y.]
[Note 1: The 'Y' in the signature is the initial of Charles Wesley Young, HMCo secretary and treasurer from about 1885 until his death in 1924.
Note 2: The reference to the 15-footer Nora is unclear. There was a Newport 15 named #527s Nova or Nora (the Construction Record and HMCo-made index card make it impossible to decide between the two) and the write could have referred to this boat. Or he could have referred to #554s Nora, now known as Fiddler and in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum. But Fiddler is believed to have been named Fiddler since 1903... See discussion of Nora/Fiddler provenance in HCR under #554s Nora." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (Secretary C. W. Young). Letter to Walter G. Ladd. Photocopy in Series VI, Folder HH.6.11 (Hull No. 674), Box HAFH.6.1B in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass.)

"May 10, 1907
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.
Bristol, Rhode Island.
Dear Sirs:
I am in receipt of your favors of April 26th and May 8th. I have about decided to place an order with you for a 15 footer, but think it will be best for me to talk with you before so doing, as I wish to have a self-bailing cockpit if such can be arranged so that Mrs. Ladd who is not strong can seat herself comfortably therein: then too I have not yet ascertained the spread of davits on the yacht, and recall that I had difficulty last season with the S.Y. Columbia's davits when handling 'Nora'.
I now expect to be in Boston the coming week, and, if so, will run down to Bristol.
Yours very truly, ..." (Source: Ladd, Walter G. Letter to Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Photocopy in Series VI, Folder HH.6.11 (Hull No. 674), Box HAFH.6.1B in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass.)

"May 20, 1907
Mr. N. G. Herreshoff
of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Bristol, Rhode Island
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your favor of the 17th instant and accept without hesitation your advice to leave out the center-board and to increase the draft of the 15-footer 6 or 7 inches, making it 3ft., 4in. I note that you will proceed with the drawings and specifications, keeping to the other things we talked of.
I have written to Capt. Bond of the steam yacht 'Columbia' as to the distance between the davits from which the 15-footer will be hung; also to Mr. Robert Jacob for the spacing between the lifting eyes of the 'Nora' as they were last year and will advise you as soon as I receive the replies.
If in your opinion it is worth the additional expense of building of mahogany planking painted, instead of cedar planking painted, you will please do so, though I am under the impression you stated that in a 15-footer it was hardly worth doing so.
You will note from the above, as stated when conversing with you last Friday, that I feel you will take a personal interest in this small boat, and I leave the matter in your hands with perfect confidence.
Yours very truly" (Source: Ladd, Walter Graeme. [Letter to N. G. Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.] May 20, 1907, no place.)

"May 29, 1907
Mr. N. G. Herreshoff
of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Bristol, Rhode Island
Dear Sir,
Referring to your letter of May 27, 1907 I enclose you with the copies of letters received from Capt. Bond of the steam yacht 'Columbia' and from Mr. Robert Jacob, City Island, New York in re lifting eyes on the 'Nora' last summer.
You will note that Capt. Bond states davits were adjusted to 17ft. space, and then the two falls pulled from the boat, while Mr. Jacob gives the distance between the lifting eyes as of 17ft. and 10in.
Please note; Capt. Bond informs me that the 'hooks' used to lift the 15-footer are 1 1/4in. iron and that the lifting eyes in the 15-footer should be 2in. on the inside so that the hooks will have plenty of room to work.
Awaiting your further favors, I am
Yours very truly ...
P.S. Please bear in mind, I wish the lifting eyes sunk so they will be flush with the deck and not prove an obstruction --- you will recall that we spoke of this matter. [The letter mentioning 'the two falls pulled from the boat' (Nora' suggests the possibility that Nora was destroyed during the incident which would have necessitated building Flicker as her replacement. Note that Nora is believed to be #554s now-Fiddler but that her provenance cannot be fully ascertained.]" (Source: Ladd, Walter Graeme. [Letter to N. G. Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.] May 29, 1907, no place.)

"June 28, 1907
Messrs Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.
Bristol, Rhode Island
Dear Sirs,
I am in receipt of your favor of June 28, 1907, and as requested will notify you a day ahead of the time when I will call for Flicker. I may add that I now expect it to be on Wednesday, July the third.
Yours very truly, ..." (Source: Ladd, Walter Graeme. [Letter to N. G. Herreshoff Manufacturing Company.] June 28, 1907, no place.)

"We are delighted to announce our most recent donation to the collection, the deep draft Buzzards Bay 15, FLICKER, HMCo. #674. This virtually unrestored daysailer was donated by Maynard Bray of Brooklin, ME and is an exceptional example of original HMCo. construction techniques. She is currently on display in the Hall of Boats, and plans to rig her for display are underway. Details of a celebration to welcome her 'home' will be forthcoming." (Source: Anon. The Current. Newsletter of the Herreshoff Marine Museum. October 2019.)

"FLICKER
A modified Buzzards Bay 15 Sloop.
On July 2, 1907, Walter Ladd's chartered steam yacht Columbia stopped at Herreshoff's, lowered the davit tackles and attached them to Flicker's deck-mounted, recessed hoisting shackles, took her onboard when brand new, and headed for Bar Harbor. Ladd loved to sail, and his invalid wife, Kate, enjoyed coastal cruising, so the steamyacht-and-daysailer combination suited them perfectly, Flicker being always at hand. Ladd and the four subsequent owners have always kept this grand little boat well maintained and carefully used so that Flicker has never required a rebuild or even a complete refastening. Few, if any, wooden boats this old can surpass that claim. Although antique, she's still a fast and beautiful lady. In return for care and respect, she gives you an appreciation for things delicate and simple." (Source: Bray, Maynard and Benjamin Mendlowitz (photos). The Book of Wooden Boats, Volume III. New York, 2010, p. 24.)

"[Flicker]. Built June, 1907 --- Cost $1,100
Weight about 2,100 lbs.
N.G. Herreshoff wrote May 17, 1907 to owner 'be advised making it keel, i.e. leaving centerboard out and increasing draft 6 or 7 inches, making 3’4' draft only. This would give you [a] very much better cockpit, a stronger boat, abler in a strong breeze and even better in [illegible] than at present.'
1916 New main & jib, standing & running rigging, and mainsail cover $142.98
1920 Set of rigging $99.00
1923 New mainsail, No 1 jib, and mainsail cover $192.50
1924 New rigging except shrouds & backstays $41.88
1925 New main shrouds with turnbuckles $22.00
1925 New mainsail cover $18.93 [Information compiled by Maynard Bray based on original correspondence with original owner and boatman.]" (Source: Bray, Maynard. Email to Claas van der Linde. February 22, 2011.)

"We discovered Flicker while rummaging through Brewer’s Boatyard (now Boothbay Region Boatyard) located at the head of Ebenecook Harbor on Southport Island in Maine. This was in the 1960s while we were living in Woolwich and I was working at Bath Iron Works.
She sat in a shed year in and year out, it seemed, with only an occasional commissioning. But she kept well and her cedar planking never dried out. I know, because I never missed a chance to check on her when in the area. At one point the yard recanvassed her deck. I remember seeing her afloat and rigged behind Capitol Island only once. That’s where David Stiles, her owner, had the mooring.
I spent several hours onboard measuring her floorboards and seats one day while I was working at Mystic Seaport, then used those measurements to build and install new floorboards for the Seaport’s Buzzards Bay 15 Fiddler [#554s ex-Nora], which Sonny Hodgdon had restored and in which he’d really screwed up on the floorboards --- despite my having urged him to go look at Flicker which was only a few miles from his East Boothbay shop.
Over the years since then, Flicker became a kind of obsession. I felt I had to someday own that boat. A letter or two to David Stiles went unanswered, so I called him one day to follow up. David said his plan was to donate her to a museum and that he’d already sent out feelers. I was crushed.
Then, one day, out of the blue, he called saying that he could find no interest among the museums he’d contacted and that he’d decided to sell. But there was a hitch. Bill Beardsley, another Herreshoff nut like me, had also discovered Flicker and had also inquired about buying her. Bill is a good friend and we decided to partner on her purchase instead of compete. So we each came up with $1,250, sent our checks to David, and I drove to Boothbay to pick up the boat. She was in Jeff Lowell’s garage behind the Hodgdon 21 Windbag, and I had quite a task, after constructing a cradle, to squeeze past her. It was well after dark by the time I drove up our driveway that June day with Flicker in tow aboard WoodenBoat’s flatbed trailer.
Flicker had a couple of loose butts that needed pulling in and refastening before I dared launch her. Despite this repair, she leaked steadily after she went overboard --- constant, all summer long. Finally, near the end, a dose of liquid Boatlife applied by syringe through a small hole I’d drilled into the errant floor timbers to hit the loosened floor-to-keel bolt did the trick, a bolt at a time. She tightened right up with very little leakage after that treatment. Only four or five bolts were loose and leaking, so the fix was quick and easy.
Bill came sailing once and another time, with Mike McCaffery, helped scrape paint in the cockpit for an afternoon. But after a couple of years it became obvious that he wouldn’t have much opportunity for use (he owns a Buzzards Bay 15 at home in Marion, Massachusetts}, so at his suggestion, we bought him out.
Flicker came with a buff deck that we changed to Bermuda Green. Her floorboards were very loose, having shed many of their fastenings. Over the 2nd winter, I took all the floorboards out (no big job), stripped the paint (there was plenty), and put them back using stainless steel screws which I thought would hold better than bronze. They, too, were painted green, but a darker shade.
Flicker is amazingly original, with only a few sister frames near the bow. At some point, access hatches had been cut in both of her watertight bulkheads. But not much else had been tampered with since she was launched in 1908. I don’t know of many boats that can make this claim. She’s what Ed McClave calls a three dimensional research library that shows exactly how the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. built its boats. I hope she never gets restored. She’s old and weak and we use her gently. Eggemoggin Reach has no big seas even when it’s blowing hard, so it’s an ideal body of water for this old lady.
With Nat Wilson’s guidance, I’ve discovered that Flicker can take a hell of a lot of wind with full sail. You just pull the jib in as far as you can so it backwinds the mainsail, and slack out the main sheet so there’s a big “bubble” in the mainsail. She still scoots along very well like this, with ease, and with the lee rail clear of the water.
Because there are no runners, Hudson River jibes can be carried out, even in blowy weather. It’s hard on the gaff jaws, but otherwise, there’s very little strain on the rest of the boat. For this maneuver, you just swing her rapidly across the wind and keep the sheet from fouling as the boom carries it from one side to the other. With the tiller still held down, the boat spins so fast that by the time the sail jibes, there’s wind on its back side to cushion it. At that point, the boat’s heading is as a close reach, so there’s a course correction to be made by heading off downwind again. It’s spectacular to watch. At the beginning, it looks as if the wind will take out the rig, but then there’s the backwind cushioning, and what starts out with bluster, at the end comes to nothing.
She’s a lovely thing to handle. At the mooring with the mainsail up and the sheet free, she’ll just hang there for as long as you want, with no tendency to start sailing. Yet, when you cast off and want get underway, you just reverse the helm and let her bow drop off to one side, then very gently pull in the sheet to give her some forward motion, and off you go. Setting the jib speeds up the process, but isn’t necessary. She does fine under main alone.
Alec Brainerd has built a couple of Flicker clones, that is, boats modified as she was from the Buzzards Bay 15, having heavier scantlings and a full keel without the centerboard. The first, named Murmur, has been on the Calendar of Wooden Boats and was discussed at length at the 2010 Herreshoff Marine Museum’s Classic Yacht Symposium.
When we’re finished using Flicker, we’ll give maritime museums another try. She’s better known now, and I believe we’ll find an institution that will accept her --- and agree to keep her original." (Source: Bray, Maynard. "Herreshoff 15 Flicker." January 28, 2012, edited April 16, 2013.)

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"[Item Transcription:] [Photocopy of a letter:] Referring to yours of Apr. 25th [1907], beg to say that we would be pleased to build you a 15 footer [#674s FLICKER] of the same design as the Nora, with lifting eyes to lift at davits, and can have same ready for you about June 1st. Price with cedar planking and painted will be Nine Hundred and Seventy-five ($975.00) dollars, or if with mahogany planking varnished price will be Ten Hundred and Seventy-five ($1075.00) dollars.
We have built several of these boats to be carried on davtis, in some cases mahogany varnished and in others cedar and painted.
Kindly inform us if you wish to order and which kind of planking and we will send you contract for same for your signature.
Respectfully, [signed: Herreshoff Mfg. Co. Y.]" (Source: Young, Charles Wesley (Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. secretary). Letter to Ladd, Walter G. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.011. Box HAFH.6.1B, Folder Hull No. 674s. 1907-04-26.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am in receipt of your favors of April 26th and May 8th [1907]. I have about decided to place an order with you for a 15 footer [#674s FLICKER], but think it will be best for me to talk with you before so doing, as I wish to have a self-bailing cockpit if such can be arranged so that Mrs. Ladd who is not strong can seat herself comfortably therein: then too I have not yet ascertained the spread of davits on the yacht, and recall that I had difficulty last season with the S.Y. Columbia's davits when handling 'Nora'.
I now expect to be in Boston the coming week, and, if so, will run down to Bristol.
Yours very truly, ..." (Source: Ladd, Walter G. Letter to Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.011. Box HAFH.6.1B, Folder Hull No. 674s. 1907-05-10.)
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"[Item Description:] Typewritten (carbon copy) list titled 'One Design, Fifteen Footers' and listing 'Number' (from #503s to #890s), 'Year' (from 1898 to 1922), 'Ordered by' (name) and 'Rig' (Jib & Mainsail or Marconi) for 80 Buzzards Bay 15s and concluding with '80 boats from one design moulds'. (Interestingly, the special deep keel #674s FLICKER is listed while the other three special deep keel 15-footers are not listed.)" (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (?) (creator). Typewritten List. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00320. Folder [no #]. No date (1922 or later).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #674s Flicker [BB15 for St. Y. Columbia] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

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

• Flicker (HMCo-made index card)
• Flicker (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: Flicker
Type: J & M
Length: 15'
Owner: Ladd, W. G.

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

• Flicker
• 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: Flicker
Type: 15' J & M
Owner: W. G. Ladd
Row No.: 226

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: May
Day: 23
Year: 1907
E/P/S: S
No.: 0674
Name: Flicker
LW: 15'
B: 6' 9"
D: 3' 4.5"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: O. Lead
Amount: 1100.00
Last Name: Ladd
First Name: W. 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.

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

"[See also:] Correspondence (1907) (copy). In: Technical and Business Records pertaining to the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Series VI, Folder HH.6.11 (Hull No. 674), Box HAFH.6.1B." (Source: Hasselbalch, Kurt and Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin: Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997, p. 63-79.)

"#674s Flicker, #677s Dad and #682s Marjorie were modified deep-draft Buzzard Bay 15s without centerboard, a draft of 3' 4 1/2" and a sheer that was raised 2 inches. All three boats were fitted with recessed hoisting shackles to facilitate hoisting the boats on the davits of a steam yacht. #677s Dad and #682s Marjorie were double-planked with mahogany outside and all-mahogany trimmings as per notes in the Construction Record and the special construction plan HH.5.05490 (076-031). Still deeper with a draft of 4' 3" and also no centerboard was #559s Little Robin, a cruising boat based on the Buzzards Bay 15 model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 19, 2014.)

"Dimensions from special construction plan HH.5.05490 (076-031)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 19, 2014.)

"Donated in September 2019 by Maynard Bray to the Herreshoff Marine Museum." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 12, 2019.)

"Built in 41 days (contract to delivered; equivalent to $27/day, 61 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Sail area 330 sq ft estimated from a letter in the Seawanhaka Collection in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum by NGH to George Nichols, dated September 2, 1914 in which NGH offeres to build a deep draft Herreshoff 15-footer: 'The '15 footer' dimensions are 24 1/2ft over all, 15ft water line, 6ft 9in extreme breadth, 3ft 6in draft with keel, about 39 cubic feet displacement, sail area 330 square feet.' (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 22, 2015.)

"Displacement 39 cu ft estimated from a letter in the Seawanhaka Collection in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum by NGH to George Nichols, dated September 2, 1914 in which NGH offeres to build a deep draft Herreshoff 15-footer: 'The '15 footer' dimensions are 24 1/2ft over all, 15ft water line, 6ft 9in extreme breadth, 3ft 6in draft with keel, about 39 cubic feet displacement, sail area 330 square feet.' (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 22, 2015.)

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