HMCo #687s Naulakha

"[1909-06-11] Fri 11: #687 [Naulakha] delivered to Mr. Wainwright." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1909. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"No. [blank].
Class P. Keel jib & mainsail.
Frame spaces 12".
Frames at head 1 7/16" moulded 1 9/16" sided and to increase in siding 8/64" per foot (1" in 7 ft).
Planking 1" y[ellow] p[ine] on bottom, 1 1/16" y.p. & cedar (double) for below turn of builge[sic] up.
Keel 2 3/4" thick, reduced aft, 2" above rabbate and 3/4" below.
Deck 13/16" covered with canvas.
Sheer height given is to top of deck." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.165.] Undated, ca. March 1909. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., June 12 [1909] --- ... Sails are bent on the new 33 rating sloop Haulanka [sic, i.e. Naulakha], built by Herreshoffs and launched a week ago. She is big in the midsection, but the long bow or base of the foretriangle is the point that is surely to tell in reaching. She has no bowsprit, but her lines are clean and at once attract attention. She has a large sail area and her main-mast of the pole variety is lofty and large in diameter. She is to sail in class P against the famous Seneca [#670s], of similar dimensions that won the Rochester cup two seasons ago. In her trials there she proved fast and powerful. ..." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, June 13, 1909, p. 41.)

"BRISTOL, R. I., June 19 [1909] --- Nat Herreshoff is giving more attention to the construction of the 27-footer designed to defeat the Seneca [#670s], the winner of the Canada cup, than any small craft he built for racing this season. Great things are expected of the new boat, which is almost the last craft designed this year by Herreshoff. Everyone is showing a tinge of curiosity as to the boat's speed. It will not be long, however, before she is afloat and having a trial in the bay. She is very slender, yet of a powerful design, forward, and has a businesslike look on account of the small amount of sheer. ..." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, June 20, 1909, p. 49.)

"Stuyvesant Wainwright has purchased Naulahka, which was built last June by Herreshoff, and which was defeated by Windward in the race for the Manhasset Bay cup last summer. Mr. Wainwright has rechristened Naulahka, and she will hereafter be known as Cara Mia. She will be raced by her new owner during the coming season." (Source: Anon. "S. Wainwright Buys Naulahka." Forest and Stream, January 29, 1910, p. 185.)

"... The Manhasset bay challenge will be defended by the Cara Mia, owned by Stuyvesant Wainwright of the American yacht club. This boat was built by the Herreshoff's to win the cup in 1909, but was beaten by the Windward, sailed by Addison G. Hanan. She was then named Naulahka. Last year she defeated the Windward and the Mavourneen in the cup match. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, March 26, 1911, p. 57.)

"... The Cara Mia, which won yesterday's [Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup] race, has been sold [by her owner Stuyvesant Wainwright] to Robert L. Cuthbert, N.Y.Y.C." (Source: Anon. "The Cara Mia Wins Third Manhasset Race, but the Michicago Takes Cup." New York Herald, June 27, 1912, p. 12.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled midship section sketch titled 'Feb[ruary] 28 [19]09. Class P. Scale 3/4'. With particulars 'O.a. 49+[ft]. LWL 33[ft]. Qbl 31.12[ft]. Beam 10ft. B (wl) 9ft 8in. d 7ft 1/2in'. This is related to the design of #687s NAULAKHA." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01430. Folder [no #]. 1909-02-28.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table listing Universal Rule-related dimensions 'O.a., w.l., q.b.l., Beam, B, d, D, S, wst[?], cube-rt(D)/WL, sq-rt(S)/WL, sq-rt(S)/(1/2*(w.l.+q.b.l.))' for five boats: 'SENECA, (Slandenedist[???]), Model 'N' [at] scale 10/12, Proposed, Proposed'. Below is a list of scantlings titled 'Owen's[?] rule'. Undated, possibly related to the design of #687s NAULAKHA (CORINTHIAN and JOYANT were more extreme) which was contracted for March 1, 1909." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_02040. Folder [no #]. No date (1903-03 ??).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections, calculations, scantlings for 'No. 687 [#687s] NAULAHKA ch[anged] to CARA MIA' with note 'From finished model P class (31 rating), scale 3/4. M[ar]ch 7, 1909' with detailed dimensions and scantlings according to Mass. Bay Rules." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01370. Folder [no #]. 1909-03-07.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'No. 687 [#687s NAULAKHA] 33ft l.w.l. P class. Scale 1/8 size. M[ar]ch'. With calculations and note 'Required 2780lbs lead with c.g. at .542 of w.l. ... 2780/.411 = 6760cui ...' and concluding with note 'Result. 6757cuin with c.g. on 26.85 frame space = 2775lbs'. Undated (pantograph hull sections for QUAKERESS III were drawn on August 16, 1907)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08710. Folder [no #]. 1909-03-28.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Answering yours of June 21st, would say that the breeze in the race on Saturday was not by any means excessive, as all the 'L' 'M' and 'N' boats easily carried club topsails, so we have not yet had an opportunity to stretch the sail out of shape. The entire trouble with the mainsail is I think that the principal draft is too near the center of the sail, helping to cause a tight leach. It may be that by correcting this draft or in other words bringing it further forward. We may be able to change the center of effort somewhat. The objection to reducing the sail and our rating is that we did not get any corresponding allowance as we must go to the top of the class, and the stepping of the mast might be done, but the question then arises how far in advance should we place it. What bothers me is that I never heard that the SENACA [sic, i.e. #670s SENECA] who had a high narrow rig had any trouble of this character.
Mr. Hallock took the measurement yesterday, and I am awaiting his figures to see if we have any great latitude to help us to make any change.
Regarding the fixing of the present sail, we naturally would very much like to have you do it, and we would hate to entrust it to anybody else, but we do not see how this can be accomplished, unless we have you pass on the sail when the boat is under way in a good breeze. At the moment, we cannot think of sending the boat round to Bristol, as we want to practice in all the local races.
Upon having Mr. Hallock's final figures, we will again communicate with you.
Yours very truly, ... [The letter appears to be referring to #687s NAULAHKA, the P-boat just delivered to challenge #670s SENECA for the Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup. The previous weekend, on June 19, 1909, at the Larchmont Yacht Club's spring regatta, Naulahka had sailed her first race with disappointing results, having been beaten on actual time by the smaller #626s ALERA as reported by Forest & Stream of June 26, 1909, p. 1021. The next year, in 1910, Wainwright would acquire NAULAHKA and rename her CARA MIA.]" (Source: Wainwright, Stuyvesant. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_22990. Correspondence, Folder 67, formerly 135. 1909-06-23.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled 'NAULAHKA (ch[anged] to CARA MIA) #687. June 23, [19]09'. With notes 'To measurements given by Measurer Hallock as follows: overall 50.29[ft]. Forward overhang 9.82[ft] After over hang 7.78[ft]. [Total overhangs] 17.60[ft]. l.w. 32.69[ft]. Corresponding q.b.l. 30ft 11 1/2in'. Corresponding disp[lacement] 337cuft [= 21568lbs]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01360. Folder [no #]. 1909-06-23.)
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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:
§112: Work Order [For] #687s. [When wanted] Latter part of May. Blocks (1909-04-04)
§113: Work Order [For] #687s. [When wanted] Latter part of May. Rigging [2 pages] (1909-04-04)." (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 Description:] penciled table titled 'L1 by formula ...' and listing data for #706s ELENA, #657s IROLITA [ex-QUEEN], #698s VAGRANT I, #532s RAINBOW, #663s ISTALENA, #666s AVENGER, #685s ADVENTURESS, #703s FLYING CLOUD, #709s JOYANT and #708s CORINTHIAN, #687s CARA-MIA [ex-NAULAKHA] and NY30s" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_67730. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F01, formerly MRDE15. No date (1911 to 1915).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table titled 'P Class' with data for OA, WL, QBL, B, d, D, S, S/WS for #670s SENECA, #687s NAULAKHA, #708s CORINTHIAN and four versions of an unnamed design --- probably #709s JOYANT. Undated (JOYANT was designed in early 1911.)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01820. Folder [no #]. No date (early 1911 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] [#709s] JOYANT &c protest not to be submitted to YRALIS but to Committee, convention will establish limits to classes as there is no telling where you designers will end at the present rate, JOYANT is only a couple of years older than [#687s] CARA MIA [ex-NAULAKHA] and has double displacement yet rates the same, had a splendid cruise on ENCHANTRESS, she is a fine cruiser but no match for ELENA, [#657s] IROLITA [ex-QUEEN] was so badly sailed, PS: you did not enclose profile of JOYANT" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42880. Correspondence, Folder 92, formerly 127. 1911-07-19.)
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"[Item Description:] confidentially, have heard Manhassett Bay Committee will make following report, 1) that the words 'at or near the plane of measurement' are to mean B/10 above or below the W.L., 2) that a fair line is curve which does not increase or diminish its curvature, 3) that in case a bridge is necessary the measurement will be taken to the flattest curve in the prescribed area, 4) [#708s] CORINTHIAN, WINDWARD & two Boston boats will be ruled out as not having filed returns of crews in accordance with deed, 5) [#709s] JOYANT will be measured in accordance with the above & if she exceeds 31 rating will be ruled out, 6) [#687s] CARA-MIA [ex-NAULAKHA] would then win" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42940. Correspondence, Folder 92, formerly 127. 1911-08-30.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I have just measured 'CARA MIA' [#687s ex-NAULAKHA] for the Manhasset Bay Cup Races, and will appreciate it if you will give me her displacement and draft on a load waterline of 33.34, the forward overhang being 9.34 and the after overhang being 7.57.
An early reply will be greatly appreciated. [Incl NGH penciled calculation on recto and verso.]" (Source: Barney, Morgan (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_05560. Correspondence, Folder 20, formerly 136. 1912-06-07.)
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"[Item Description:] please give displacement of the #709s JOYANT on load waterline of 35.20, forward overhang being 12.10, after overhang, 11.05, also the draft, thank you for displacements of [#708s] CORINTHIAN and [#687s] CARA MIA [ex-NAULAKHA] just received." (Source: Barney, Morgan (Measurer American YC). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_05580. Correspondence, Folder 20, formerly 136. 1912-06-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I received your note with the proposed new racing rules and thank you very much for sending it to me.
Is this a cut and dried schedule of the rules to be passed? If so I am disappointed for I expected some changes from the present ones that would improve and simplify them.
I hope I will not offend you or anyone who may have had a hand in drawing up the changes but I want to criticize them a little, and trust it may be of some use.
To begin. I cannot see the slightest need in defining notches, jogs, curves or angles any more than in the present rules which is well drawn up and covers any case. This change is probably suggested by the unwarranted attack on JOYANT [#709s] last year. JOYANT has long over hangs which should be ruled against. They were made so by request, not that I approved of them. JOYANT has proved a good boat and is liked by those who have sailed in her, nevertheless I am convinced she would be better in every way, and faster, had the ends been or normal length.
I have applied a straight edge as directed[?] to JOYANT's model and find there is [next three words underlined] absolutely no hollow at the points of quarter beam measurement and only very slight (about 1/2of one percent) hollow at the forward end of l.w.l.
[Next sentence crossed out:] But what is the sense in haggling about hollow lines any way, or any penalizing in form, as long as there are not notches or jogs out[?] for the evident purpose of evading some rule. A simple and sensable[sic] is needed to limit overhangs.
Why not do it directly instead of this proposed limit restriction.
I see lug foresails are not ruled against.
Don't you think it would be well to allow the schooner wants to carry a lug foresail them[?] or[?] for[?] extrem[?] men who carry life insurance polices covering damages from handling the lug foresail.
Certainly, if lug foresails were vetoed, it would be as fair for one as another, or if the love for the lug foresail is so great that the schooner men could not sail without it, just measure the area aft the end of fore boom and add it to the sail area.
Why has the gaff to be 'laying on top of the boom' when being measured?
Assuming the diagonal in mainsail at 96% of the maximum is better than the present method and I approve of it.
In measuring P the perpendicular along aft side of foremast. Why not measure to the upper side of fore boom instead of a distance above deck same as used on main mast?
Every new water line measurement should have a corresponding displacement determine[?] .
I do not see the wisdom in limiting displacement. Big displacement yachts are always the best and most wholesome type. As far as my observation goes the divisor cube-rt(D) is working out perfectly. Under equally good handling the P class boats of different displacement came out alike.
I am not convinced JOYANT is any faster than CARA MIA [#687s ex-NAULAKHA] or CORINTHIAN [#708s] due to the large displacement.
I hope you will look over carefully the suggested changes in the rules I have sent to Mr Cormack for I think there are some things that would be of real value." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Duncan, W. Butler. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_75770. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F17, formerly MRDE15. 1912-09-08.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled cost estimates and cost calculations titled 'P Class' and showing contract price, 'cost of material & labor record', '+ 25% [for shop overhead]', '+15% [for profit]', '+ 20% increase 1916' with subtotals and grand totals for #687s NAULAHKA, #708s CORINTHIAN and #709s JOYANT. " (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01020. Folder [no #]. No date (1916 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table titled 'P Class' with data for OA, WL, Beam, Breadth at wl, Draft, Displacement, cube-root(D), Sail area, sqrt (S), Rating, wetted surface, S/WS, cube-root([blank]) / wl for #670s SENECA, #687s CARA MIA, #708s CORINTHIAN, #709s JOYANT, NAHMA ([designed by Addison G.] Hanan [and built by B.F. Wood in 1916]) and 'Proposed' [design]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01190. Folder [no #]. No date (1916 or later ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan sketch of two superimposed yachts with two different rigs (gaff and marconi). With calculations comparing 'P class' (LWL 34ft, LOA 54ft, displ. 390cuft [= 24960lbs], sail area = 1365sqft) and 'NYYC 30 [#626s class] = 1000lbs[?]' (LWL about 30ft 8in, QBL about 30.7ft, L about 31.0ft, displacement 291cuft [= 18624lbs], sail area 1340sqft and 1300sqft). With note 'CARA MIA [#687s ex-NAULAKHA] 3.60, CORINTHIAN [#708s] 3.80, JOYANT [#709s] 3.74'. On verso of an envelope to NGH in Bristol postmarked January 27, 1916." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01220. Folder [no #]. No date (1916-01-27 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] displacement curves of NUTMEG II and #687s CARA MIA; incl reply" (Source: Royal Canadian YC (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_06130. Correspondence, Folder 21, formerly 141. 1921-05-23.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table showing LOA, LWL, Beam, Draft, QBL, Stem, [symbol], sft[?] and Displ[acement] for KATOURA [#722s], WESTWARD [#692s], VAGRANT, QUEEN MAB [#698s], CONSTITUTION [#551s], RESOLUTE [#725s], WINSOME [#664s], 2nd IROLITA [#658s], DORIS [#625s], AVENGER [#666s], 50 Footers [#711s], ADVENTURESS [#685s], IROLITA [#591s], FLYING CLOUD [#703s], BELISARIUS [#1266s], NEITH [#665s], AZOR [#578s], NAULAKHA [#687s], SENECA [#670s], NY30s [#626s], SENTA [#688s], DOROTHY Q [#668s], FLIGHT [#607s], PLEASURE [#907s], QUAKERESS [#676s], KILDEE [#460s], and the 12 1/2ft Class [#744s]. With formulas for mean length L, Draft limit by rule and freeboard at three positions. Undated, on verso of NYYC invitation dated December 11, 1933 but listing of BELISARIUS which was built in 1934/1935 indicates that this was written at that time or later. Filed close to and possibly related to what appears to be an early version of NGH's 'Observations on the Proportions of Sailing Yachts' from July 1936." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Tabulated Dimensions. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_03040. Folder [no #]. No date (1936-07 ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #687s Naulakha even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Naulakha (HMCo-made index card)
• Naulahka (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: Naulakha
Type: J & M
Length: 33'
Owner: Macdonough, J. M.

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

• Naulakha
• Cara Mia ex-Naulakha
• 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: Naulahka
Type: 32' sloop "P" boat
Owner: J. M. MacDonough
Year: 1909
Row No.: 462

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: 1
Year: 1909
E/P/S: S
No.: 0687
Name: Naulahka
LW: 33'
B: 10' 1"
D: 7'.5"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 5700.00
Notes Constr. Record: P Class L.I.S.R.A. Name Changed to "Cara Mia".
Last Name: MacDonough
First Name: J. M.

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.

"Universal Rule Class P." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 7, 2009.)

"LOA from Lloyd's Register 1917." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 25, 2010.)

"Built in 102 days (contract to delivered; equivalent to $56/day, 213 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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