HMCo #692s Westward

"[1909-09-10] Fri 10: Fired up [Stanley steam car], intending going to Newport, but Mr. Cochran [who would soon order #692s Westward] arrived here after starting. ...
[1909-12-23] Thu 23: Began setting up frames on #692 schooner [Westward].
[1910-01-03] Mon 3: Calm & overcast [with] l[igh]t S [wind in AM]. Mr. Cochran here to watch[?] his new schooner [#692s Westward]. Began plating. 2 garboard plates in place.
[1910-01-07] Fri 7: Twelve plates on outside of 692 [Westward]. Sternpost not yet up but began on fitting cabin sole stringer plates.
[1910-01-08] Sat 8: Sternpost up on 692 [Westward] and all frames forward.
[1910-01-16] Sun 16: Very fine & clear. There are 32 outside plates & 16 stringer plates on #692 [Westward], with riveting well advanced. About 3/10 plated in 2 weeks.
[1910-01-23] Sun 23: Very fine. Snow all gone. 50 outside plates on #692 [Westward] and 23 stringer plates. [Total] 73.
[1910-01-30] Sun 30: #692 [Westward] has all stringer plates & angles in place on deck & cabin sole, and partly riveted. There are 65 outside plates in place of the 108 in total, and about 3/4 riveted.
[1910-02-06] Sun 6: Cold NW gale. ... 17 outside plates have been added to #692 [Westward] this week.
[1910-02-22] Tue 22: Deck metal work on 692 [Westward] ready for laying deck.
[1910-02-25] Fri 25: 692 [Westward] outside plating completed except some riveting around gunwale bars. ...
[1910-02-28] Mon 28: 692 [Westward] --- most of inside partitions are in boat & being erected. Laying of deck [is] underway.
[1910-03-11] Fri 11: Fine. ... Received sticks for mainmasts of Westward & Ingomar. Were over 4 months coming over from Oregon. ...
[1910-03-12] Sat 12: ... Re[ceive]d rudder for 692. Deck all laid on 692 [Westward].
[1910-03-16] Wed 16: ... Mr. Cochran here in PM with Capt. Barr [owner and captain of #692s Westward].
[1910-03-17] Thu 17: L[igh]t snow storm. Mr. Cochran & Barr [owner and captain of #692s Westward] left at noon for NY.
[1910-03-23] Wed 23: Mr. Cochran & Capt. Barr [owner and captain of #692s Westward] here.
[1910-03-31] Thu 31: Fair & cooler. Launched No. 692, Westward, at 11:10AM. Very successful. Christened by Mrs. Beckman. Many spectators. Stepped both masts in afternoon.
[1910-04-08] Fri 8: Rain & NW wind. Cool. Low overcast. Bend sails on Westward [#692s].
[1910-04-10] Sun 10: Made trial of Westward [#692s] in hard NW breeze. Very stiff and satisfactory, but too much wind to try light sails.
[1910-04-14] Thu 14: Westward [#692s] is turned over to Mr. Cochran, one day ahead of contract. ...
[1910-04-21] Thu 21: ... Westward [#692s] left dock and adjusted compasses.
[1910-04-23] Sat 23: Westward [#692s] sailed for Southampton at 3:20 PM. John & Agnes & I went in her to Sandy Pt. [1.5 miles north of Block Island] & return[ed] in [the yard workboat #234p] Friday. S & SE wind.
[1910-05-08] Sun 8: Westward [692s] arrived this AM in Southampton after a voyage of 14-1/2 days. ...
[1911-01-23] Mon 23: Capt. Charles Barr of Westward [692s] died (?) of heart trouble in Southampton, Eng[land].
[1911-05-03] Wed 3: Cold and very strong NW [wind]. Mr. Cochran here in PM and is to have Westward [692s] brought over from England.
[1911-06-10] Sat 10: Westward [692s] arrived from Southampton. Passage [took] 18 d[ays] 20 h[ours]. ...
[1911-07-19] Wed 19: Off in Roamer to Newport on short cruise. Went down [the] bay in company of Westward [692s].
[1926-03-22] Mon 22: ... At work helping Com M[unroe] on cradle. Also send off letter to Tom Brightman about changing lead in [#692s] Westward, information to be sent to Mr. Davis, her owner.
[1931-01-03] Sat 3: ... At work on top for wood box and a proposed new sailplan for the sch[ooner] yacht Westward [#692s]. [See HMM acc. no. #2004.0001.312; Sail plan w/ scale. In ink: 'Westward'. Copy of sketch sent T. B. F. Davis, Esq. showing new rig proposed by Nathl. G. Herreshoff. Jan. 1931.' Pencil calculations of sail area.; Ink Drawing, NGH (1931-01) and #2004.0001.337; Profile & sail plan. No. 692. In ink: 'Westward' showing original rig.' On verso: 'Photostat of Westward's Rig as of 1910. Scale 3/32' per ft. Rec'd from HMCo. Jan'y 1931'; Photostat, HMCo (1909-09).]
[1931-01-04] Sun 4: ... At work on new sailplan for Westward [#692s].
[1931-01-06] Tue 6: ... At work on Westward [#692s] sail plan.
[1931-01-12] Mon 12: ... Sent off letter to T. B. F. Davis and sketch for new rig for Westward [#692s].
[1931-02-23] Mon 23: ... Mr. & Mrs. [T.B.F.] Davis [owners of #692s Westward] called in afternoon [in Coconut Grove, FL]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1909 to 1911, 1926 to 1931. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Sept[ember] 1909.
No. 692 [#692s].
Class B steel schooner.
Frame spaces 10 1/2".
Allow 1/4 on frames and on deck beams for plating & stringers.
Height marked R is under side of rail.
Height marked S is under side of wood deck.
Top of lead at [frame] # 34 is 7.0.0 up.
Top of lead at [frame] # 54 is 4.0.0 up.
No. 706 [#706s]. Dec[ember] 1910.
Changes are marked in ink.
Top of lead at [frame] # 34 is 7.8.0 up.
Top of lead at [frame] # 54 is 4.8.0 up." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in pencil and ink) notes in Offset Booklet HH.4.168.] September 1909 and December 1910. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"... Westward [Name], 692 [Building Number], [Rating], 96 [Waterline], 86.86 [L = length at 1/4 beam as for Universal Rule], 25.42 [B = breadth of waterline as for Universal Rule], 16.95 [d = draft of water as for Universal Rule], 7,310 [D = displacement in cubic foot as for Universal Rule (= 467,840 lbs or 208.9 long tons)], 12612 [Sail Area], [Sail limit Present rule], [Diff.], 13550 [Sail limit Proposed rule], [Diff.]" (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.)

"N. G. Herreshoff Coconut Grove Miami, Florida Dec 8th 1929. {1929/12/08} Dear Francis, ... I thank you for the fine photo of "Westward", which I am glad to have, and will frame it. ... In looking at Westward's photo with glass, I cannot reconise any one on board, and it certainly is not Charlie Barr at the Wheel. I donot think Westward had any but our sails the first year, but do you know if lug foresails are allowed in England in recent years? She did not have one when she was new, and I well recollect the difficulties we had with it on the trial trip, in a very stiff nor'wester. The trial was made in a windy day in early April, and when, after beating out around Middle-ground buoy, and we started sheets to go out by Popasquash Pt. she was going same! When passing between Usher's Rocks and the Beacon, she was feeling the bottom in 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 fathoms, and carried a great breaking sea all over Usher's Rocks and also Castle Island. ... - Your affect - Father. " (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 5: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"Sept. 24 1934. {1934/09/24} N. G. HERRESHOFF BRISTOL, R. I. Dear Francis ... A few days ago I had a [p2] letter from Mr. Davis, owner of Westward, acompanied by a photo, of Westward winning the Kings Cup, a fine picture. She also won another race against the J class yachts in a light wind and considerable windward work. ...Your affect - Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 10: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"In 1910, the fine schooner WESTWARD was built for A. S. Cochran to race abroad. She is ninety-six feet waterline, all steel to Lloyds rules, and proved most successful. She was commanded by Charles Barr (his last before he died) and made quite a "clean sweep" in British and German waters. Her trial trip in early April is something I have to remember. ... In 1911, the fine forty-four feet waterline cruising sloop FLYING CLOUD was built for the Grinnell brothers and the ninety-six feet waterline keel and centerboard schooner ELENA for Mr. Plant. She was intended to be an improvement on WESTWARD for racing and WESTWARD was brought home to sail with her. ELENA appeared to be faster to windward, but if Charlie Barr had lived and sailed on her [WESTWARD], there would have been some close racing." (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. 71.)

"The 'Westward' was the most important of Captain Nat's yachts to come out in 1910, and she came to be built as follows. Alexander S. Cochran had owned the famous sloop 'Avenger' in 1909, when Charlie Barr was her captain. Although Mr. Cochran had not been a very enthusiastic yachtsman, after winning the Astor Cup that year and listening to the stories Charlie Barr told of racing 'Ingomar' abroad a few years before, he decided to have a schooner that could make the crossing and make a good showing when she got there. So he asked Captain Barr how it could be arranged and Captain Barr told him, 'All you will have to do is run up to Bristol and tell N. G. Herreshoff you want a yacht for that purpose and be sure not to tell him how to design her for if you do he probably will not take the order. You may have to show him some credentials for he doesn't like to design a large yacht unless he thinks the owner can afford it.'
So one day late in the summer of 1909 Mr. Cochran ran up to Bristol in his steam yacht and called on Captain Nat. He must have furnished good credentials for Captain Nat started at once on the design of a ninety-six foot water-line steel schooner for him, and she was at the time the largest sailboat the Herreshoff Company had made. She was named 'Westward' and came out early in the season of 1910, with general dimensions of: L.O.A., one hundred and thirty-six feet; L.W.L., ninety-six feet; beam, twenty-six feet eight inches; draft, seventeen feet. She was modeled somewhat to fit the measurement rules then in use in Europe which, among other things, took in a girth measurement so that 'Westward' had some drag to her keel and the lead was rounded off to make her girth less. 'Westward' also was partly built to Lloyd's rules for construction although Lloyd's inspectors did make some concessions to the improved constructions that Captain Nat had developed, including an improved layout of rivets that weakened the plating less.
... 'Westward' did not make a remarkably fast crossing for she had unsuitable weather with head winds, etc., but after reaching the other side she proved to be remarkably fast and was undoubtedly the most successful foreign yacht that had ever raced in England and Germany.
As I write this I have before me a letter from Captain Barr to Captain Nat written aboard the 'Westward' on July 16, at the middle of the racing season, in which he says among other things; 'She is a splendid boat. Crossed over with some rather rough weather and got no water on deck, and practically on an even keel. She has not shown the least sign of strain and made no creaking inside, which I think is a rare thing in a boat crossing the Atlantic. She has started nine times and won eight without time allowance and one with the time allowance.'
... Mr. Cochran and Captain Barr had a wonderful time beating all the largest yachts in Europe ...
The 'Westward' was to live a long time ... and have an interesting history. In the spring of 1911 she was brought back to this country ... In the seasons of 1911 'Westward' raced against the new schooner 'Elena,' ... and 'Westward' won the Astor Cup of that year. In about 1912 or 1913 she was sold to German owners, and while in Germany had some quite heavy and elaborate cabin work put into her, including a grand piano. The German designer, Max Ortz, had designed a German-built schooner that was very much a copy of 'Westward' but larger, and there probably would have been some hot racing in the large schooner class in Germany if the war had not started in 1914. 'Westward' was in England in August of that year, probably for Cowes Race Week, and at the very sudden commencement of the war was laid up in England where she was later seized by the English. In later years she was owned by T. B. Davis who made his home port the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey where 'Westward' was annually stored and overhauled including the work on her spars, rigging, and sails. Manned with a Channel Islands crew she raced quite regularly, and after 'Britannia' was perhaps the most popular of the large British yachts.
... Mr. Davis was very fond of 'Westward,' and requested that when he died she should be taken to sea and sunk, but the British authorities objected to this waste of material and I do not know her final disposition. However, she was probably the most successful of any American-built yacht that raced in foreign waters, not excepting 'America' and 'Sappho,' for 'Westward' raced successfully for many years against many highly developed yachts. While she is not so well known in this country she probably was one of the greatest racing sailboats of all time." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. The Wizard of Bristol. The Life and Achievements of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, together with An Account of Some of the Yachts he Designed. New York, 1953, p. 276-279.)

"[Westward] was built by the Herreshoff Company and came out early in the season of 1910. She was a good, wholesome yacht built to Lloyd's rule and partly designed to fit the rules of measurement then in force in England and Europe that had girth measurements. After her trial trips she was given shorter gaffs, heavier and smaller sails, and sailed for Europe with her owner aboard. On her crossing they experienced some rather rough weather and head winds, which is usual early in the season, but Westward proved to be a very good sea boat and never took solid water on deck during the crossing. Her general dimensions were LOA 136'; LWL 96'; beam 26' 8"; draft 17'. ...
During the first half of the season Westward won nearly every race quite easily, and proved that no European schooner was a match for her under their International Rule of measurement, so the British officials decided to have her give the other yachts an arbitrary handicap derived from her previous performance, and they increased the handicap so much at the end of the season that she was allowing some of her competitors twice the amount that the difference in measurement called for. While this seems quite unfair, still the International Rule proved many times that it did not rate the larger yachts satisfactorily, so the British large yachts for several years were raced with an arbitrary handicap until they adopted our Universal Rule in 1931 for classes above 14 1/2-meters.
Westward was undoubtedly the fastest schooner in the world in 1910 and Mr. Cochran and Charlie Barr had a great time racing in Germany and England but, unfortunately, the next winter, while she was laid up at Southampton, Captain Barr died suddenly of a heart attack. He was only in the middle of his life and his death was a great shock and surprise to all interested in yachting. ... While Westward was in Germany she had a heavy interior put in her including large brass bedsteads and a grand piano, and so forth, which it is said slowed her up somewhat but Germany at this time was beginning to have capable yacht designers and, with Westward to work from, there was designed and built a larger version of her that could not be told from her in a photograph. This vessel must have been broken up in the war between 1914 and 1918. In 1914, Westward went to England for Cowes week, and at the outbreak of the war was laid up there and subsequently seized by the British government. After the war she was owned by T. B. F. Davis who sailed her with a Channel Island crew. Up to just before World War II Westward could beat all the later British yachts in a good strong beam wind. She became one of the most popular British yachts after Britannia was retired, and as she only spent one year here she is often thought of as being English." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. An Introduction to Yachting. New York, 1963, p. 172-174.)

"The clang of the bell on the shops of the Herreshoff Manufacfturing Company yesterday was a pleasing sound to many, as it was the first time it had been rang to call in the employees in more than two months. The firm has recently received orders for several craft, including a large steel-framed racing schooner [#692s Westward] for A. F. Cochrane, owner of the sloop yacht Avenger [#666s]. The other boats ordered are launches [probably #271p Diana and #272p Launch for St. Y. Iolanda]. Word was sent out Wednesday [September 15, 1909] to all the carpenters and many of the steel workers, formerly employed by the company, that there would be work for them at the shops beginning yesterday. Many of them responded when the bell rang yesterday, though some had secured other work which could not be left at short notice." (Source: Anon. "New Orders at Herreshoffs." Bristol Phoenix, September 17, 1909, p. 2.)

"Boston, Mass., September 28. According to an announcement emanating from the Herreshoff shops, at Bristol, R. I., Captain Charles Barr, the noted Long Island skipper, has been retained by Alexander S. Cochran of the New York Yacht Club to sail, the coming season, a new racing schooner that the Herreshoffs are to build the coming winter for Mr. Cochran. Captain Barr sailed the Avenger [#666s] for Mr. Cochran after the latter purchased the craft from R. W. Emmons of this city, during the season just closed. It has been known for several weeks that the Herreshoffs were shortly to start work upon a new schooner, but not until to-day did it become known that the boat was to be for Mr. Cochran, who is building it largely in the expectation that the new craft will be fast enough to defeat J. Rogers Maxwell's Queen [#657s]. But there is something more than defeat of the Queen ahead of the new boat, for Mr. Cochran has already made his plans to send the craft across the water. If successful upon this side, to meet the best of the foreign racing boats, including the German Emperor's Meteor. The preliminary work of laying down the lines for the boat has already been started in the famous 'south shop' of the Herreshoffs, where nearly all of the cup defenders have been built. Judging from these lines the new craft will be considerably larger than Queen or Elmina, which are 91 feet 6 Inches and 87 feet, respectively, on the water line, and 126 feet and 124 feet over all." (Source: Anon. "Racing Schooner Ordered. Herreshoff Building Big Vessel For Alexander S. Cochran, New York Yacht Club. (Special to the Eagle.)" Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 28, 1909, p. 5.)

"BRISTOL, R I, Oct 30 [1909] --- ... Of the two new racing craft to be built at the Herreshoff shops the coming winter, the schooner for A. S. Cochran will take precedence. The lead mold is completed and the furnaces and receptacles for melting the lead were set up this week. Much of the material for the schooner is assembled." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, October 31, 1909, p. 29.)

"The lead keel for the new schooner yacht for Alexander S. Cochran was successfully cast at the boat shops of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Saturday morning [October 30, 1909]." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, November 2, 1909, p. 2.)

"Work on the two new boats being constructed at the shops of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, is well under way. One, composite sloop [#694s Shimna], is nearly completed, and the other is a steel schooner [#692s Westward] 95 feet on the water line. The frames are practically all up and work on the outside plating is progressing nicely. The two boats will be launched early in the spring." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, January 11, 1910, p. 2.)

"BRISTOL, R I, March 23 [1910] --- The new Herreshoff steel schooner Westward was viewed here today by her owner, Alexander S. Cochran, who expressed himself as very much pleased with the construction and with the lines of the boat. He was accompanied by Capt Charles Barr, who is to be skipper of the new craft this summer, when she will race abroad. Capt Barr was also much pleased with the boat.
While no date has been set for the launching of the craft, it will be within two weeks." (Source: Anon. "Westward Pleases Them. Alexander S Cochran and Capt Barr Look Over New Yacht." Boston Globe, March 24, 1910, p. 4.)

"Christened by Mrs. R. Livingston Beekman, of Providence, R. I., the big schooner yacht Westward, owned by Alexander Smith Cochran, N. Y. Y. C., was launched from the Herreshoff works, in the presence of her owner and a few of his friends on April 4 [1910].
A more quiet and unostentatious baptism of a vessel built under the rating and arbitrary structural conditions ruling with the International Yacht Racing Union of Europe and destined to play an important part in the great races in German and British waters the coming summer cannot be imagined.
Here is an international racing and ocean cruising schooner yacht of the largest class, designed by the deft hands of the world's greatest naval architect, Captain N. G. Herreshoff, and built under Lloyd's highest require ments and the rating rule in force abroad, the first American sailing yacht to be thus constructed and shortly to cross the Atlantic seeking world wide honors, and there were just twelve strangers, including the owner, looking on and wishing the Westward good luck as she went into the water.
The Westward is expected to meet English and German schooners in her initial race at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the River Elbe, on June 18. Then she goes to Kiel, and there is sure to measure speed with the Emperor's Meteor, believed to be a great boat, and others, so there will be royal sport. She was fully described in the Mar. 31 issue of THE NAUTICAL GAZETTE." (Source: Anon. "Launch of the Schooner Westward." Nautical Gazette, April 14, 1910, p. 259.)

"The schooner yacht Westward, which has been building at Herreshoffs for A. S. Cochran, of the New York Y. C, was launched April 30 [sic, i.e. March 31, 1910], and it is expected that she will start on her voyage across the Atlantic about April 20. This yacht has been built in the South shop and is the most important vessel turned out at Bristol since Reliance was built in 1903, and she has grown under the same shed that screened Reliance from public view. Westward has been built to the conditions of the International Yacht Racing Union in force in Europe and will be classed by Lloyds. She is the first vessel built in this country to conform to such conditions and an agent of Lloyds has already inspected the vessel. Mr. Cochran wanted the yacht built of bronze, but Lloyds' requirements do not cover bronze vessels, and so Westward has been built of steel and in the regulation way. She is a staunch and able craft and appears unusually bulky. Her hull is fully plated, the deck is laid, bulkheads are in position and most of the interior work completed. The spars and rigging are ready and the sails have been made. The yacht's dimensions are: 135 feet over all, 96 feet on the waterline, 27 feet 6 inches beam and 17 feet draft. Queen is the only other large schooner turned out by Herreshoff and her dimensions are 126 feet over all, 91.5 feet on the waterline, 24 feet beam and 14 feet 10 inches draft. She was built to conform to the Ameriean rule and has a centerboard. With her board down she draws about 26 feet. Centerboards are not allowed in Europe, and if used are taxed.
The board gives a great advantage which under American rules is not taxed. Without the board Westward proportionately draws more than Queen without the board, but in other respects Westward is not as extreme as Queen. Her overhang, is proportionately shorter than that of Queen and her beam is proportionately less.
Captain Barr, who has been abroad all the winter, has visited the yacht and is now getting his crew and preparing for the voyage across the ocean. The yacht will have a jury rig using her fore and main masts, but not her racing topmasts or bowsprit. The topmasts, main boom, gaffs and bowsprit will be sent abroad on a steamer for Southampton, and there the yacht will fit out as quickly as possible and then tuned up for racing. The masts of the yacht are of Oregon pine and the racing main boom is of steel.
The first race will be sailed at Cuxhayen at the mouth of the Elbe. This will be the regatta of the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein on June 18. There she will probably meet the German Emperor's Meteor IV., Herr Krupp von Bohlen's Germania, the Fife designed schooner Cicely, owned by Cecil Whitaker, and other big yachts. From Cuxhaven Westward is to go to Kiel where she will sail in races for her class. Then she will take part in the race from Kiel to Eckernforde, fifty-one miles, and then back again over the same course. The next race for Westward will be from Kiel around the island of Fehmarn to Travemunde, a distance of seventy-eight miles. There may be some races at Travemunde and then the yacht will prepare for her British campaign. At Cowes the supreme test will be made, and it is possible that in some race there Westward may have to sail against the 23-meter cutters Shamrock, owned by Sir Thomas Lipton; White Heather, owned by Myles B. Kennedy, and Brynhilde, owned by Sir James Pender. These three yachts have been changed during the winter, and among other things have had their sail spreads increased.
Westward will have a crew of about thirty men and Harry Cliff, formerly of Queen [#657s], is to be mate." (Source: Anon. "Westward Nearly Ready." Forest and Stream, April 2, 1910, p. 542.)

"[Abstract of register or enrollment. Pos. 974:]
Westward, schooner yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1910.
197.82 gross tons, 143 net tons; 106 ft. x 26.7 ft. x 17.9 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, two masts, overhanging head [bow].
Enr[olled] and Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) Apr. 7, 1910. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff, Bristol. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Enr[olled] and Lic[ensed] (temporary) ([as] yacht) Apr. 14, 1910 (change of hailing port - New York). Owner: Alex Smith Cochran of New York. Master: Charles Barr.
Surrendered [license] Nov. 29, 1912 at New York. ([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. Westward.)

"The Westward, the new racing schooner built for Alexander S. Cochran, was given its first trial spin Sunday [April 10, 1910] morning. On board were Designer Nat Herreshoff, Alexander S. Cochran and a friend, Capt. Charles Barr, two mates, a boatswain, sailmaker Asa W. Hathaway, Foreman Rufus Murray of the Herreshoff shops, Lloyd's agent, a crew of 30 seamen and four cooks and stewards. The trip, to Newport and return, was made in one hour and forty minutes, averaging about 16 miles an hour, though no actual time was taken with a log. The trial was successful. It is expected that the Westward will leave Bristol April 20 for her ocean trip to Southampton, England." (Source: Anon. "Successful Trial Trip." Bristol Phoenix, April 12, 1910, p. 2.)

"Alexander S. Cochran's new schooner Westward, built by Herreshoff, was tried last Sunday [April 10, 1910] on Narragansett Bay. The yacht, with her owner, builder and Capt. Barr on board, sailed about thirty miles in a fresh northwest wind. She used lower sails only, but made a good showing and pleased all interested. She did well on the wind and appeared to be perfectly balanced.
On Monday the work of preparing the yacht for her voyage across the Atlantic started. The comparatively thin topmasts were lowered, the bowsprit and main boom were unshipped, and these spars, together with her club topsail spars and spinnaker pole, will be shipped with her racing rigging and sails by the steamship St. Paul to Southampton. The yacht will use a small cruising rig for her trip across the ocean.
She will sail with a crew of thirty men on board on April 20, and it is hoped that she will reach Southampton the first week in May, and then speedily be fitted out and tried for her campaign in foreign waters." (Source: Anon. "Trial of Westward." Forest and Stream, April 16, 1910, p. 623.)

"Captain Charles Barr, who sailed Westward in all her races, and in fact every time she has been under sail since she was launched, says that she is the best yacht he has ever handled. Captain Barr sailed Columbia [#499s], Reliance [#605s], Ingomar [#590s], Corona [#435s], Minerva, Navahoe [#429s], Mineola [#529s] and many other famous vessels, and he should know what he is saying. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachting News Notes." Forest and Stream, October 29, 1910, p. 702.)

"Westward was built this year to the order of Mr. Alexander S. Cochran, of New York, by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol (Rhode Island, U.S.A.), to designs by 'Nat' Herreshoff, from whose board also came the designs of such well known vessels as Sonya [#624s], Navahoe [#429s], and Ingomar [#590s], to name only three. Her dimensions are: length (as per Lloyd's), 119 ft. 6 in.; length w.l. 96 ft. ; breadth, 26 ft. 6 in,; depth, 13 ft. 6 in.; her Thames tonnage measurement being 349 tons and sail area 12,000 square feet. She was built to Lloyd's 100A class. Although Westward made the passage across the Western ocean under her own sail shortly alter her launch, and entered the lists at once in the Kiel regattas, her performance was phenomenal. One must go a very long way back in the history of yachting to find any boat approaching her record; indeed, possibly the only one which ever came near her was the schooner America. This fact is the more remarkable when it is remembered that her designer is an American and that Westward is the first boat he has ever attempted under the present International Yacht Racing Union Rules. It is true that Herreshoff has a wonderful insight in designing, and also considerable experience with schooners; but it is entirely without precedent for a boat to gain every possible victory in her first season afloat --- and against competitors of no mean order --- beating them on occasion by considerably over an hour on actual time. Westward was built specially for racing in the 'A' class and under the I.Y.R.U. rating and time allowance scale; and her owner decided not to allow her to compete in events of a different character. On I.Y.R.U. time scale she even had to get time from two boats, but had she raced in events where handicaps were based on observed previous performances she would of necessity had to sail scratch and concede relatively enormous allowances to the other vessels of the class. Another factor, which contributed in some measure to her successful career hitherto was her skipper, Captain 'Charlie' Barr, who also steered Mr. Morton Plant's Ingomar (another Herreshoff schooner) when she raced one most successful season in European waters. Westward's record for the past season in British waters is:
Westward, Mr. A. S. Cochran: 11 Starts; 11 1sts; 0 2nds; 0 3rds; 11 Total
Cicely, Mr. Cecil Whitaker: 7 Starts; 3 1sts; 1 2nds; 0 3rds; 4 Total
Germania, Herr Krupp v. Bohlen u. Halbach: 10 Starts; 0 1sts; 5 2nds; 0 3rds; 5 Total
Hamburg, Kaiserlicher Yacht Club: 6 Starts; 0 1sts; 2 2nds; 2 3rds; 4 Total
Meteor, H.M. the German Emperor: 7 Starts; 0 1sts; 2 2nds; 0 3rds; 2 Total
Susanne, Monsieur M. Verstraete: 4 Starts; 0 1sts; 0 2nds; 0 3rds; 0 Total
These races are, of course, pure class races only. Westward's career compares most marvellously with that of the other 'A' class vessels (the complete record of which appear above) and her record includes such trophies as the German Emperor's Cup and the 600-guinea Gold Cup of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. Her most marvellous performance (possibly the most marvellous performance ever recorded in yachting) was in connection with the race for this latter trophy: light weather prevailed at the time, the race was stopped at the end of the first round, but even then Westward was leading the fleet by just on two hours. One of her remarkable features is that she appears to be a very even performer in all weathers, though possibly scoring more heavily in light winds.
In German waters her performance was no less remarkable, as there, too, she won every purely class race in which she started; once she suffered 'defeat' in a race from Eckernfoerde to Kiel, but on that occasion the handicapping was not according to I.Y.R.U. rating and time scale. The new boat which is to be out next season to race against Westward will have a tough task indeed before her, though one's national amour propre leads one to hope that she will prove a still more successful vessel. Any way, her owner (whoever he may be) is to be congratulated on his pluck and sporting spirit, and British yachting owes him a debt of gratitude for that he has afforded one of our designers an opportunity of showing the world that Britain is still there in the 'A' class, and of proving that we lead afloat in yachting as well as in more serious ways." (Source: Anon. "Westward's Career." The Yachtsman (U.K.), November 10, 1910, p. 248.)

"The racing schooner Westward, owned by Alexander Cochrane of New York, arrived in Bristol Saturday [June 10, 1911], after a difficult passage of nearly 19 days from Southampton, England. She will be given a new racing rig at Herreshoff's, where she was built, and will try to defeat the new racer Elena [#706s] this season. The Elena is now in New London, the home of her owner, Morton F. Plant." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, June 13, 1911, p. 2.)

"America is to lose one of her finest racing yachts, the schooner Westward having been sold by Alexander Smith Cochran, N. Y. Y. C. to a prominent German yachtsman. Tams, Lemoine & Crane are reported to have been the agents in the transaction.
No American built yacht has ever met with greater success in foreign waters than the Westward, which, fresh from the yards of her builders, the Herreshoffs, crossed the Atlantic ocean in the spring of 1910 and made a practically ctean sweep in British and German waters of every race in which she started.
That the Herreshoff creation aroused as much enthusiasm abroad as in this country was shown by an article in the London Sketch at the conclusion of the racing season in British waters. It described the Westward as 'a thing of melody and poetry --- the American 'dream ship,' and the acknowledged 'belle of Cowes.' '
The Westward was designed by the wizard of Rhode Island, Capt. Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, and launched at the Herreshoff yards, Bristol, R. I. on March 31, 1910, the christening being performed by Mrs. R. Livingston Beeckman. On April 23, less than a month later, the Westward, in command of the late Capt. Charlie Barr, at one time a resident of this city, with her owner and Walter P. Paret and a crew of 27 men on board, sailed from Bristol for Southampton, and, despite heavy weather, the schooner, under heavy cruising rig, made the trip in 15 days.
The Westward was raced at Cuxhaven, Kiel, Eckernforde, Travemunde, Cowes and other yachting centres, during which time she defeated the fastest of foreign yachts, including the Meteor, the Hamburg, the Germania, the Nordstern, the Cicely and the Susanna.
At Kiel, on June 26, the Westward won the Jubilee cup, and two days later the Prince Henry and Weydekampf cups. On July 1, at Travemunde, she easily won the Emperor's cup, and two days afterward took a special race, following it up with many more victories In Continental waters. During the Royal Yacht squadron regatta, in August, at Cowes, she won several of the more valuable prizes, after which she went out of commission at Southampton.
She was raced during the New York Yacht club's cruise of last year, and met, among others, Morton P. Plant's Elena, the Enchantress and the Irolita, and won the Alumni association, United States navy challenge and Astor cups.
The Westward was designed and built to conform with the conditions of the International Yacht Racing union, in force abroad, and was classed by Lloyds as the first vessel ever built in this country, under those rules. She is built of steel and much heavier in construction than is customary in yachts of her type designed to comply with American conditions and her dimensions are: Length over all, 135 feet; load water line length, 96 feet; breadth of beam, 27 feet 6 inches, and draught, 17 feet." (Source: Anon. "German Yachtsman Buys the American Dream Ship. Schooner Westward Sold by Her Owner, Alexander S. Cochran, and Will Be Taken Across the Pond. Made Clean Sweep Abroad." New London Day, November 9, 1912, p. 10.)

"BERLIN, June 1 [1913]. --- The racing schooner Westward, now Hamburg II, which was formerly owned by Alexander S. Cochran of New York, was successful in her first race, held yesterday in the North Sea regatta, defeating such boats as the Kaiser's Meteor and Herr von Krupp's Germania.
It was the first race that the American-built yacht had taken part in since she was purchased by a syndicate of yachtsmen, belonging to the Hamburg Yacht Club, and the fact that she enjoyed handicap advantages detracted in nowise from her victory.
Westward was designed and built by the Herreshoffs in Bristol, R. I., in 1910, and almost immediately after she was launched sailed for Europe to take part in the various European regattas. She won all of her races, including the German Emperor's Cup. The American-schooner was coveted by quite a number of foreign yachtsmen, and last Fall Mr. Cochran was tempted by the offer made by German yachtsmen, and let his crack schooner go.
Westward is built of steel, 135 feet 4 inches over all, 96 feet load waterline, 26 feet 8 inches beam, and 16 feet 11 inches draught." (Source: Anon. "Old Westward Wins. Herreshoff Built Schooner Leads in Her First Race as Hamburg II." New York Times, June 2, 1913, p. 5.)

"The famous Herreshoff schooner Westward has been bought from her German owner by an Englishman, who is having her fitted out and intends to race her this season." (Source: Anon. "Yacht Building Yards Very Busy. Many New Vessels at Herreshoffs." Rudder, June 1920, p. 39)

"We notice that this fine schooner is in the sale list and should she find a purchaser who would race her she would make an acceptable addition to our big handicap fleet, as she would be eligible to compete in the class with Britannia. She is a Herreshoff design, built in America in 1910. She came across here and made a good show in the Solent regattas. Then she was lost sight of as far as British racing was concerned, as she was sold to a syndicate of Hamburg yachtsmen, who renamed her Hamburg II.
After the war she was purchased by Mr. Clarence Hatry, who naturally discarded her German name, and in 1921 we saw her racing under her original name in the Solent, with Edward Sycamore at the helm, and her owner also had Mr. J. R. Payne aboard for his races. She had not the luck that such a fine craft so ably handled deserved. She had a slight 'carry-away' one day when racing at Ryde, at a time when she looked like winning, in spite of a big time allowance which she had to concede. In that year she had a vessel of her own rig as one of her competitors, the smart schooner Susanne. We would like to see her at our big regattas during the coming summer." (Source: Anon. "Westward." The Yachtsman (England), January 20, 1923, p. 177.)

"The 338-ton schooner Westward, which was designed by the famous Nat Herreshoff, and built at Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A., in 1910, and last owned by Mr. Clarence Hatry, is reported to have been purchased by Mr. F. B. Davis. We hear that Capt. Sycamore, who this season has been in charge of Mr. Kenneth H. Preston's ex 15-metre cutter Paula III., is to have command of Westward." (Source: Anon. "Westward's New Owner and Skipper." The Yachtsman (England), August 30, 1924, p. 278.)

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"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in ink and) table / design rule titled 'Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule' and signed 'Nath'l G. Herreshoff. Bristol R.I. July 16, 1907'. With formula 'Sailarea not more than C * B * (L * d * D)^.025 in which C = constant depending on rig, as follows: Sloops & Yawls not carrying topsails C=8.75. Full rigged Sloops C=9.8. Full rigged Schooners and Yawls C=9.3. L = length at 1/4 beam as for Universal Rule. B = breadth of waterline as for Universal Rule. d = draft of water as for Universal Rule. D = displacement as for Universal Rule. The following are examples of application of the above formula to some well known yachts designed by the author. Measurements for Universal Rule'. Followed by tabulated data showing Building Number, Rating, Waterline, L, B, d, D, S, Sail limit Present rule, Diff., Sail limit Proposed rule, Diff., and Notes for Buzzards Bay 15 [#503s class], KILDEE [#460s], SIS [#536s], DOROTHY Q [#668s], SENECA [#670s], N.Y.Y.C. 30 [#626s class], NEWPORT 30 [#463s class], ELECTRA [#530s], SPASM [#538s], PLEASURE [#545s], NEITH [#665s], DELIGHT [#679s], GLORIANA [#411s], ALTAIR [#539s], AVENGER [#666s], DORIS [#625s], WINSOME [#664s class], IROLITA II [#658s], YANKEE [#534s], CONSTITUTION [#551s], RELIANCE [#605s], PETREL [#510s], QUEEN [#657s], INGOMAR [#590s], WESTWARD [#692s], AND [KATOURA] [#722s]. [In an article in the March 5, 1905 Boston Globe (p40), N. G. Herreshoff argued that unless there be a stricter limit on sail area in the present Universal Rule, there would be only few cruising yachts racing. This formula is apparently an attempt to address the above issue. See elsewhere for complete spreadsheet transcription.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00080. Folder [no #]. 1907-07-13.)
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"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in ink) rating rule titled 'Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule' and signed 'Nath'l G. Herreshoff. Bristol R.I. July 16, 1907'. With formula 'Sailarea not more than C * B * (L * d * D)^.025 in which C = constant depending on rig, as follows: Sloops & Yawls not carrying topsails C=8.75. Full rigged Sloops C=9.8. Full rigged Schooners and Yawls C=9.3. L = length at 1/4 beam as for Universal Rule. B = breadth of waterline as for Universal Rule. d = draft of water as for Universal Rule. D = displacement as for Universal Rule. The following are examples of application of the above formula to some well known yachts designed by the author. Measurements for Universal Rule'. Followed by tabulated data showing Building Number, Rating, Waterline, L, B, d, D, S, Sail limit Present rule, Diff., Sail limit Proposed rule, Diff., and Notes for Buzzards Bay 15 [#503s class], KILDEE [#460s], SIS [#536s], DOROTHY Q [#668s], SENECA [#670s], N.Y.Y.C. 30 [#626s class], NEWPORT 30 [#463s class], ELECTRA [#530s], SPASM [#538s], PLEASURE [#545s], NEITH [#665s], DELIGHT [#679s], GLORIANA [#411s], ALTAIR [#539s], AVENGER [#666s], DORIS [#625s], WINSOME [#664s class], IROLITA II [#658s], YANKEE [#534s], CONSTITUTION [#551s], RELIANCE [#605s], PETREL [#510s], QUEEN [#657s], INGOMAR [#590s], WESTWARD [#692s], AND [KATOURA] [#722s]. [In an article in the March 5, 1905 Boston Globe (p40), N. G. Herreshoff argued that unless there be a stricter limit on sail area in the present Universal Rule, there would be only few cruising yachts racing. This formula is apparently an attempt to address the above issue. See elsewhere for complete spreadsheet transcription.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Handwritten Rating Rule. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00260. Folder [no #]. 1907-07-16.)
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"[Item Description:] Blueprint table titled 'Formula for Obtaining the Limit of Sail-Area in Yachts when Measured by the Universal Rule' and signed 'Nath'l G. Herreshoff. Bristol R.I. July 16, 1907'. With formula 'Sailarea not more than C * B * (L * d * D)^.025 in which C = constant depending on rig, as follows: Sloops & Yawls not carrying topsails C=8.75. Full rigged Sloops C=9.8. Full rigged Schooners and Yawls C=9.3. L = length at 1/4 beam as for Universal Rule. B = breadth of waterline as for Universal Rule. d = draft of water as for Universal Rule. D = displacement as for Universal Rule. The following are examples of application of the above formula to some well known yachts designed by the author. Measurements for Universal Rule'. Followed by tabulated data showing Building Number, Rating, Waterline, L, B, d, D, S, Sail limit Present rule, Diff., Sail limit Proposed rule, Diff., and Notes for Buzzards Bay 15 [#503s class], KILDEE [#460s], SIS [#536s], DOROTHY Q [#668s], SENECA [#670s], N.Y.Y.C. 30 [#626s class], NEWPORT 30 [#463s class], ELECTRA [#530s], SPASM [#538s], PLEASURE [#545s], NEITH [#665s], DELIGHT [#679s], GLORIANA [#411s], ALTAIR [#539s], AVENGER [#666s], DORIS [#625s], WINSOME [#664s class], IROLITA II [#658s], YANKEE [#534s], CONSTITUTION [#551s], RELIANCE [#605s], PETREL [#510s], QUEEN [#657s], INGOMAR [#590s], WESTWARD [#692s], AND [KATOURA] [#722s]. [In an article in the March 5, 1905 Boston Globe (p40), N. G. Herreshoff argued that unless there be a stricter limit on sail area in the present Universal Rule, there would be only few cruising yachts racing. This formula is apparently an attempt to address the above issue. See elsewhere for complete spreadsheet transcription.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Blueprint Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0169. WRDT08, Folder 16, formerly MRDE06. 1907-07-16.)
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"[Item Description:] Photograph of a schooner yacht under sail identified on verso in pencil as 'GERMANIA 1908' and blindstamped in lower right corner 'Wm. U. Kirk & Sons. Copyright. Photo Cowes, I[sle of] W[ight]. Negative number '3083 penciled on verso. (GERMANIA often raced against #692s WESTWARD and WESTWARD's owner A.S. Cochran repeatedly mentioned her in his letters in 1909 and 1910 to NGH and may even have sent him this photo)." (Source: William U. Kirk & Sons (creator). Photograph. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE14_01970. Folder [no #]. 1908.)
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"[Item Description:] Photograph of a schooner yacht under sail with topsails and spinnaker blindstamped in lower right corner 'Wm. U. Kirk & Sons. Copyright. Photo Cowes, I[sle of] W[ight]. Filed with two other William Kirk photos of GERMANIA of 1908 and 1909 and apparently also showing GERMANIA. (GERMANIA often raced against #692s WESTWARD and WESTWARD's owner A.S. Cochran repeatedly mentioned her in his letters in 1909 and 1910 to NGH and may even have sent him this photo)." (Source: William U. Kirk & Sons (creator). Photograph. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE14_02010. Folder [no #]. 1908 or later.)
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"[Item Description:] Photograph of a schooner yacht under sail identified on verso in pencil as 'GERMANIA 1909' and blindstamped in lower right corner 'Wm. U. Kirk & Sons. Copyright. Photo Cowes, I[sle of] W[ight]. Negative number '3251 penciled on verso. (GERMANIA often raced against #692s WESTWARD and WESTWARD's owner A.S. Cochran repeatedly mentioned her in his letters in 1909 and 1910 to NGH and may even have sent him this photo)." (Source: William U. Kirk & Sons (creator). Photograph. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE14_01990. Folder [no #]. 1909.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketch with midship construction section and pinpricks and dimensions, calculations, and notes titled 'B class schooner. Aug 19, [19]09 WESTWARD' [#692s]. On verso sketched planview and profile of a narrow shallow hull." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. (creator). Penciled Midship Section. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0609. WRDT08, Folder 46. 1909-08-19.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.12137 (146-024). Photostat sailplan and mid-section marked in ink 'WESTWARD [#692s] showing original rig.' On verso 'Photostat of Westward's Rig as of 1910. Scale 3/32in per ft. Rec[eive]d from HMCo. Jan[uar]y 1931'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Photostat Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0337. WRDT08, Folder 19, formerly MRDE09. 1909-09.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled 'B class schooner [#692s WESTWARD]. 5th trial. Sept 6, [19]09. (Nearly finished.)'. With calculations arriving at a total displacement of 7380cuft = 231 tons net or 211 tons gross and rating calculations 'For international Rating'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01290. Folder [no #]. 1909-09-06.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02137 (029-042). Blueprint general arrangement plan with inboard profile titled 'Class B Schooner [#692s WESTWARD]. 135ft o.a. 96ft l.w.l. 27ft Beam. 17ft 1in Dr[aft]' and marked in pencil 'WESTWARD [#692s]'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0133. WRDT08, Folder 12, formerly MRDE02. 1909-09-10.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02137 (029-042). Blueprint general arrangement plan with inboard profile titled 'Class B Schooner [#692s WESTWARD]. 135ft o.a. 96ft l.w.l. 27ft Beam. 17ft 1in Dr[aft]' and marked in pencil 'WESTWARD [#692s]'. This plan is mirrored and unreadable and has been electronically reversed to make it readable." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0148. WRDT08, Folder 13, formerly MRDE02. 1909-09-10.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled '#692 [WESTWARD]. 96ft lwl. Class B schooner. Finished. Sept 12 [19]09. With particulars 'S=12735[sqft]', 'LWL 96[ft], QBL 86ft 10in, B 25ft 9in', rating calculations according to I.Y.R.U. Rules and other calculations arriving at a total displacement of 467500lbs or 208.6 gross tons." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01280. Folder [no #]. 1909-09-12.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.11098 (137-002). Blueprint framing plan showing a planview titled 'Arrangement of Beams, Stringers, Tieplates and Struts for Schooner B Class [#692s WESTWARD]'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0111. WRDT04, Folder O.S. 1, formerly MRDE02. 1909-09-15.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.11097 (137-001). Blueprint framing plan showing an inboard profile titled 'Arrangement of Floors, Frames, etc. for Schooner B Class [#692s WESTWARD]. Sept[ember] 15, 1909'. With penciled deepending of keel marked 'suggestion of increase of outside lead made to TBF Davis March 19, 1926'. On verso a totally unrelated penciled sketch showing two R-boat profiles superimposed, apparently one pointing to left, the other to the right titled 'Model B. Feb[ruary] 1925. GAME COCK [#932s]'. With tabulated data comparing GAME COCK and Model B. The sketch is undated, NGH carved his R-boat Models A to D in October 1920 and designed GAME COCK in February 1925." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0112. WRDT04, Folder O.S. 1, formerly MRDE02. 1909-09-15.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.11099 (137-003). Blueprint construction half-section titled 'Section of Schooner B Class [#692s WESTWARD]. … Sept[ember] 15, 1909'. Marked in ink 'Frame spacing 20in'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0185. WRDT08, Folder 18, formerly MRDE06. 1909-09-15.)
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"[Item Description:] fair prospect of 40ft class started this winter, believe you quoted $12,000 for four boats similar to #685s ADVENTURESS, please write ideas of the class, is it true Cochran is building a 90ft schooner? [this will be #692s WESTWARD], #667s AURORA finished season in glory and I congratulate on topmast which held" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_24210. Correspondence, Folder 71. 1909-09-21.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketch titled 'Squaresail for No 692 [#692s WESTWARD] Sea rig. Not to scale. Order # 5395'. On verso a detailed penciled description of the sail and how to rig it. Undated (job no. 5395 was probably fulfilled in October 1909)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00800. Folder [no #]. No date (1909-10 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Outside lead for No. 692 [#692s WESTWARD]. Scale length 3/8in. Oct[ober] 1st, 1909'. With notes and calculations arriving at required lead for WESTWARD of 158800lbs = 79.4tons. Also with note 'No 706 [#706s ELENA. Top of lead raised 8in higher than 692 and there is to be a centerboard requiring a slot 6in wide and mean length of 15ft 5in and ca.g. 1ft forward of # 44 frame space. The lead to be lowered at forward end of c.b. slot as shown' followed by calculations arriving at required lead for ELENA of 177200lbs = 88.6tons." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03620. Folder [no #]. 1909-10-01.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.11101 (137-005). Blueprint plating plan titled ''#692 [WESTWARD]. Shell plating' and 'Approved N.G. Herreshoff Oct. 7 [1909]' On verso penciled sketch of an anchor." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0145. WRDT08, Folder 13, formerly MRDE02. 1909-10-07.)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.06169 (081-079). Blueprint spar plan for #692s WESTWARD and #706s ELENA." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0096. Blueprint. WRDT08, Folder 9, formerly MRDE02. 1909-10-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] We had a very quick passage [by steamship to England] and a very pleasant one. Since arriving I haven't been able to find out any particular item of news that will help us. I may later and shall let you know if I do.
[Charlie] Barr's address is 10 Blechynden Ler.[?], Southampton W., in case you want to reach him.
I haven't seen him yet but expect to in a day or so.
I hope all is going on as you wish with the [#692s] WESTWARD.
I think that we shall have a good season of interesting sport on her." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31250. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1909-10-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Your letter of 23th past on hand and I was very glad to get it and hear the 'WESTWARD' [#692s] is getting on.
I haven't yet been able to get a very definite information. I expect to meet some of the racing men shortly and am to gather some news.
At present the yachting papers seem full of the America Cup, relative to lei[?] therenas[?] going over to America.
What you discovered about the spars of the German schooners I think us[?] ought to have hollow ones too, so I hope you will go ahead and do what you think the best. If the steel boom seems better, lets have it.
I have heard from [Charlie] Barr but ewl[?] wet[?] as there did not seem anything pressing enough to bring him on.
When I meet fouth[?], the Secretary of lemon[?] W[?] any[?] one here[?] who can give me any information I shall let you know. Wish[?] I were at home almost[?] & follow the progress of our vessel. I had a letter from a German friend who is going to tell the Emperor of our met[?].
He will be keen to have another yacht at Kiel.
We have had some splendid hunting and I have enjoyed it.
With kindest regards and remembrance to your brother, I am ... [date barely decipherable (Nov 2?, 1909), marked by NGH in pencil 'Ans Nov 17 (1909)]." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31190. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1909-11-(02 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled draft letter by NGH on inside of an opened envelope:] When here last week, I had quite a talk with Butler Duncan, about the schooner yacht you propose building [this will become ENCHANTRESS, designed by A. C. Smith and built by Lawley, first raced in 1911]. A death in my family [Florence deWolf, NGH's sister-in-law] has prevented writing you sooner.
The construction of such a craft would be work that we would like to take up and if it could be arranged to begin on it immediately after the construction of the present schooner we are building [#692s WESTWARD] we would be sure to have a set of men that will be well trained to carry on the work in a thoroughly good manner and it would be quite an advantage to you as well as to us over breaking in men that have been working on ordinary ship work.
This yacht for Mr. Cochran will be built to Lloyd's requirements and I suppose your schooner will be also. She is 96 lwl, 135 oa, 26ft 8in beam & 17ft draft. I understand from Butler Duncan that you would not go over 15ft draft and the use you w[ou]ld put her to I think you are quite right,- but of course you could not expect the best results in windward work unless she had more draft or a centerboard.
It is my own opinion it would be better to accept a little loss in speed to windward that to have the trouble and complications a centreboard usually brings about. I also understand from Mr Duncan that you would want to design your cabin arrangements. That would be quite agreeable to us. The only thing necessary would be to lay out the general arrangement before making the plans so that the position of steel bulkheads, web frames & c. would be definite. We propose having the Cochran schooner ready to launch about the 25th on March, and if the work on another vessel is to follow directly the contact should be closed by the middle or latter part of January so the detail drawings could be made and material procured.
This would give you time to inspect the craft[sic] Cochran schooner before closing, as then she would be quite advanced by that time.
If you care to take up the subject with us we could meet you in New York or what w[ou]ld be better here, as you could then see drawings & work on hand." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Iselin, William E. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_12680. Correspondence, Folder 36, formerly 189. 1909-11-05.)
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"[Item Description:] Newspaper clipping from The Telegraph [England], November 7, 1909]: A few weeks ago it was announced that Mr. A. S. Cochran of New York, had placed an order for a schooner [#692s WESTWARD] for the 'A' class with Messrs. Herreshoff and Co., for racing in British and German waters. Up to a few days ago it seemed probable that the only opposition the new craft would meet on this side of the Atlantic would be the existing boats --- Meteor IV., owned by the German Emperor; Germania, Herr von Bohlen und Halbach; and Cicely, Mr. G. Cecil Whitaker --- which provided the schooner-racing during the past season. We hear, however, that Messrs. Fife, of Fairlie, are pushing on with the preparations for laying down a big schooner to meet the new-comer, and rumour has it that she will carry the colours of a well-known British yachtsman. [Apparently sent by A. S. Cochran.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith (sender). Correspondence (newspaper clipping) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31220. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1909-11-07.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am in receipt of your letter of Nov. 5th and wish to offer my sympathy for the loss you have sustained.
Mr. [Butler] Duncan spoke to me about the new schooner [#692s WESTWARD] which he greatly admires, but owing to her excessive draft, she would not answer my purpose. I require a boat which will draw not over 15ft when fully equipped and all stores on boat [this will become ENCHANTRESS, designed by A. C. Smith and built by Lawley, first raced in 1911]. To give one the necessary room, she would have to be 100 ft L.W.L. and about 135 ft over all. Although I would not install auxiliary power the first season, I would require room for a 150 H.P. gasoline engine, besides power to hoist sails and anchors and furnish electric light. I would want also a got water furnace to heat cabin and staterooms.
I object to a boat which would take a big angle of heel and would expect one to carry her sail fully as well as the 'ELMINA', which from my observation, is the stiffest of all the present schooners.
Although preferring a keel boat, I would put up with the slight inconvenience of a centreboard to get good speed to windward.
To carry the weights mentioned including all the necessary plumbing, would require a boat of large displacement and be somewhat of a handicap to speed. All I would expect, would be to get the fastest possible boat which would fulfil my requirements.
I have already had very complete plans made which promise to answer my purpose, and it is only in case I can find others which I think will suit me better that I would feel like adopting them. To enable me to decide, it would be necessary therefore to see the completed drawings, showing the form, displacement, sail plan, etc, but not necessarily the interior arrangements.
Under the circumstances I hesitate asking you to go to the trouble and expense of this work; as, unless it resulted in a boat which would suit my purposes better than the one I have had designed, I would not be inclined to build her." (Source: Iselin, William E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_22640. Correspondence, Folder 67, formerly 135. 1909-11-09.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Penciled telegram notice: Cable[gram] Melton - Nowbray Eng[land]
to Mr. Herreshoff
Schooner being designed by Fife to meet us [#692s WESTWARD] same size.
Sig. Cochran
8:35 a.m. 11-16-09 W U Tel Co" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (telegram notice) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31210. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1909-11-16.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Yesterday, I sent you a cable about the new English schooner to be built to meet our boat [#692s WESTWARD].
I haven't yet found out who has ordered her but I will probably very soon. But I hear she is to be the same size as ours.
Its very nice that enough interest is to be taken in the matter - isn't it?
Today I met Capt. Barr in London. We hadn't much to talk over but I wanted to see him.
He is trying to get you some information about the German schooners --- from all accounts they don't amount to much but this may be a prejudiced English view.
There is nothing in particular I have to tell you. I have learned nothing of importance.
I hope the work is going on satisfactorily. Also that you keep well and happy.. [date barely decipherable (Nov, 1909?), marked by NGH in pencil 'Ans Dec 5 (1909)]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31230. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1909-11-(16 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On ASC-monogrammed Ten East Forty-First Street stationery:] I came home quite suddenly for a two weeks visit and am laid up for a few days with a small operation. I can't get to Bristol till latter part of next week (Friday) or the following Monday (3rd) [January 3, 1910 when indeed Cochran visited Bristol].
Will either of these days be convenient & can we go over in a day the important things so I can return to England until March?
I am quite crazy to see the WESTWARD [#692s]. So is Mr Morgan to hear how she progresses.
I'll be back in March[?] to see her finished up. I don't suppose there is anything I can do now except see her & talk to you. I'll go up night before & stay at Providence and have all day with you.
Every one seems most interested abroad & here in the yacht [sic].
Merry Xmas to you & hope of seeing you very soon. [Undated, marked by NGH in pencil 'ans 24th' which suggests that he answered this letter on December 24, 1909 and that Cochran wrote it circa December 20, 1909.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31810. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. No date (1909-12-20 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On Ten East Forty-First Street stationery with ASC monogram:] I saw Mr Wancor[?] this morning & found him most pleasant & desirous of helping us in every way.
Mr. Buchanan has entire authority to pass plans & we have an appointment for Friday next 24th (?0. If you come donw the plans can be settled then & there Wancor[?] says.
I'll be there too.
I'm going to Newport Saturday & will come over to see you on Monday morning so we can arrange details. I received[?] your letter last night & sending Racing book today. Thursday. [Undated letter. According to the NGH diary Cochran visited NGH in Bristol only once on a Monday, on January 3, 1910 to see #692s WESTWARD under construction. It is thus possible that this letter was written on Thursday Dec 30, 1909.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31590. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. No date (1909-12-30 ???).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On Alex. Smith Cochran, 6 Hudson St., Yonkers, N.Y. stationery:] I can't get on before Monday [January 3, 1910 to see #692s WESTWARD]. Will get there early in the morning as I shall take Sunday night sleeper to Providence.
Expect to go back to England on Thursday if possible. Yours truly...
Thursday. [Undated, marked in ink 'Thursday', indicating that this letter was written on Thursday, December 30, 1909, four days before Cochran's visit in Bristol.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31850. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1909-12-30.)
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"[Item Description:] Post card / trade card from Cape Ann Anchor Works, Gloucester, Mass with a printed artist's rendering of a folding stock anchor with dimensions in ink (5ft 0in wide, 22 1/2in deep, 7ft 1in long). Marked in pencil 'No. 692 [#692s] WESTWARD. 2nd Bower. 3rd Bower'. and '812[lbs] & 868[lbs] Ex Stock'. Undated (the postcard is dated 1908 in print in lower right corner)." (Source: Cape Ann Anchor Works (creator). Trade Card. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_01630. Folder [no #]. No date (ca 1910 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Post card / trade card from Cape Ann Anchor Works, Gloucester, Mass with a printed artist's rendering of a folding stock anchor with dimensions in ink (5ft 6in wide, 2ft 0in7 deep, 7ft 11in long). Marked in pencil 'No. 692 [#692s] WESTWARD. 1st Bower'. and '952[lbs] Ex Stock'. With calculations '952 [+] 238 [=] 1190'. Undated (the postcard is dated 1908 in print in lower right corner)." (Source: Cape Ann Anchor Works (creator). Trade Card. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0256. WRDT04, Folder 23, formerly MRDE08. No date (ca 1910 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] I'm sorry to have to write and tell you that the English schooner is a myth.
Fife has no order to build one and its all a newspaper story.
I was glad to get your letter and hear how much progress is being made [in building #692s WESTWARD].
I met Mr. Chubb in ..." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31270. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. No date (1910-01 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On ASC-monogrammed Ten East Forty-First Street stationery:] I was awfully pleased with my visit yesterday and hate to go off and leave you.
I shall be back early in March. And I will let you hear any news I get etc.
I hope you can push her [#692s WESTWARD] along so we can have time to try rigging etc.
Shall speak to [Charlie] Barr about extra sails.
Thank you again for your kind hospitality and taking so much interest in WESTWARD. Tuesday. [Undated, marked in ink 'Tuesday', indicating that this letter was written on Tuesday, January 4, 1910, a day after Cochran's visit in Bristol.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31830. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. (1910-01-04).)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.06171 (081-081). Blueprint spar plan titled 'Hollow spars' for #692s WESTWARD and #706s ELENA." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0097. WRDT08, Folder 9, formerly MRDE02. 1910-01-14.)
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"[Item Description:] Steering wheel cover plate design including name, hull no, and year for #692s WESTWARD. Including another Steering wheel cover plate design for the same vessel but named WINDWARD [a name which had been initially considered for WESTWARD]." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Steering Wheel Cover Plate Design. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.132. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Steering Wheel Cover Plates. No date (ca1910-01-23).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Your letter telling of progress of WESTWARD [#692s] came.
I was in Ireland a few days and was to have gone to the [E. D.?] Morgans but we missed connections. I'm going to stay with him later, but I sent him your letter as he is much interested.
I hope the delays are not going & make to make us late. We have 2 pretty close connections as it is.
I was duly elected to Royal Thames Yacht Club under whose flag I shall have to race in International classes. --- Also I have heard from Kiel as to probably races we shall get.
I am glad the inspectors were pleased. Also that you like the outside appearance of the boat. Please let me know when you expect (about) to launch her.
I have seen [Charlie] Barr and he will be there as soon as you can use him. Let me know when you think is advisable to have him there. There is nothing new I have heard of braes[?] but I am anxious to see my ship." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31280. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-01-30.)
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"[Item Description:] Newpaper clipping titled 'The A-Class' from an unidentified English paper (sent by A. S. Cochran with letter dated Feb 2, 1910): The only large yacht of real interest that will be seen racing in our waters next season is Mr. Cochran's Herreshoff-designed schooner WESTWARD [#692s], and unfortunately no British-built yacht save the (comparatively) old CICELY will be ready to meet her. That, however, is a small matter for, after all is said (and sailed), Mr. Cochran will make due allowance for Cicely's age. But what he and many others want to know is: What races will be open to the A-class next season in British waters? The German programme has been settled long ago, but as yet no steps have been taken by British clubs to rise to the occasion. This 'occasion' is the first appearance in British waters of any American yacht designed under the European rule of measurement. One might understand the apathy of the British clubs had the American vessel been a yacht of, say, 19-metres measurement, because no yacht of this size exists, as yet, in Europe. In the case of WESTWARD we shall see the best and biggest yacht that Herreshoff can produce to suit our rule, racing with Germany's crack A-class yachts. The matter lies principally in the hands of the leading Solent clubs, and the races arranged for the A-class should, in our opinion, take precedence in the hoped-for International regatta on the Solent this year. It might, for instance, be possible to arrange an ocean A-class race from Heligoland to England." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith (sender). Correspondence (newspaper clipping) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31720. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-02-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Nothing new that I have heard of. [Capt. Charlie] Barr is going over on Wednesday so you will see him shortly. He[?] is to see me on Tuesday.
I thought it well for him to be back as he may be of use to you.
I do hope you will do everything to get her [#692s WESTWARD] out on time. I enclose another clipping.
We shall surely get good racing in German waters.
The weather has cleared up & we are getting good hunting but I mised a lot on account of posts[?] and may stay a little longer for that reason." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31700. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-02-12.)
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"[Item Description:] Interior changes for #698s VAGRANT under construction, hope to receive revised blue print soon, trusting that #692s WESTWARD was successfully launched [WESTWARD was indeed launched on this day]." (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17220. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-03-31.)
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"[Item Description:] interior instructions for #698s VAGRANT under construction, running water like #692s WESTWARD" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17180. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-04-07.)
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"[Item Description:] interior details for #698s VAGRANT under construction, acetylene lighting, had successful trial of #692s WESTWARD today in strong wind" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Vanderbilt, Harold S. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17240. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-04-10.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled dimensioned sailplan sketch titled 'WESTWARD [#692s] Main topmast staysail. Ap[ril] 13 [19]10. Sea rig'. With inked note '# 5482 [Job number]. 4/13/10'. On verso of printed card with speed trap warning by the Automobile Legal Association, dated June 19th, 1909." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sketch. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08530. Folder [no #]. 1910-04-13.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled calculations '692 [#692s WESTWARD. Outside lead. 154028lbs. Amount inside & cinut[?] 6100[lbs]. Ballast before launching 160128[lbs]'. dimensioned sailplan sketch titled 'WESTWARD [#692s] Main topmast staysail. Ap[ril] 13 [19]10. Sea rig'. With inked note '# 5482 [Job number]. 4/13/10'. On verso of printed card with undated speed trap warning in Bridgeport, CT by the Automobile Legal Association." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Calculations. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08550. Folder [no #]. 1910-04-13.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled diagram titled 'Test of chain stoppers on WESTWARD (#692). (Mean compression, 5000lbs per inch.) April 14, 1910' showing inches of compression (from 1in to 5in) on the y-axis and compression (from 2000lbs to 30000lbs) on the x-axis and plotting data for port and starboard stoppers. With note '0 mark is in eye of pull rod. 1 1/2 from end of case when way in. Total compression of spring a little of 5in'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Diagram. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_00170. Folder [no #]. 1910-04-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled formula:] P = Force in pounds.
F = Deflection in in[ch] of one coil under load P.
d = Daim[eter] of wire.
D = Mean dia[meter] of coil.
P = 35.000 * d^3 for round steel.
F = .02333D^2/d for round steel.
Springs [spiral sketch] [Untitled, no further notes, possibly related to chain stoppers as used and tested on #692s WESTWARD or #706s ELENA. Undated, WESTWARD's chain stoppers were tested April 14, 1910.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Calculations. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_00490. Folder [no #]. No date (1910-04-14 or later ???).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled note with tabulated data titled 'Test of 2nd Chain Stopper [for] #692 [WESTWARD]'. On verso additional penciled calculations. On verso of printed card with speed trap warning by the Automobile Legal Association, dated June 24th, 1909. Undated, compare with diagram titled 'Test of chain stoppers on WESTWARD (#692). … April 14, 1910'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Note. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08610. Folder [no #]. No date (1910-04-14 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] please send estimate for sails for #667s AURORA, regret I could not see #692s WESTWARD" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_24230. Correspondence, Folder 71. 1910-04-23.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I was so glad to get your letter of April 26th with your kind remarks about Elizabeth, and I am taking it home tonight to show it to her. I tried in every possible way to a way of seeing the WESTWARD [#692s] before she sailed --- in fact I carried a timetable to Bristol, via Providence, in my pocket up to last Sunday, but I have been so busy since my return from Europe that I have been unable to find a way.
I should like very much to stop on my way to Boston sometime and see the new boats, but as I am off for Mexico next week I am afraid that they will be gone before my return.
I cannot tell you how I shocked I was to read your paragraph about Mr. Wolf, and I can thoroughly understand and appreciate the vacancy left in your family.
Remember me most kindly to the children. All my family would join me if they knew I was writing. Believe me to be, always, ..." (Source: Morgan, E.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_38630. Correspondence, Folder 76, formerly 62. 1910-04-27.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On #692s WESTWARD stationery, written at the end of her first Atlantic crossing from Bristol to Southampton:] As we are almost within 100 miles of Scilly Islands I'm sending this here[?] just to let you know how we got along.
We had to take a very northern course & had close reaching all the first half of the way across[?].
The WESTWARD is a 'clicker'. All hands are in love with her. We had no heavy seas to buck into but heavy gale & seas the last two days dead aft. She never shipped a sea. We had the square fore sail on her & it looked at times as though we should heave to.
[Charlie] Barr says she was much steadier than ATLANTIC under the same conditions & just as fast.
I really have enjoyed every minute & feel splendidly and am perfectly delighted with the ship.
Some of your rigging is a little light for sea purposes but we have had no real difficulties. Two top-sail sheets (wire) gouz[?] way & main sheet was too light.
Expect to pass Scilly Isle tonight if this wind holds which makes a good showing doesn't it.
I hope you are feeling better & taking care of yourself.
Kindest regards to you and also to your brother. ... I enclose about a log which may interest you. [Including penciled note with log of daily runs from April 24, 1910 until the May 6, 1910.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31540. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-05-06.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled (telegram?) note 'South H[ampton]. WESTWARD [#692s] behaves splendidly all pleased and well. Mr Cochran.' Undated, ca May 25, 1910?" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (note) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31670. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. No date (ca1910-05-25 ??).)
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"[Item Description:] Telegram: To Cochran. Southampton. Do not lighten until after thorough trial [of #692s WESTWARD]. Herreshoff." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Telegram to Cochran, Alexander Smith. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31680. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-05-26.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled cablegram notice from #692s WESTWARD:] Southampton [to] Herreshoff, Bristol.
In measuring for rating the water line length comes 97 ft 2 1/2 inches. What would you advise. Cable immediately care [of] Paynes. Southampton. Cochran. 10:07 a.m. W U Tel Co. 5/26/10 " (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (cablegram notice) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31690. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-05-26.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled cablegram notice from #692s WESTWARD:] Southampton [to] Herreshoff, Bristol.
Thanks agree short trial satisfactory mast stands better rating 28.584. Cochran. Cable 2:00 p.m. 5/27/10 W U Tel Co." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (cablegram notice) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31610. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-05-27.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On South Western Hotel, Southampton stationery:] I hated to cable you the other day but it seemed wise even at the risk of hurrying you.
You see we got to Portland [with #692s WESTWARD] having arranged we thought to measure of a good trial.
When we got there we heard from Germany that we had to have rating in with Entry that the English R U clause wouldn't or didn't apply there, that they were going to hold us strictly to rules especially the Germania[sic]. So back we came Wednesday & docked & measured Thursday & sent rating on by first[?] & wire & had all hands working. The English people helped us all they could.
Well, she went very well and seemed very stiff so Barr wanted to cable you & we had so little time. I felt as you did. The boat might have been tender if we had taken out lead & we need all our sails against the big German boats. So its all well.
The measuring is a crude affair & it works[?] out 28.584 as I cabled you. I can't remember your rating but think this is not far off.
I am sure the measurer placed the marks high enough as he races[?] against us so we shall probably have no protest[?].
We had stripped as far down as we dared.
We are painting while in dock for the bottom seemed in perfect condition almost except[?] of course top-sides.
The lead got quite a knock on the rocks, we have straightened it.
The mast we took up another much[?] to strut[?] rear[?] take mors[?] perhaps.
It stood better than we feared[?] & will go I think.
Some of the sails will need cutting.
We are away for Portland today. We had good strong breezes two days.
Hoping you are better, I am... Incl. envelope from the South Western Hotel, Southampton, postmarked May 28 [19]10 with penciled note on verso: C. Oliver Iselin 2nd. Moricihan[?] Club. Cambridge. Staysail to be ready 18th an N. London." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31620. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-05-28.)
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"[Item Description:] Newspaper clipping from an unidentified and undated paper (probably from England), titled 'Yachting Notes': The schooner yacht WESTWARD [#692s], Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran, N.Y.Y.C., now in foreign waters, 'comes out of the international rule at 28.584 metres, says the Yachting World, June 9 [1910]. 'Her rig allowance brings the rating down to 25.25 metres, This will mean that the German schooner GERMANIA, which she will meet, will have to allow her 11 seconds a mile.'" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith (sender). Correspondence (newspaper clipping) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31600. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. No date (after 1910-06-09).)
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"[Item Description:] [Cablegram from Cuxhaven, Germany:] Won first race easily. WESTWARD [#692s] did well. Stery[sic, i.e. very] pleased." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31860. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1910-06-21.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On #692s WESTWARD stationery:] The exciting moment came at last when W[estward] faced METEOR, GERMANIA and HAMBURG. The course 15 miles upstream with a strong tide with us. There was a fair breeze and a dead beat up. [Charlie] Barr got of first and in five minutes we were clear of the bunch. We rounded 15 minutes ahead. They were all close together. The wind died out coming back but we crossed line 30 minutes to the good.
She seemed to answer to light breezes well and is plainly[?] stiff. We almost think we can take out lead. We did take out one ton in the bow.
METEOR & GERMANIA anchor chains are 1/16 inch smaller than ours. I don't know why.
They were much surprised I think at our performance. It isn't conclusive but looks like we would give a good account of ourselves. I think Barr is quite satisfied.
Of course reaching in strong wind is what we fear. We can beat them I think every other point.
English schooner CICELY is here. There is a race tomorrow and Sunday.
With best wishes and my warmest congratulations & tanks to you I am ... [P.S.] I hope you got my cable after race." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31790. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1910-06-23.)
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"[Item Description:] Cablegram from Kiel: Triangular course today two thirds reaching one third dead beat very strong breeze finished first by minute three quarters [#692s WESTWARD race report], incl. envelope" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31420. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-06-26.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled (telegram?) note titled 'Emperor William Cup July 1 - 1910, Course 77 knots, no time allowance' and providing times for #692s WESTWARD winning over GERMANIA, HAMBURG, and NORDSTERN, METEOR having withdrawn & towed in." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (note) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31660. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-07-01.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On #692s WESTWARD stationery:] Travemunde. I have been meaning to write you but have been very busy.
Well, we have had since I last wrote you of the greatest races I ever expect to have and three we came in first boat and the handicap, in which they made us give METEOR 10 min, GERMANIA 7 we won easily, on allowance finishing third boat.
They were all sailed in very hard weather.
The last 80 miles was all running and reaching in heavy wind just what they had wanted.
The WESTWARD is a cooker and Barr has handled her beautifully. He gets away first every time and uses great judgment.
They are quite astonished of course and don't know what to make of it. The Emperor has shown much interest but has not been aboard yet though I have been to the Hoellvlern[?, HOHENZOLLERN?]. We have nine or ten huge silver cups, in fact almost all the prizes.
The mainsail is so much stretched we have no chance to get it up & out but there are only three more races here. Then no more before Cowes I am afraid. The gear has all stood though there has been a frightful strain on it. If we[?] ever build again be sure to have things strong enough for these heavy winds.
There is much I could write about but the boat is waiting to post this. Hope you are feeling better. .. Hope you got my cables. Incl. envelope." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31300. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-07-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] You must excuse me not having written to you for quite a while but I have had so many things to annoy[?] me besides the continued derangement of Alice's brain!
I have also been ill in bed with my bronchitis. We have also had my eldest daughter + husband from Minnesota making us a visit. They have gone to Finland to visit her husband's family + coming back this way to stay here a while before they return to America by the next September.
I must congratulate you for great success of the WESTWARD [#692s] altho' I was not surprised after their race across the ocean with head winds, when I remember crossing in 15 days in a steamer!
I suppose you will soon have time to look thro' the Holtzapffel books which I am sure will interest you very much. I advice you to get 'possibilities of small lathes' by James Lukin, B.A. author of 'The Lathe & Its Uses' and 'simple decorative lathe work' [by?] Guilbert Pitman, 85 Fleet str, London E.C. 1905, in which you will find the best directions for constructing yourself an eccentric chuck. I have made 3 but only the 3rd one is being the most perfect because I followed Lukin's directions with my own improvement that is I made the poosn[?] the back piece[?] that screws on the nose[?] of the lathe profile [sketch] instead of [sketch] leaving th necessary space for the long screw and [sketch] piece fastener at the top of the back of the sliding plate instead of digging out a recess for the same. I have also a work by J.H. Evans on ornamental turning, in 3 vols with numerous illustrations and pretends 'instructions for constructing the various apparatus' --- but I do not find them so easy or clear --- also peek[?] by Guilbert Pitman 86,87 Fleet str, London E.C. 1904.
All these books are about 1/4 each.
...
I have been twice to the great Exposition here + have been surprised as the extent of the buildings just put up for the occasion + I hear they are all to be torn down after the fair is closed which will probably be next October or beginning of November. So far it has been quite a success. Brown & Sharpe of Prov. have quite a stand there and make a very respectable show with their fine machines and fine tools.
A few days ago I was looking over one of old ac[coun]t books trying to find what I had p[ai]d[?] for certain things I bought long ago + I came across an entry --- to money sent to John Herreshoff, April 1860, $15.00 = makes me feel as if I gave him a start in his brilliant career. I could not help having a good laugh over it. It was settled when I bought the sail boat [#187803es MINNEHAHA ex-SABRINA].
As to the swimming fixtures I find that they must be made differently and not under shoes but with a water proof material that flaps together when pushing and falls together as you draw your knees up towards the chest. [Sketch]. I have not yet made a pair to suit but hope to some day.
Best regards... [Incl. envelope from 70 rue Gerard, Etterbeek, Belgium with postmark which may be dated Juillet 18, 10.]" (Source: de Marini, (Dr.) George C. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_15350. Correspondence, Folder 42, formerly 204. No date (1910-07-18 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On #692s WESTWARD stationery, marked Southampton:] It was nice to get your letter. I think you had most of the reports of our races. It was bully. We had nine races and finished first boat every time. Except the handicap [race? Lande Cup?] when we were run into at the start but had no damage except in getting off. Even then we won the prize for all classes, with time allowance!
Twelve cups was the result. Huge ones some of them[.] A cabin full.
We get a few more races. On Monday with the cutters.
Then I lay her up here.
Now[?] I've[?] had the experience and the amusement of this season but I don't want to race her any more. Its too frieding[?] on me. I enjoyed the preparations[?] and the cruising just[?] more than the racing.
So the question is shall I sell her and get a cruiser or shall I keep her as a cruiser absolutely, so that i can't[?] be made to race her.
What I think I should like to do is to make her really a cruising boat inside that is that is plank her up inside heavy partitions[?] luxury & comfort. That means taking out lead and the weight would be higher.
Then have a rig to be handled by as few men as practical, not more than 12 sailors.
Now[?] is your cruising rig you gave[?] me the best for this or can you send me a design for one more practical[?] for ocean & real cruising. Is her draught low[?] enough[?] for such a boat? She is a beautiful sea-boat I think. I don't want to be made to feel I meant[?] race[?] QUEEN[#657s?]. I really want her purely as a cruiser.
So please let me hear all answer about the rig & idea as to advisability.
There wouldn't be any racing home anyway for this size boat except perhaps two or three with ELMINA & QUEEN [#657s]. Not worthwhile & I'd rather race a small boat there if[?] I care[?] for it.
With kindest tegligt[?] & hoping for an answer soon I am ...
P.S. Another reason I want to make a cruiser and a small rig is that I want to handle her as much myself as I can and have[?] my sailing master a moderate man so I can have the responsibility some & the glee[?].
I feel as though we should shorten masts & have bigger topmasts than the ocean rig we had. I don't mind spoiling the masts for racing for if I want to race again I think hollow steel masts to make up for the weight being higher in hull would be the best thing. Also with this higher weight a bit off the masts would counteract perhaps.
Anyway I want to cruise perhaps a lot in deep water and do much more myself for I find I enjoy & feel better on the water, if I have[?] this.
Otherwise I suppose a steamer is best for cruising.
Please let me hear from you soon...
Adress The Albany, Piccadilly, London [with envelope postmarked Southampton 28 J(ul)y 10 and stamped in red 'Aug 6, Rec'd'.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31880. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. No date (1910-07-28).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled cablegram notice from #692s WESTWARD:] Cowes to Herreshoff, Bristol.
Fourteen minutes ahead Shamrock III. Windward work. Fair breeze, don't bother. Letter mailed Saturday. Cochran. 1:55 p.m. 8/1/10" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Correspondence (telegram notice) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31570. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-08-01.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I have yours of 28th ult. [July 28, 1910], also cable of August, and want to congratulate you on the fine racing [with #692s WESTWARD] in British waters. I see by the papers that you declined sailing with such heavy handicap as they tried on you and I sympathize with you entirely and I notice you have the support of public opinion.
I am a little sorry that WESTWARD will be laid up before the season is over but I quite realize your feeling. It is an awful strain on one racing a big yacht like WESTWARD and is very wearing on ones nerves.
You have a glorious string of winning which were honestly earned, and now if they are going to handicap you, it is perhaps best to withdraw at the present time.
I think the sea rig put in WESTWARD was a very effective one, as far a[s] driving the vessel with a small sail plan goes, but of course rather ill proportioned for gracefulness, and if you really want to make a permanent change, and give up racing entirely I would recommend making several changes, which would include --- shorting both masts --- topmasts --- bowsprit --- fore gaff, main gaff, a new mainboom, with changes in rigging to correspond, and many of the sails recut.
If you want to have this work done in England, if you wire me I can make a general spar & sail plan and forward it to you.
[Unreadable word] & asking about WESTWARD's qualities as a cruiser. She has demonstrated to you her abilities as a seagoing craft and I am quite satisfied they are fully up to or beyond the average of a racing type of model, but probably not what is possible in a design made specially for a cruiser.
The draft of water is not any too much or a vessel of WESTWARD's size, but more than is advisable in a cruiser, as many harbors will not receive[?] her. There is only one sailing craft in the N.Y.Y.C. fleet that has an equal draft.
Under the condition if you could get a good offer for her, it might be advisable to build anew. But I would not sacrifice, for you are sure of her qualities, besides having attachment for her for the victories you have won with her.
For the pleasure yacht racing, I am quite sure you would find it better in a small craft, the size of AVENGER [#666s] or smaller.
Racing in large schooners here appears to [have] died out. QUEEN [#657s] is laid up and I understand is for sale and ELMINA has really no competition.
With kindest regards and hoping you are quite well, ..." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Cochran, Alexander Smith. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31970. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1910-08-06.)
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"[Item Description:] congratulations on WESTWARD [#692s], 'about the MINNEHAHA [#187803es ex-SABRINA]. The Fins (Finlanders) in Vibourg have profited of the model of the MINNEHAHA and the HYAWATHA I had built in Wiborg ... from that time they began to build their sail craft with centre boards and called them Marini American boats! This year was the 50th anniversary of the river yacht club and they had great races, and all the 1st prizes in the different classes were won by the Finnish American Marini boats except one 1st prize by 10 meter Swedish boat the ALDEBARAM one 9 metres 1st prize Finnish American, called the DEFENDER, one 8 meters, VALKYRIAN, first prize, one 7 meters Am. class BRITA first prize, one 7 meters MAFALDA, Am. class, 2nd prize, one 6 meters Amer. class MICHANA 1st prize, one 1st class Amer. class ULK 1st prize, one 30 meters Amer. class, PAN 1st prize. So you see there was not much left for the Russian boats.', sending through daughter carving tools, 'My daughter Mamie & her husband John A. Oldenburg will leave Rotterdam on steamer ROTTERDAM for New York about the last week of this month', my youngest daughter is improving much, my daughter in law (Edd's wife) has been very ill for 4 weeks, steadily improving, I'll be 79 years old next November 11th, 'We are going to leave this house and move to a much pleasanter part of the city by the Park and Forest --- after the 15th of October [19]10 our future address will be 56 Beausejour, Uccle, Bruxelles, Belgium.' Incl handwritten list of four books on lathe work, apparently prepared by George C. de Marini for NGH. Incl. scrap of paper with penciled text (by George C. de Marini or Mamie Oldenburg?) on the back of what appears to be a letter by a Belgian instrument tuner: 'Forgot to put this in the bundle which contains 14 small wood carving tools and wooden models for castings in metal the wheel & hub or nose you will easily make from drawings in the books.' Incl. envelope from 70 rue Gerard, Etterbeek, Belgium." (Source: de Marini, (Dr.) George C. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_15390. Correspondence, Folder 42, formerly 204. 1910-08-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On George Hotel, Lichfield, stationery:] It was so nice to get your letter this morning. There is only one mistake & that is that I ever intended entering any handicap races. The entrance was made by mistake. But I'm glad I had decided whith[?]. Class racing was over so I didn't[?] really[?] lay her up before the season had finished. Well the WESTWARD [#692s] will go down to history. She is a 'topper'[?] and even [Charlie] Barr says she is the finest schooner ever built.
She really was first appreciated at Cowes.
It would have done you good to see the men there who really 'know' speak of her, as a ship, for her construction, rigging etc.
They really quite lost their heads over her at the Squadron.
It will do yachting a lot of good over here. I hope it may at home.
I think I could have sold her easily & probably can now if I want to.
Fife will have an order to build one from the owner of CICELY, I think but they really don't know what to do with WESTWARD.
You see we beat the SHAMROCK to windward or held her in a long beat, something no schooner has done here.
Barr has handled her beautifully. The day we were forced over the line in front of the Squadron we came about among the yachts recrossed the line like a cutter & beat all the schooners to first mark about 8 miles. Their eyes fairly popped out of their heads.
I entered twelve[?] races & won every one.
Well I can't[?] do more.
Now[?] as to cruiser agree with you.
I really do want a cruiser and now am inclined to have it auxiliary to this extent. Enough power to drive us say 5 or 6 knots just to get into harbors & under way.
I think a three master 20 or 30 feet longer than WESTWARD on water might be nice [this will become SEA CALL, designed by Gardner, built of monel by Lawley and soon after her launch scrapped to due to electrolysis damage]. What do you think? And small engines & perhaps oil fuel.
Would you care to design such a boat & could you build it?
Up to Lloyds [requirements] of course. And they put nice deck houses here without raising the booms or sacrificing much room below.
And not too many men to handle her but to sail practically all the time & fairly fast. It would be a fine ship something like ATLANTIC only I should sail here.
At any rate now[?] I have WESTWARD but if you would care to take this up I might go ahead. Anyway don't you think it would be a fine ship?
Also would you build if I do that[?]to race her here next summer an eight meter boat [8mR] for these classes? It might be fine for odd days.
I am afraid I am too maintain[?] at present for any dificile[?] action but would like to know what you think of an auxiliary to the extent (in power) I spoke of. Would 3 masts be a nuisance?
I don't need much of any more work[?]than WESTWARD but wouldn't mind having it & 3 masts might be handy in a cruiser? Barr is always enthusiastic about ATLANTIC. I have engaged him for next year whether I keep WESTWARD or not.
Thanks again for all you have done. Have sent you two Fields [magazines].
The WESTWARD's pictures are in all the illustrated papers. [Incl. envelope.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31360. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-08-16.)
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"[Item Transcription:] On my return from a two weeks trip along the Maine Coast I find your letter, which has lain several day. Thinking you may be looking for a prompt reply I am cabling as follows: Letter delayed. Can construct either size. Am writing.
We can construct a vessel perfectly well at least 20 feet longer than WESTWARD [#692s] over all which for a cruiser might be 30ft over her length on the water. That would be about the size of the INTREPID with a little less over all length. It appears to me though, that as you like only a small number of friends with you a somewhat smaller vessel would be better, and give you all the room you want, get along with less crew and be easier berthed in small harbors, such as you find at Neice and other harbors on the Meddaruan[sic, i.e. Mediterranean]. A three master would have sails enough[?] more and easier the[?] handle in heavy weather, but I do not think you can ever realize the speed you could in a regular schooner, and I can't think you would receive any more allowance for rig over what a two master gets. I suggested, a few years ago, to a man who was then talking of a cruising schooner, designing the rig for a good two masted schooner, and then for cruising, take away the long main boom & gaff, and slip a mizzen mast a short distance aft of steering gear like this [sketch of three masted schooner].
I think it would be a nice seagoing rig, and you could easily change to or from a rig suitable for some racing. I agree with you about auxiliary power, make it small enough for getting in & out of harbors & c. and have steam power always up on the boiler, ready for hoisting or housing sails & and or warping, but would use anthracite coal instead of oil.
As to the 8 meter [8mR] boat, of course we can build one to the International rules. But the rules call for such clumsy, heavy construction in the small classes. I am not much interested in such work. I would though very much like to build an auxiliary and as I am in better health than a year ago full confident of carrying it through in good shape. Hoping to see you on this side before very long and that you are quite well, ... [Cochran would eventually build the three masted schooner SEA CALL at Lawley's from a design by Gardner only to have her scrapped soon after her launch due to electrolysis.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Cochran, Alexander Smith. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31340. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. (1910 ?)-08-28.)
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"[Item Description:] Newspaper clipping from The Field [England], September 3, 1910]: We sometimes wonder if luxurious steam palaces and motors of all kinds have not rather softened the hands of a younger generation of yachtsmen when we hear them decry modern racing yachts. It is the fashion amongst a few armchair sailors to find fault with all new-fashioned vessels. If anything breaks on board one of the yachts of the international classes they shake their heads and say the boats are mere racing machines, forgetting, of course, that a modern 15-metre yacht sails as many races in one season as the old boats sailed in three or four years. If in a hard weather summer spars are lost they talk of the good old boats of the 'seventies' which were ships, and so on. When, too, an American yachtsman sails across the Atlantic Ocean in as fine a vessel as one could wish to see, and, having dropped anchor at Cowes, proceeds to completely outsail every British and foreign yacht on the station, what happens then? We hear it said that the Yankee boat is simply a machine, and that she is not a wholesome 'yacht.' This is really an unfortunate state of affairs, for everyone with any knowledge of yachting must be fully aware that the American yacht WESTWARD [#692s] is just as good a sea boat as any of the yachts which competed against her. She deserved the fullest credit for her successes, and as sportsmen we should at least be thankful that her owner adhered to his intention of taking no part in rule-of-thumb handicap races. [Sent by R. P. Rennis[sp?] with letter of September 14, 1910.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith (sender). Correspondence (newspaper clipping) to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31520. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-09-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I enclose you a clipping from The Field [England], received from Mr. Cochran this morning. I have been so sorry not to get up to see you, so as to tell you all that I was able about the WESTWARD [#692s] at Kiel and Cowes. I certainly shall do so in the course of the next couple of weeks. I also have some very good photographs, which I will bring with me.
Not only is the WESTWARD a wonderful Vessel, but it was most noticeable that we had no hitch of any kind or any trouble." (Source: Perkins, Robert P. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31530. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-09-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I have been so busy humming around doing nothing that I have neglected answering your letter.
I think I'll just bring [#692s] WESTWARD home and use her as she is next Summer and see how I like her so as a cruiser mostly.
They don't seem inclinded to try to build to beat her here!
It will also give me a chance to look about a bit.
Thank you for the cable & letter you sent me.
Now will you please make us have made a half model of her and send to the New York Yacht Club.
I'm sending back all the cups & Mr Perkins is arranging to have a little exhibit at the club and it would be nice to have a model there too.
Will you attend to this for me please. I sent some cups to Germany to be raced for next year & one to be called the 'WESTWARD Cup'.
They were much pleased. I hope you are well again and have had a good summer. I a class for racing home is to be built next summer I want you to keep open for one for me." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31460. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-10-10.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I have been endeavoring by telegraph with Mr. Alex S.Cochran [owner of #692s WESTWARD] and by letter and cable with Captain Barr [who would die a few weeks later], to secure the release of Captain Barr from Mr. Cochran so that he may serve as skipper on the new schooner [#706s ELENA], but regret to say I am not meeting with much encouragement as Mr. Cochran evidently desires to retain Captain Barr in his service.
Will you please put your thinking cap on and let me know, who, in your estimation, would be the best man for skipper. Of course [Bill] Dennis is not available as Brewster [owner of schooner ELMINA] would not release him.
I will appreciate such information as you may give me, and will treat same as confidential. [In the end Bill Dennis became ELENA's captain.]" (Source: Plant, Morton F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_05250. Correspondence, Folder 19, formerly 135. 1910-12-06.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Silver City, New Mexico.
I meant to write you from New York but am afraid I did not do it. The whole
plan of living for the next year or so was upset by having some old lung
trouble come back & being sent out here immediately to stay they say a year
or more but I'm not quing to make it as long as that.
However yachting is out of the question for some time to come.
Have you really an order to build for [Morton] Plant [#706s Elena]?
If I don't sell [#692s] WESTWARD the logical thing for me to do is to bring
her back and race the new schooner. I have Barr engaged and should have to
get you or Bob Perkins or both to help.
If I do do this will you give me your personal assistance.
Plant made me an offer of $50000 deld [i.e. delivered] New London April [to
sell WESTWARD]. It was so absurd I cabled him so!
She is about as good a ship as is afloat and I would sell her at an
unreasonable price. I'd rather break her up.
She is eligible to a great season either side of the water next year if you
build for Plant [#706s ELENA].
Mr[?] Whitaker[?] has written me that Fife is building him a schooner to
beat WESTWARD.
It's beastly being marooned off here. I do hope you are well. The cups and
a good photo are on show at NYY Club. I had ordered a big photo for you in
England.
It hasn't come yet. I send two small ones." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31500. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-12-06.)
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"[Item Description:] glad to hear you have another big schooner to build [#706s ELENA], but almost feel sorry that [#657s] QUEEN & [#692s] WESTWARD will both be candidates for the junk heap, should have thought that [Morton] Plant would have built her to Lloyds so that if he wanted to he could have taken the board out & raced her abroad later on, hear you took back [#694s] SHIMNA, think George F. Baker Jr might buy her if someone went to see him, but dont mention my name" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42790. Correspondence, Folder 91, formerly 127. 1910-12-09.)
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"[Item Description:] skippers [apparently for Morton Plant's new schooner #706s ELENA] are very rare, I do no not know a man fit to take charge of a big boat except [Charlie] Barr [who would die a few weeks later], Chris [Christiansen] is not available [he became #692s WESTWARD's skipper after Barr's death], John Hanson of [#657s] QUEEN is a good sailorman but not up to the position, Howell not available, Dennis would probably sail & handle her well but is objectionable in many ways, we don't give skippers here any chance to learn, am sending you a book on clipper ships [in the end, Plant chose Bill Dennis as skipper for ELENA]" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42800. Correspondence, Folder 91, formerly 127. (1910)-12-13.)
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"[Item Description:] the price supplied by HMCo yesterday for a schooner such as #692s WESTWARD is too high and delivery would be too late, is it true there is interest to build a fourth NY65?" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_24270. Correspondence, Folder 71. 1910-12-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Silver City. Thank you very much for your letter.
I've thought the whole thing over and feel that I should carry out my original ideas and race [#692s] WESTWARD over here. We may be beaten but it will help yachting and I think all the yachting men would like to see her over here.
The only thing is that I can't spend the summer on the water but I know Bob Perkins and I have written Altie [E.D.] Morgan to take charge. Any way I know he (Altie) will help.
And I am relying on you to do what you can for me. I don't mean to the disadvantage of the other boats, but you know I'll be under considerable disadvantage (perhaps) in our winds.
Any way I know you will do what you can.
The WESTWARD has made a wonderful name for herself and it would be a disgrace to be beaten. But the main thing is it will help our yachting international[?] as well as our own.
I'm meeting [Charlie] Barr who has said he will steer by me. In fact I engaged him last season for just such an emergency.
I'm doing pretty well here and hope to get East by April if possible.
Please write me again when you get a chance. I appreciate what you did for WESTWARD more than I can ever tell you." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31480. Subject Files, Folder 31, formerly 17-20. 1910-12-19.)
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"[Item Description:] am thinking of getting another larger boat for [son] David to sail around in & have run across the [#581s] ALERT [ex-BOGEY] that you built in 1902, how would she rate?, think [Morton] Plant was right in taking [Capt] Dennis for the new schooner [#706s ELENA], she will be well sailed & with Barr on [#692s] WESTWARD we should have good racing, pity that Clark can not get a decent man to handle the [#657s] QUEEN" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42840. Correspondence, Folder 92, formerly 127. 1911-01-04.)
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"[Item Description:] I have just received your letter here and hasten to answer it. I have just cabled [Alexander S.] Cochran practically that it was not a matter of clnies[?] with me at all & that it would be absolutely impossible for me to undertake [managing his schooner #692s WESTWARD for the season of 1911] --- the facts are that next Spring & Summer will be a critical time for one of the companies of which I am President & practically manage alone, many estates[?] are interested in it and there does not seem to be anyone else equally conversant with its affairs to that I am morally bound to give it all the time it needs & keep myself for[?] to do so. Otherwise I cannot imagine anything more delightful than the suggestion with its valuable accompaniments & no one knows better than you how much I would enjoy it. As a matter of fact it is only the great importance of my refusal that makes me sufficiently firm about it. I am very anxious to see the new one [#706s ELENA] which I understand from Butler [Duncan] will be lavishly clothed & have draft & ballast sufficient to make her carry it. With further heartfelt regrets at my inability & kindest regards for you & the family I am always..." (Source: Morgan, E.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_38660. Correspondence, Folder 76, formerly 62. 1911-01-10.)
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"[Item Description:] [#616s] BAMBINO is too big for [son] David and so is [#581s] ALERT [ex-BOGEY], I hear E.D. Morgan will have charge of racing [#692s] WESTWARD, he & Barr make a good team, nothing doing as to any new NY65" (Source: Duncan, W. Butler, Jr. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_42850. Correspondence, Folder 92, formerly 127. 1911-01-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Thanks for your letter. I'm sorry to say I heard from Mr Morgan saying that his business would not permit him to take charge of WESTWARD [#692s] for the season. However, I hope we shall get him interested enough as to give us some time.
I'm writing [Charlie] Barr about sails. I don't know in what condition we stand altogether.
We used your mainsail through all the races except last I think. Will let you know as soon as we decide. I hope if you have any advantage in points to keep on new schooner you will let us have them. [?]
We are going in what is hardly an equal contest to make the sport good but don't want to make too bad a showing." (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32040. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1911-01-22.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Thanks for your letter which was forwarded duly.
It was indeed a shock to hear of Captain Barr's death [on January 24, 1911].
I had become very fond of him [as captain of WESTWARD #692s] besided relying on him so much.
I shall not attempt to bring WESTWARD over to race now.
I must not be on the water much if any and I couldn't trust to a stranger to do the ship justice. If Mr. Morgan had been willing to undertake it it would have been different.
I'm very sorry. For it would have been interesting. [Together with envelope 'Winton News. 2160 West 106th Steet, Cleveland, Ohio', labeled in pencil 'WESTWARD, Cochran'/]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32060. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. 1911-02-04.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (mostly in pencil but also in ink) trials booklet titled '1898 - 1909'. Relevant contents:
§56: #191002ep [POWER TENDER FOR #692s WESTWARD] Trial Run best speed 8.1mph (= 7.04kn) (1910-04-15)
§57: #191002ep [POWER TENDER FOR #692s WESTWARD] Trial Run standing pull 260lbs, best speed 7.82mph (1910-04-20)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE09_00060. Folder [no #]. 1898-09 to 1911-04.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On 'The Brook, Seven East Fortieth Street, New York' stationery:] I've
been back two months and things seem to be perfectly right and I'm getting
keen about the water again and feel I can do a couple of months hard work
on it with advantage.
So I'm cabling Summers[?] to see if he can have WESTWARD [#692s] sent over
[from England where she had been laid up during the winter].
I know it means not much chance winning but I'd like to have her ready for
the NYYC cruise [in early August 1911] & a few races & do the best I can.
I'll try Neely [Cornelius] Vanderbilt's man I think and now you know.
I'm handicapped all around and I know you'll help me all you can.
I'll have her sent to Bristol.
Telegraph me whether you will me home Wed[nesday] or Thursday if I run up.
I want her to make a good showing. I shan't[?] try to compete in a lot of
races at Larchmont etc. My best regards...
Monday. [Undated. NGH's diary notes that Cochran visited Bristol on
Wednesday, May 3, 1911. This letter having been written on Monday, suggests
that it was written on Monday, May 1, 1911 or, less likely, Monday, April
24, 1911.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32000. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. No date (1911-05-01 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On 'Grasslands, East View, New York' stationery:] The crew got away on Saturday & I hope will get WESTWARD [#692s] here safely [across the Atlantic from England].
About[?] a tender I am undecided as to what will be best to do. I am inclinded to think that the easiest plan will be to charter one.
I think in any event $6000 for the boat you say Rainey has is altogether too much.
If we have to spend $2000 on her she ought to be bought for about $4000 --- or less.
Shall let you know to when I decide.
Yours truly...
Sunday. [Undated. May or June 1911.]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32020. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. No date (1911-06 ???).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with pinpricks titled '1911. #706 [ELENA] (or 692 [#692s WESTWARD]). Sections for NYYC model. June 8 1911. Spaces 9.6. scale 3/8'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01150. Folder [no #]. 1911-06-08.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am enclosing the LWL of WESTWARD [#692s] and RAINBOW [#532s]. Would you be good enough to give me their displacements. I understand the WESTWARD, like ELENA [#706s], does not take a Q.B.L. penalty, but apparently RAINBOW does.
I have the profiles for the Committee & I think they will sit up and take notice when they see the stem-line of JOYANT [#709s]. About everybody I have talked to gives our interpretation of 'fair line'." (Source: Hallock, W. (Meas. NYYC). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_75670. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F17, formerly MRDE15. 1911-07-27.)
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"[Item Description:] English vs Universal rule, need your advice re #709s JOYANT and #708s CORINTHIAN to prevent extreme changes to measurement rule, racing between #706s ELENA and #692s WESTWARD, #657s IROLITA ex-QUEEN quite as fast, Baker and Dodge consider building in #666s AVENGER and #694s SHIMNA class, incl. NGH reply: International Rule inferior to Universal Rule because too many measurements are taken, thus restricting design and because it leads to yachts to as well suited to general yachting purposes, JOYANT and CORINTHIAN show how well our rule works (fine showing of JOYANT due to good handling), alternative rating formulae, WESTWARD vs ELENA vs QUEEN, SHIMNA has not been beaten yet and it will be hard to do so" (Source: Cormack, George A. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_24300. Correspondence, Folder 71. 1911-08-26.)
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"[Item Description:] very many thanks for your kind letter, I am trying to persuade myself that it would be better to abandon the auxiliary feature altogether and go in for a straight sailing yacht [#722s KATOURA], my idea would be an enlarged #692s WESTWARD say 115ft WL and 160ft OA, could you turn out such a vessel by August 1st and would you recommend me to build such a vessel?, idea would be to have two rigs, I enclose rough sketch of accomodation, PS: I put 18 men in forecastle, incl. NGH reply: I think the cabin arrangement very good, like the idea of putting deck house aft, only it would have to be moved a little more aft, ..., that is as it was #590s INGOMAR and the plan made for the Emperor [#190401es], such a craft is very interesting to me and I would very much like to design and superintentend the construction of it, by 1st of August it would be too much for my brother and myself as both are feeling the wear of many years of work and find it necessary to be careful with ourselves, I was quite used up the spring after building #692s WESTWARD and again after building #706s ELENA, and last year I was fortunate in being able to go to a milder climate, I may have to leave again just when it would be necessary for me to be at home, we would like to do it and hope you can plan to allow more time before completion, do you think it possible?" (Source: Tod, Robert E. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_16870. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1912-12-03.)
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"[Item Description:] what would be the earliest date that you would be able to deliver the yacht [#722s KATOURA] I now propose[?], mast location, deck house not too far aft, am partial to good long overhangs, even for sea work, as the longer the overhang forward the shorter the bowsprit, my object in such a boat would be to outsail such boats as METEOR, GERMANIA & #692s WESTWARD" (Source: Tod, Robert E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_16890. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1912-12-06.)
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"[Item Description:] Typewritten copy of the log of #692s WESTWARD following her trans-Atlantic delivery from New York to Kiel after her sale to Germany, made by Robert E. Tod and sent by him with letter dated January 30, 1913; incl. envelope with penciled note ' WESTWARD. 3 Letters & Log. Trip to Germany, Dec. 1912. N. G. Herreshoff.'" (Source: Coalfleet, Capt. C. (creator). Log. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_56320. Subject Files, Folder 67, formerly 151. 1912-12-04 to 1912-12-23.)
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"[Item Description:] delayed reply, wished to talk with my brother who has been under the weather, earliest time for delivery [of what will be #722s KATOURA] middle of September next provided order was placed by Jan 1st, deck house placement, with 115 w.l. and 160 overall overhangs would be proportionately as on #692s WESTWARD and long enough for good appearance" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Tod, Robert E. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_16900. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1912-12-09.)
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"[Item Description:] have returned from Chicago and find two letters from HMCo which rather surprise me, in the first place you may recollect that when Mr. Buchan and I came to Bristol the first time the price for a 115 water line schooner [#722s KATOURA] complete, ..., was talked of at $150,000 and I was informed that the #692s WESTWARD's ocean rig cost about $10,000, on Nov 4 your company sent me a letter quoting $162,000 for a 120ft schooner complete with auxiliaries for delivery August 1, now I receive a proposition for a 115 foot water line schooner without auxiliaries with ocean rig for $157,00 plus upholstery $1500 and racing rig $19,725, I will therefore let the matter drop and regret exceedingly having put you to this additional trouble, PS: I had no idea that my letter modified the 'completeness' of the schooner, I enclose a letter from Mr. Cheseborough which might indicate to me that your company did not care particularly about getting the order" (Source: Tod, Robert E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_16850. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1912-12-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Letter following a trans-Atlantic delivery of #692s WESTWARD from New York to Kiel after her sale to Germany: In am late in keeping my promise to write you a description of my passage across to Keil [sic, i.e. Kiel] in the yacht WESTWARD. We passed out by Montauk Point on the evening of December 6th and arrived at the Lizzard on the 19th, making the passage in 12 days 17 hours from Montauk Point to the Lizzard and 16 days to Keil. I found the yacht a splendid sea boat and will say right here that she is the best sailing vessel in every way that I have had anything to do with. We had strong winds and a very heavy westerly sea and we run them all out just as comfortable as if she had been a 2000 ton ship.
From the Lizzard up the Channel we had a strong south wind and short choppy sea. We carried foresail, two head sails and main trysail and passed all ships in sight, both sail and steam. We delivered her safe in Keil without breaking a rope yarn. I enjoyed the trip very much; it was a great pleasure to me to sail such a splendid vessel. I would like very much to have a photo of her for I never expect to have another such experience.
Hoping that you will have the pleasure of building many more like the WESTWARD I remain ..." (Source: Coalfleet, Capt. C. Letter to Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_56300. Subject Files, Folder 67, formerly 151. 1913-01-23.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Letter following a trans-Atlantic delivery of #692s WESTWARD from New York to Kiel after her sale to Germany: Just a line to lot you know that I am well, and I trust this will find you the same and that you are enjoying the best of health. I have just got back from Germany: I suppose you know that I went across in the WESTWARD; you know Mr. Hathaway and we all know that the WESTWARD was a good boat, but I want to tell you that she was the best boat ever made with hands, and the best boat ever crossed the Atlantic. She was a wonder and I regret that she should go to Germany. We had heary gales, varying from S.W. to west and N.W. and then backing in the same way, and the sea running mountain high, but there was never a time that she was in any danger, or we have to heave her to for harder it blowed better she liked it. She could run before it and clear herself marvelous and she steered beautifully. We had a very successful passage, 12 days 17 hours 25 minutes from Montauk Point to the Lizzard and 16 days 20 hours to Cuxhaven and never carried away a thing nor any one hurt.
I came back in the Hamburg-American S.S. President Grant 17 days from Hamburg to New York. That gives you an idea what kind of weather there has been on the Atlantic. Now my Dear Mr. Hathaway do you know of anything going on in Bristol in the yachting line. Capt. Lem. Miller wanted me to write to Mr. Nat before I left but I failed to do so, so I thought I would write to you first if you could put me wise to something. Give my best regards to the boys and with best wishes to yourself, I am, ..." (Source: Anderson, B.I. Letter to Hathaway, Asa (Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.). Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_56290. Subject Files, Folder 67, formerly 151. 1913-01-27.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Letter enclosing a copy of the log of #692s WESTWARD following her trans-Atlantic delivery from New York to Kiel after her sale to Germany: I enclose herewith a copy of an extract from the WESTWARD's log of her recent trip across the Atlantic, which I thought might interest you. I borrowed the log and had several copies made. You will note that Captain Coalfleet took his departure from Montauk Point and up to noon of December 7th had run 208 miles in about nineteen and one-half hours, which is a magnificent run. The Captain informs me that he carried no foretopmast on the trip over, and that he sent down his main-gafftopsail about one-half way over. The main boom he carried was about 62 feet and the fore yard about 50 feet. He also informs me that one night she ran 32 miles in 2 hours and 8 minutes. He could not speak too highly of her sea qualities.
I trust that this mild winter agrees with you, and that your work is progressing to your entire satisfaction.
With kind regards to your brother, I remain ..." (Source: Tod, Robert E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_56310. Subject Files, Folder 67, formerly 151. 1913-01-30.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On Hotel Ritz, Paris stationery:] Thank you for your letter. I didn't write before because I thought better to wait until I heard from you.
I quite understand that you are engaged to build for some New York parties if they decide to build to defend the Cup.
In that case I should not care to built at all.
If they decide not to build and you feel like doing so for me individually, I should like to work at it with you.
I can understand you hesitate to undertake this work, and I hope you will understand my not wanting to build if you are building for others.
Anyway please let me know as soon as you have decided by wire if you will.
I had supposed the challenge had been definitely accepted.
I shall not go in any syndicate but I would enjoy doing this with you as we did WESTWARD [#692s]" (Source: Cochran, Alexander Smith. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_24540. Subject Files, Folder 2, formerly 96-100. 1913-06-23.)
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"[Item Description:] [on Hotel Atlantic, Hamburg stationery:] I enclose picture of new Fife schooner that takes place of WATERWITCH which was such a failure, I understand the new boat has been quite successful, #692s WESTWARD is now HAMBURG II but they have added 5 inches to her bulwarks, also added a half deck house and other alterations to comply with rules, hope you and your brother are well and work on new schooner [#722s KATOURA] is going along nicely" (Source: Tod, Robert E. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_16910. Correspondence, Folder 45, formerly 146. 1913-07-06.)
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"[Item Description:] account of #719s VAGRANT II's trip across the Atlantic, regarding the sea-going qualities of the boat I cannot say too much, proved very buoyant and easy in a seaway and even when driving into a head-sea, not a creak in any part of the boat at any time, which proved the excellent quality of her construction nor did we have any trouble whatsoever with the standing rigging, rigging and blocks for the light sails and topsails proved to be too light and we are discarding practically all of it for heavier as was also necessary in the old #698s VAGRANT and in the #692s WESTWARD, will place rail with cleats around the foremast, windlass not enough power to break out anchor, above statements not made in a spirit of criticism but merely to give you my frank opinion of the boat, I was much pleased with the jib and mainsail sailing boat [#191306es or #191307es], which proved fast, seaworthy and easy to handle, VAGRANT now on her way back to the U.S., enclose photos of #692s WESTWARD, VAGRANT is quite fast, unquestionably faster than any boat in her class" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17410. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1913-09-14.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§7: Work Order [For] #692s, #694s and stock. [When wanted] Soon as possible. Manila rope (1909-11-04)
§8: Work Order [For] #692s, #694s and stock. [When wanted] Soon as possible. Roebling plow wire rope (1909-11-08)
§10: Work Order [For] #692s Sea-rig. [When wanted] April 1st. Rigging [4 pages] (1910-01-08 & 1910-01-09)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Order Book. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_04730. Folder [no #]. 1909-10 to 1914-11.)
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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:] Penciled draft letter on back of envelope: I was much interested in your kind letter of yesterday. And have given the matter a little thought. I know it would be a great pleasure to work out details with you as we did in days of WESTWARD [#692s], but that was my hearts work, and I am afraid it would be different in this scheme of submarines. I am not at all interested in war and destruction[?]. Perhaps I would fight if driven[?] to it but I am too much of a Quaker to really devise and construct engines of war. Twenty years or more ago Holland [the inventor of the first practical U.S. submarine) came to us to build his first submarine. We did not take it up, having other work in hand. He has been studying to develop submarines ever since while I know no more about them than I did then. But that is a poor excuse. The real one is that I am too old to take up an entirely new line of study. My years are too short and the subject is not next to my heart, so I really feel I must decline. It is quite true things are not going smoothly in our[?] concern[?]. John and I have had too many differences. I am in a bad situation, as I own nearly half the stock & would like to get out of it without being scalped. [Undated. Envelope is postmarked 'JUN 3' which is believed to be 1915 and thus suggests a date of ca. June 5, 1915 when this letter was drafted. See Cochran letter from June 2, 1915 for more discussion on the date.] " (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Cochran, Alexander Smith. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31770. Subject Files, Folder 32, formerly 17-20. No date (1915-06-05 ???).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled tabulated data, untitled, with comparative weight data for for Hull, Cabin work, Rig (standing), Equipment (chanin, anchors, boats, sails, etc), Furnishings , water, crew, etc., Outside lead, inside lead (all his data as percentages), Displacement (in lbs and cubic foot), w.l. (in ft), beam (in f.t) and cube-root(D)/lwl for 7 schooner yachts: #590s INGOMAR, #657s QUEEN, #692s WESTWARD, #698s VAGRANT I [marked 'composite'], #706s ELENA, #891s WILDFIRE, and #719s VAGRANT II. With additional calculations for WILDFIRE. On verso of printed voting proxy from Fairhaven Mills for annual stockholders meeting on February 1, 1922. Undated, WILDFIRE the latest of these designs, was contracted for on December 13, 1922." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03000. Folder [no #]. No date (1922-12-13 or later ??).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§4: #278p [POWER LAUNCH FOR #692s WESTWARD] Trial Run 'made 10.5 miles per our' (1911-07-07)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Typewritten signed 8-page letter:] All the suggestions in your letter seem very reasonable to me and I am very willing to incorporate them in a design for you [that will eventually become #1053s PUFFIN --- to Junius Morgan's own design]. You must understand however that with these modifications you will not get the extreme clipper which I may make for some one else, I will not take an order from any one else for an 'R' boat down the Sound though unless you definitely decide not to build.
I am now going to discuss some of your suggestions but only in hope that it will be of interest to you and not in an attempt to influence you to change your requirements. I will take them up in the order they are mentioned in your letter of Oct. 4.
# 1 Hull- If the hull is given a larger beam-length ratio it will give the boat more wetted surface compared to lateral resistance,- it will decrease the percentage of ballast weight, (the hull wood work will weigh more). Increase in beam makes it much harder to get the Q. B. L. [Quarter Beam Length] in comfortably.
If the W. L. beam is 6ft-6in or more it will be necessary to use the conventional transom but as your boat would be kept in a part of the country where people christen anything new as a freak it may be well to stick to the conventional.
The reasons for the pointed stern are that it [p. 2] in creases the length of the immersed displacement when sailing, (these boats sail on quite a level keel and make a large wave under the quarter). This is particularly so when reaching and the YANKEE did not at all take advantage of this following quarter wave.
The pointed stern is cheaper to build and lighter. When people get accustomed to it I am sure they will think it also much handsomer. As for sea-worthiness the double-ender is far superior in a following sea as it resists pooping. This may make someone laugh who has not had this experience but I was once washed right away from the tiller and knocked down in the cockpit of a small boat by a following coamer. These things make an impression on one. In every way I consider a length to beam ratio of more than 4 a mistake when a boat is to have a high, narrow rig for if the beam is more than that the hull will not have enough tendency to swing off to counteract the strong luffing tendency the high narrow rig has. The wide boat when knocked down will at times get out of control and come up in the wind. In fact experience and careful observation show that the narrow boat is the safest, dryest, cheapest and fastest. The narrow boat under either the Universal or International rule has the most headroom. This is unquestionably the most necessary dimension for comfort.
Of late years there have been numerous people who have preached the desirability of great beam. They have spoken of Capt. Slocum's SPRAY, whaling ships, etc.
[p. 3] They never seem to mention Capt. Voss' TILIKUM with length to beam ratio of almost 8 or speak of how much more comfortable one of our modern destroyers would be than a whaling ship if traveling at the rate of 10 miles per hour against a full gale. I believe that the ease with which a boat can be handled is nearly in direct proportion to its sail area, all other things being equal. If this is so it is interesting to note that in the R and Q classes the S. A., and beam have remained the same since since before leg-o-mutton sails were adopted; the length and room (displacement) though, have been greatly increased making the boats much better than they were. If some new invention is made which increases the efficiency of sails for their measured area, the boats will again make an increase in length and room. I thank the Lord we have a rule which allows a hull which can be changed to best fit the requirements of sail plan. Some people think that a woman and a sail boat must be short, homely and heavily built to have good qualities; I don't belong to this school.
The web frame construction used on YANKEE was worked out after considerable study to make it possible to build a boat which would retain her designed shape during and after construction. It is also much stronger, slightly lighter and cheaper to build. It also holds a much smoother bottom. I am now designing a power boat which is being built with this construction and I shall probably use it in all types of boats, cruising or racing later. I think it will work out fine in big boats.
If you have your boat built at Bristol it will [p. 4] probably be best to use the old fashioned construction for they use a mold for every frame which is a help in holding shape, at least during the first part of the time. Also at Bristol there is no one of intelligence actively in charge of construction now so that to use anything new would be practically impossible.
Rig- For several years I have been trying to work out a stream-lined shape mast either swiveling or stationary. So far the only solution to the problem I have been able to make has been the one I sent you. This is principally on account of construction reasons. I will try again to work out something along the line you suggest but it will probably be necessary to use a mast almost exactly like YANKEE's but with a strut for forestay. I approve of making the fore triangle larger as you suggest but I do not at all approve of the loose footed jib which necessitates cutting the foot very high to make it set. With a jib like the GAMECOCK [#932s] carried at Newport it is useless to think of trying to race for the amount of wind which escapes down and under it as appalling. Of course driving force is only acquired from wind driven toward the stern and any that escapes is a loss. The boom on the YANKEE was designed to stop the down-flow of air and I noticed that you had one on GRAYLING [#966s] which was similar but not quite as efficient for the purpose.
In your letter you did not suggest any dimensions. This being the case how do you like these which I am giv[ing] beside those of YANKEE?
[p. 5] New Boat; YANKEE
L.W.L.; 26.25ft; 26ft
L.O.A.; 38.ft; 37ft
W.L. Beam; 6.50ft; 6.42ft
Ex. Beam; 7ft; 6.75ft
Measured S. A.; 590 sq.ft.; 592
Actual S. A.; 625; 622
When I consider all the things which we are not going to do in this new boat it seems as if we were leaning backward when we are trying to go ahead. Nevertheless I am willing to try this practically impossible proposition of trying to gain speed without decreasing resistance or increasing driving power. Of course the boat will have to have perfect sails and be well sailed or she won't beat YANKEE.
I hear that Mr. Mallory and his followers are making another attempt to have the Universal rule discarded and the International rule adopted for the measurement of racing boats in this country. If they are successful I am afraid the result will be a great disaster to yachting in general for the following reasons:-
(1) Uncertainty about the rule is discouraging many people and keeping some I know of from building.
(2) The building of boats under Lloyds rule is so complicated that their cost will be prohibitive.
(3) Lloyds rules were originally gotten up by a body of men who are principally familiar with ship construction. There are so many alternatives in them that it is practically impossible to have two boats by different designers come anywhere near the same weight and strength. A designer will have to become a sea-lawyer, politician and grafter [p. 6] to get any satisfaction from their stupid inspectors.
(4) It will be easy to build terrible freaks and unsafe boats which will win under the International rule.
(5) The International rule being an addition rule, it is possible to build boats with large sails and small hulls or others with large hull measurements and small sails so that the boats never finish close together in different weather conditions. In fact the rule is so poor that the British do not even use it in their large classes. (Note: the BRITANIA, LULWORTH, WHITE HEATHER, SHAMROCK AND WESTWARD [#692s] raced together under arbitrary handicaps with no measurement all summer.)
(6) If the Sound clubs adopt this foolish International rule they probably will have to race with themselves for it is unlikely that any other locality will actually build boats to it even if their representatives are misguided and do vote for its adoption.
If some one could only explain to these people that our Universal Role is developing a type of boat which is as large, safe, dry, comfortable for its sail area and that all good boats which are well sailed always finish close together in any breeze, they might realize the great harm they are doing in stopping this good development.
Some bolshevists down the sound have started the cry that the Universal rule is developing an unwholesome type of boat. The common people who do not stop to think have taken up the cry and are making great heroes of anyone who can think of new imaginary complaints against it.
[p. 7] So far their complaints are that the the freeboard is too small, the beam too narrow and length too great. Before they had run amock some one should have explained to them that freeboard is only required to keep the boat dry and to keep the lee rail from going under water. In these respects the 'R' boats are superior to any other type of boat. Beam and length I have discussed above.
Some of them have said the 'R' boats would not make a desirable type of boat if scaled up to 50ft rating. Of course large boats are always built [to] different proportions from small ones, besides the rule calls for different proportions but at any rate if a large boat were made as much like an 'R' boat as possible under the rule she certainly would be a beautiful thing and have accommodation enough to comfortably carry all her gear and live aboard of. In other words she would have the same S. A. and freeboard as present fifties, her displacement or room might be 40% more, she would be stiffer, dryer and faster, much easier in a sea and practically never have to shorten sail, in fact a far superior yacht to any we have ever had. Another complaint they make is that the boats are getting bigger and bigger every year. This of course is only because the driving power per square foot of sail has been increased. I consider this a fine thing and hope it will increase still more. If the boats in a certain class have increased in expense more than a certain person's pocket book can stand he should go into the next smaller class. It is high time an open designed 'S' class was started on the Sound anyway, as they would have slightly larger hulls than 6 metre [p. 8] boats, be cheaper, faster and in every way better, our rule cannot be beaten and we cannot increase our sail area for rating. (See table of S. A. for classes 'S', 'R' and 'Q' on page 154 of 'Elements of Yacht Design').
I beg your pardon for writing you this long drawn-out letter but some of the subjects touched on excite me particularly at this time when I have just heard that the Advisory Committee of the N. Y. R. A. is going to put a vote before the next meeting to adopt the International rule.
As soon as I get a reply to this letter I will start on some drawing for you and am agreeable to the understanding in the last paragraph of your letter of Oct. 4.
Yours very truly, ..." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Letter to Morgan, Junius S. Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection Acc. 98.97. Correspondence, Folder 34, formerly 183. 1926-10-07.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On board] 'WINCHESTER CASTLE' Southampton to Durban
Dear Mr. Herrishoff[sic]
for the love of 'WESTWARD' [#692s] would you allow me to trouble you again as I do want to keep her in the racing.
I would like to know what is necessary to do to her to get the best out of this new J class rule.
No doubt you will have seen in the pamphlet issued by the Y.R.A. the following[:]
'We recommend that the Y.R.A. should rate old yachts over 46 feet LWL (i.e. yachts built before 1st Jan 1930) by the New York Yacht Club Rule, as modified by the Committee, but with all the penalties & limits cancelled.
This rules of the penalties are deleted can be expressed by the following formula[:]
Rating. A percentage of the square root of the sail area. The percentage used shall be found as follows
Percentage = (0.9 * LWL) / (LWL + 2.5)
Time allowance to be upon rating, and the international scale of tie allowance to be used.
Rig allowance as in the N.Y.Y.C. Rule.
Just how to take advantage of this rule to its full extent is too much for me & I may say or experts on this side are never ready to help 'WESTWARD' but rather hinder.
Now Sir will you advise me as to the following[:]
1st How much could I shorten the main boom & bowsprit
2nd What length of topmast am I permitted above mainmast under gaff rig also foremast
3rd What draft of water & can I with advantage put more ballast outside.
It is the BRITANNIA I want to beat & she has all her lead outside.
My idea is to shorten main boom by 15 feet. This will take off according to my measurements 750 sqr feet & 15 feet off bowsprit would reduce big jib by 300 sq feet, 'all approximately'. I would start the latter with 10 feet however till I get her ballance[sic].
I do not want a Bermudian mainsail it it can be avoided.
I will never give up racing 'WESTWARD' until I am pushed out & they cannot do that unless BRITANNIA drops out.
I very likely will however get a J class boat & I would like to know if there is a likelihood of one of the four [America's Cup] Challengers being for sale. What would be the figure[?]
It is wonderful how all the new Defenders follow the lines of 'WESTWARD'.
I was hoping the designers of these boats would have thought out their own design so as to have given Sit Thomas a chance to lift the Cup.
I thank you for past kindness & I only wish you would come to S[outh] Africa for a Winter as it would give me pleasure to put my house at your disposal.
I will hold over the making of our new mainsail till I hear from you.
I expect to leave Durban for England & the South of France the first week in Feb. so please write me. [Incl NGH draft reply from Coconut Grove dated December 13, 1930:] Your valued and very interesting letter of 11th ult has been forwarded to me here where I am passing the winter.
Although several years retired I still have an intense interest in yacht racing and particularly following up the racing of those of my design of which WESTWARD is foremost of my passing fleet. Your comment on the Cup defenders of the past season is interesting. ENTERPRISE [#1146s] [designed by Starling Burgess] particularly is very much like WESTWARD in model.
The great improvement in racing speed of today is plainly due to the more efficient driving power of sails for their measured area [next 13 words crossed out] and is a great deal due to experiments in aeronautics for developing aeroplanes and I feel quite confident WESTWARD would be faster for her rating if her rig was changed to make it more up to date.
I have some of the original notes of WESTWARD's design with me, but unfortunately not the sail plan and I will have to send to the H.M.Co. for a copy.
I have not the International Rules later than 1926 so am quite at sea to make any definate recommendations. In a general way to improve racing speed I would recommend to increase the draft up to the limit allowed by putting inside lead on bottom of keel. Make the length of masts as high as possible under the rules and fit for a Bermudian mainsail, for I am positive it will be faster for its measurement than the old gaff rig.
Shorten main boom and bowsprit about equal amounts to keep balance. This is quite tentative and I w[ou]ld not dare to give definate amounts until I know the exact rules of measurement.
If there are changes from original rig please advise me. Also inform me about sail carrying ability as compared to your competitors, and if WESTWARD is correctly balanced on helm. It is always best to carry a little weather helm when close hauled --- not exceeding 5deg or 5deg of rudder angle.
For the sails between masts the staysail rig has shown better racing speed in our waters but I am not convinced it is really faster if the gaff foresail is correctly proportioned and used and either the working main topmast staysail or fore gaff topsail is properly proportioned and used. [Next sentence crossed out:] There is apparently not much improvement made in sails under fore triangle excepting to get the sails as upright as possible.
[The following paragraph crossed out:] Referring again to draft. I think our present ruling is at fault, and a keel yacht the size of WESTWARD should be allowed near 20ft draft to obtain best racing speed and that lesser draft should be compensated for, possibly by deducting the deficiency from L.w.l. Your suggestion of shortening main boom & bowsprit 15ft at first thought seems large, but I would prefer not making a definate statement until I have correct ruling and make a rough sail plan.
I shall be at this address until after May 1, then an Bristol, RI, and I will be glad to give you what information I can if it will be of use to you." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32210. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1930-10-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Carbon copy or mimeographed letter marked 'Copy. Yacht Racing Association" in upper margin and, in ink, 'Confidential':] My dear Davis,
I received your letter on December 1st.
I will try to answer the questions in it.
The Yachts next year will and in the future will race all together in the same race under the following conditions:-
New Yachts. [etc, etc.]
Old Yachts. [etc, etc.]
Now the New Yachts of Section 1 will be measured exactly by the American Rule as amended by us in America.
The Old Yachts of Section 2 will be measured by the American Rule but will be given the advantage of their penalties being cancelled. [etc, etc.]
Next let me explain how these Laws will actually affect the sport. [etc, etc.]
This brings us to the question what can be done with WESTWARD [#692s]?
If she raced unaltered she would rate 59.64. This would cause her to give BRITANNIA (altered about 17 seconds per mile.) I do not think she would be able to do this. Therefore we must inquire how she could be altered?
I show an alteration on the enclosed brown paper. As altered WESTWARD would carry about 1500 square feet more sail than BRITANNIA as altered. Her Rating comes out when thus altered practically the same as BRITANNIA so they would sail level. [etc, etc.]
Now you need not be alarmed at the sail plan I have drawn. The Foresail and fore topsail is shown without any alterations. The boom is reduced from 84.75 to 67 = 17.75. I expect however the 84.75 is a very full measurement.
Your own proposal is to cut 15 feet off the boom. I propose 17 feet. The base of your fore triangle is now 70.1 feet. You propose to make it 55 feet. I propose to make it 50 feet.
I have shown a main mast of 144 feet, the total allowed by the Rule is 146 for 10, 176 feet of sail, a foot or two makes very little difference.
I do not know if Herreshoff would advise changing to a staysail rig on the fore-mast.
The BRITANNIA if altered will have a hollow mast. You would gain advantage by a hollow mast.
If the WESTWARD was altered to this rig I should advise you to telegraph Herreshoff thus:-
'Please send me a modernised sail plan with Bermudian mainsail for WESTWARD complying with the New York Yacht Club Rule of Measurement having area about 10,180 feet giving her a schooners rating of about 78 decimal 8 feet without penalties stop mainmast height about 145 feet.'
There is a great inducement to an American 'J' class boat to come over as she would race level at 76 with Shamrock V, Candida and Astra. She would receive small time from BRITANNIA and yourself.
A new 'J' class boat in 1932 would get excellent sport in the same way, should you think of building one.
The above is a bona fide attempt to abolish mere Rule of thumb handicaps and to race on Rating. To allow Old Yachts a fair and reasonable chance. Certain old yachts unavoidably suffer. I should say LULWORTH because she is too heavy to have her sail reduced. WHITE HEATHER is really worn out. SHAMROCK 23 metre would stand a fair chance if reduced to 76. I think the WESTWARD's chance (sail area reduced) should be fair. I see no reason against it because her hull is designed to the Rule and it is only her sail that requires adjusting according to the 20 years experience designers have gained in the aerodynamics of sails since she was rigged and built.
[etc, etc.]
I would advise you to alter the WESTWARD's rig because I think you would get some good fun in 1931, and afterwards she would be a nicer boat with the altered plan for cruising or anything else.
I have sent you but a rough (very rough) sketch, but is on no avail my sending a proper drawing because only the designer's firm can send you a properly designed sail plan.
The best alterations possible in my opinion are:-
1. Redesigned sail plan giving a rating of 78.8 reduced as schooner designer by Herreshoff.
2. Hollow masts suggest made by Nicholson. [Penciled note, apparently by Davis:] Ourselves.
3. The sails to Herreshoff's plan made by [blank]? [Penciled note, apparently by Davis:] Ourselves.
On point 1 you could take Herreshoff's advice as to whether Bermudian mainsail and gaff foresail, or Bermudian mainsail and staysail rig on foremast is fastest. As to 2 and 3 you can 'go the whole hog' or make a compromise as you feel disposed.
With regard to your kind offer of a fee for this work we can leave that over till we meet and whatever you wish that let it be. I much appreciate you mention of it.
Si with most kind wishes to you and Mrs Davis and all I look forward to happy days with you on the ship in the future.
Yours sincerely, ...
In making these calculations I have guessed the distance from the upper side of the main boom to the deck as 5 feet. [Etc, etc.] [Inc. sailplan in ink of WESTWARD with Bermudian mainsail and gaff foresail and inked annotations and calculations.] [Incl envelope from South Africa to NGH in Florida.]" (Source: Heckstall-Smith, B. Letter (copy) to Davis, Thomas B.F. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32100. Subject Files, Folder 33, formerly 17-20. 1930-12-03.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled (traced) sailplan titled 'WESTWARD [#692s]. Copy of sketch sent T. B. F. Davis, Esq. showing new Rig proposed by Nathl. G. Herreshoff. Jan[uary] 1931'. With penciled calculation arriving at a sail area of 11980sqft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0312. WRDT04, Folder 28, formerly MRDE09. 1931-01.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On 'Nathanael G. Herreshoff, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida' stationery marked 'Copy':] Referring again to yours of Nov. 11th, about WESTWARD [#692s], a preliminary reply to which I made Dec 14 and sent to Durban.
First. Yachting Monthly for Oct, p 134, gives standing of the large class in seasons' racing and from it I have made he following table showing the percentages to starts and places as follows.-
[Name] First places 1st2nd3rd places
SHAMROCK V 68% 86%
WESTWARD 36 71
LULWORTH 24 45
BRITANNIA 18-1/2 37
CANDIDA 14-1/2 60
WHITE HEATHER 13-1/2 33
ASTRA 8 58
CAMBRIA 5 52
Which is certainly a fine showing for WESTWARD, particularly as she is racing under her original sailplan (as I understand it) and the others have improved rigs.
Since getting WESTWARD's sailplan from the Herreshoff Mfg Co, I have taken pleasure in working out a new sailplan, that embodies more recent experience, and I would expect will materially increase her racing speed and on a lower rating, and I am inclosing a diagram of it,- but must apologize for not giving you a better one, for at my forescore & three years my sight is not so good as formerly for drawing.
The diagram shows a rig having a BERMUDA mainsail, the bowsprit and main boom shortened, the masts much longer, and for the best results should be hollow and in one piece, i.e. continuous from end to end.
The masts are in the same position as originally. The original masts were solid Douglas Fir (Oregon Pine) sticks and of course quite heavy.
The topmast, gaffs and topsail spars were hollow built up spars. I have no information if they have been replaced in the 20 years of service. Today, none of the racing yachts around here have solid masts, all are of spruce, built up hollow, with walls on an average about 1/5th outside diameter, or of steel.
In the WESTWARD there would be a saving aloft of over 2 tons which of course is a vital consideration in a racing yacht.
If you do not care to incur the expense of new hollow masts and the present lower masts are sound and fit for another period of use, after reducing diameters by taking off about 1/4in from surfaces, to remove weather worn wood, you might have them lengthened to required lengths by building on hollow upper ends. This we have done successfully a number of times in the past 10 years.
I have not the latest measurement rules of the I.Y.R.A., but as you mentioned in your letter of Nov 11, practically the Universal Rule for measurement has been adapted but modified by making rating a percentage of cube-rt(S) represented by .9 * LWL/(LWL/2-1/2).
For WESTWARD it amounts to .867 of square root of sail area. The new sailplan by N.Y.Y.C rules measures 11860 sqft (about) and square root is 109.0. .876 of which is 95.5ft rating for single masted yacht. N.Y.Y.C. allows 90% for schooner rig: 90% of 95.5 = 86.0 for racing measurement under the proposed new sail plan. In the same way the old rig figures at 89 ft with only working gaff topsail. If the club topsail is included, the sail measurement becomes 13582 and then, schooner rating is 91 ft.
Referring to diagram for new rig it compares to old one as follows:
Proposed rig. Old rig.
Base of fore [triangle] 56-1/2ft 69ft
Height of fore [triangle] 133ft 112ft
Height fore boom above deck 5ft 3ft
Length of fore boom 34ft 34ft
Length of fore gaff 32ft 37ft
Length of main mast above deck 153-1/2 129-1/2
Height of mainboom above deck 6 4-12
Length of mainboom 72 85
Length of gaff 0 53-1/2
Luff of foresail 64 58-1/2
Luff of topsail 64 48
Luff of mainsail 148 65(+59=124)
Luff of main gaff topsail 0 59
Height club topsail above boom - 146ft
It will be seen the bowsprit is shortened 12-1/2ft and main boom 13ft.
The actual area of sails compare as follows:- and I have added the vertical height of each sail, and this multiplied by the square root of its area gives a figure that indicates roughly its comparative driving power:
[Table with total sail areas of 11334 and 12587 sqft for new and old rig, respectively.]
I expect the yacht will carry the proposed rig in about the same strength of wind as the old one when carrying the main gaff topsail and from my observations on other yachts we have changed over, would expect about the same speed down wind and a decided improvement to windward.
By the Universal Rule, sail area is roughly 11860 sqft = 109.2. The height of mast allowed is .140% sail area + 5. = 157-1/4ft above deck. My plan shows but 153-1/2ft.
The draft of water, as taken from original plans is 16ft 11-1/4in for 96ft l.w.l. The limit would be 17ft 1-3/8in, so there is little opportunity to add lead to bottom of keel.
If you decide to re-rig WESTWARD following my plans and you prefer to have the Herreshoff Mfg Co. develop the plans, I am quite sure they could take the work in hand, but it is doubtful if the drawings could be made ready in time for an English yard to complete the work for the 1931 yachting season. If you desire it for 1931, it had better be all done in an English yard.
I will not be home till May 15th or later.
Assuring you of my continued interest in WESTWARD, and with kind regards,
Sincerely yours ..." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter (copy) to Davis, Thomas B.F. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32330. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1931-01-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your letter of the 14th. ult., and I can assure you it fills me with delight to know that you are prepared to guide me in future alterations to my great ship 'WESTWARD' [#692s].
First. She now stands exactly as you built her with the exception that she has a Marconi topmast and no topsail yard. The sheave hole of main topsail is 149' 6' from the deck.
Second. I am reducing main boom by 15 feet, which brings it to 69ft 6in, and the bowsprit by 15 feet, which brings it to 17 feet from the tack of the jib to the stem or 18ft 6in from the tack of the jib to tack of staysail. This will give us a fore triangle of 53 feet, and according to the new rule I think I am allowed without penalty:-
Fore Triangle 50 feet.
Foot of Mainsail 67 feet.
Luff 139 feet.
for 10,176 sq. feet of sail.
Of course I can bring my sails in on the bowsprit if I find she does not carry a little weather helm.
In reply to your question of balance, WESTWARD has always always been perfect this way, and easily adjusted by her jib topsail.
I am glad you are not in favour of the staysail rig, as I must say I like the boom and gaff.
I herewith enclose copy of [December 3, 1930] letter I had from Heckstall Smith, Secretary. Y.R.A. You will see he gives me advice regarding alterations, etc., but I certainly do not agree with him saying that the deepening of the keel will not make much difference. I say it will make a considerable difference because she is a very tender ship, and whilst she is all right as she is against her own class you could not beat her as the best all round boat, because in the lightest of winds we have beaten the fleet tack for tack in the Solent with the tide. Of course it is a horse of another colour against the tide where the little devils can get in out of tide.
In light winds we cannot expect to do too much against the latest fliers but beat them out of time in a breeze, and under these latter conditions we are up against 'BRITANNIA' who has all her lead outside and this is the one I want to beat.
Of course you will quite understand that there is nobody in England very anxious to improve 'WESTWARD', not even my friend Heckstall Smith, and I have to do all our own work even to making our own mainmast with our crew and engaging my own sailmakers to make our own sails to my drafting.
Should I have carried away a mast during 1934 when I when first got her the yacht yards would have, and did say 'Sorry but we have no spars spare', and you may be surprised to know that all these big spars are imported by the merchants for the yacht yards. I therefore did without the merchants and got a friend in Vancouver to send two, and when we made our mainmast I replaced the log, so I have two logs in Jersey where I lay up 'WESTWARD'.
We put in and take out our masts with her racing main boom and the windlass as we have no appliances. I herewith send you some snaps of our work. Mr Meek, Lloyd's Surveyor, says the mast is as good a job as the original, and the new mainsail we were making is as good work as he has seen at Ratsey & Lapthorn.
Your 'WESTWARD' is nearly in as good condition as the day she was built. I keep half the crew by her all through the winter and even to the service on the rigging is replaced with new every year.
We are now reducing the size of our mainsails and jibs to these new measurements, as I think I will put in a few races at Cowes even if we are over-handicapped.
I will be glad to get your plans and recommendations as to alteration and I will have time during the coming winter to carry out all details if you decide she will stand a chance as in the past. Will you tell me if it is necessary to hollow out our present mast or just continue the present one with a hollow top part. Please rest assured that anything we do to 'WESTWARD' in Jersey in Jersey on your recommendation will be done in first class order.
It may be that I will decide to have two yachts in the Class, one for my son, so could you therefore tell me the following[:]
Are any of the Defenders for sale; if so, what is the price, and could you recommend me to get one or order a new boat. If the latter, what is the possibility of your Firm building me a boat to beat them all. What would be the cost delivered at the yard, or alternatively delivered Falmouth?
I note that you will be back in Bristol, R.I. in May, and please do not be surprised if I call to shake you by the hand and for a talk over my ship.
Kindly address me to my London address, c/o National Bank of South Africa, Circus Place, London Wall, London, E.C. 2.
We sail from here on the 7th February via the Suez Canal for Cannes.
With kind regards, ...
[In ink:] P.S. Please do not think my boastful. I only want you to know WESTWARD wants for nothing. She is my pet. [Incl NGH reply from Coconut Grove dated February 20, 1931:] My dear Mr Davis,
Your very interesting letter of 19th ult is just at hand, together with the very interesting photographs and copy of Mr. B. Heckstall-Smith's letter [from December 3, 1930].
I didnot know before seeing your photos you were such a competent engineer and interested in perfecting details of gear on WESTWARD, and that you had a private yard so to do all fitting out and making spars & sails yourself. It is very interesting!
The copy of Mr Heckstall Smith's letter and suggested reduced rig is very interesting but it seems to me he proposes to crop away too much and for so large [a] hulls as WESTWARDS and with so much wetted surface I would be afraid the yacht would be 'sluggish' in light and moderate breezes, the[?] ones you[?] conditions in the racing season, and that if they are putting a fair sized rig in BRITANNIA with a mast probably 170ft high she would outsail you in light to average breezes. In your letter you mention the WESTWARD is a very tender ship, which is somewhat of a surprise to me, as I supposed she was quite as able to carry her sail as the average of racing yachts. If you could put in complete hollow masts and save so much top weight I know you d[ou]ld find a great difference to stand up and carry her sail.
[Next paragraph crossed out:] As I figure it your present length of mainmast would entitle you to 11000 sqft sail and I hope you will take full advantage of it by lengthening foremast so to be able to carry a higher foretopsail and larger reaching & running sails. By arranging the foremast to be lengthened 13ft making it 125ft above deck. With booms 5 1/2 & 4ft above deck the calculated total [calculations] 11062.
The letter I sent you Jan 11 with sketch of sails considerably larger than you are trying I think w[ou]ld give the boat more lift in light weather and with lighter masts could carry it well in a breeze.
I can well realize the difficulties you have in getting work done in English yards on a foreign boat. I saw enough of it in two instances years ago when I went over with our craft.
In regard to your inquiries about purchasing one of the defenders or having a new craft built, I am entirely out of touch with this and I am now writing the manager of the H.M.C. Mr. Chas. G. Nystrom to send you direct the information.
It would be very pleasant indeed to meet you at Bristol and have a talk over WESTWARD and yachting matters. Our present plan is to visit Nassau and Bermuda on our way home and if this is carried out we (myself & wife) will not be home until the last week of May, and I hope that will not be too late. [Followed by scribbled mast height and sail area calculations.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32270. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1931-01-19.)
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"[Item Description:] Eight photos, primarily of #692s WESTWARD, sent by her owner T. B. Davis and annotated on the back by him: 1) taking foremast out with aid of racing mainboom, 2) hooking maintopmast staysail to stay, 3) WESTWARD in her winter quarter with her nose on caulk fenders on quay and a boat in foreground 'similar to that in which I earned my living as a boy of fourteen', 4) 'my idea of a main sheet bollard', 5) 'patent I made for our main sheet', 6) '30kn motorboat', 7) houses on deck of WESTWARD for winter use, 8) making our own mainmast with crew on Jersey on the quay, together with two envelopes." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. (creator). Photographs. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_33040. Subject Files, Folder 36, formerly 17-20. No date (sent with T.B.F. Davis letter 1931-01-19).)
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"[Item Transcription:] Enclosed you will find a copy of a cable [regarding #692s WESTWARD] we sent to Mr. Davis after receiving your kind letter of February 22nd.
I will tomorrow write you more in detail about what we are doing at our yard at present, but might tell you that everything is reasonably all right and that we all are well, and that we shall be glad to follow whatever instructions you care to give us regarding how we should proceed to get an order from Mr. Davis.
Very truly yours, ..." (Source: Nystrom, Charles G. (Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32460. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1931-02-24.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Many thanks for your letter of Jan 11th with drawing of WESTWARD's [#692s] new sail plan.
You are indeed good to give me all this information & advice.
Yes I agree with you that it is too late to attempt new marconi masts & sails this season. I am however reducing the bowsprit & main boom to the measurements you suggest to see what she will do this season. By using a topsail yard all the canvas outside a line from her ordinary topmast head to end of gaff does not count in this new measurement so I will do away with her present marconi topmast and use her yard.
You mention the masts. She had a new foremast in 1920 & I made a new mainmast for her 1928 and except for a little rot on the top part of the mast head it is as good as when you put it in and will make a good main boom for cruising at any time.
The masts now being made for the J class racers over this side are all steel so I will have steel masts for 'WESTWARD' next year & your suggested sail plan will be carried out if I find WESTWARD is not likely to be shut out, on acc[ount] of her being a schooner, because neither WESTWARD or myself are much liked by the yachting fraternity, because the boat is too fast and i do my own work.
Expense is absolutely no object to me but like all business men I like a business deal. There is however nothing that I would not do for WESTWARD independent of costs.
I do not know if I sent you a photo of some of my patents. one is the rollers for the spinnaker boom & with this we can handle our spinnaker boom quicker than the small boats.
The other is my patent main sheet stopper which is absolutely perfect. The wood inside is corrugated with a slight hollow to grip the mainsheet. [Sketch.]
I have written to your good people in Rhode Island about a new boat in case I am driven out with 'WESTWARD' from the racing.
I may come[?] over to America at any time in which case it will be my first duty to call on you.
With kind regards ..." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32410. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1931-03-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled calculations beginning with:] WESTWARD [#692s] --- 73100[?]
96ft l.w.l.
20%
19.2 log. 1.28330
3
7078.0 - 3.84990 ... [On verso of printed 'Notice of Annual Meeting' from Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation dated March 19, 1931]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Calculations. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0341. WRDT04, Folder 30, formerly MRDE09. No date (after 1931-03-19).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled draft letter on verso of Browning, King & Co. letter to NGH:] I have been intending writing you for sometime but put it off as I had in my carelessness mislaid your address.
I often think of the very pleasant visit you and Mrs gave us in June of last year and I hope both of you are well and have had a pleasant year.
The yachting about here was not as interesting the past two summers as formerly, due I suppose partly to the hard times and principally to the perfection of the internal combustion engine which has quite upset the old way of getting about by making the use of sails on vessels or being drawn by horses on shore sihu[?].
Unfortunately, I have not been much in touch of the racing about the British Isles and have never heard of what changes you may have made in the rig of WESTWARD [#692s], and the effect it had on her racing against the large yachts in England. Sometime when it is convenient to you to write me I would very much like to her.
My wife & myself stayed in Bristol last winter and expect to the coming winter as I am no longer fond of traveling and am awkward in getting about.
Mrs Herreshoff joins me in kindest regards to Mrs Davis and my very best to you.
Sincerely yours ..." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Davis, Thomas B.F. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32480. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1932-10-28.)
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"[Item Transcription:] It is indeed a great pleasure to receive a letter from you. I found yours of Oct 29th waiting for me when we reached Natal last week.
I note you are wintering at Rhode Island and if the cold weather is dry then i think the change will do you good. I remember so well spending some winters in Canada and the dry atmosphere was very healthy.
I thank you for your kind remembrances. I can assure[?] both Mrs Davis & myself often talk of the pleasant time we had with your goodself & family.
I note that yachting is very bad in America but I think it is worse on this side although the Woolworth General Manager has given Camper & Nicholson an order for a J Class boat. She will have to allow the BRITANNIA two minutes on 40 miles & I am sure BRITANNIA even on equal time will beat any of the J Class boats &[?] usnry[?] to windward in a strong breeze.
Then again on a reach her long waterline tells the tale.
Is it true that the WEETAMOE is coming over to race next[?] year[?] on these terms.
No I have not altered 'WESTWARD' except cut her down to cave[?] handicap because our class is so varied that it is a handicap class & must remain so if BRITANNIA is to win.
I hope I am handling your 'WESTWARD' to please you and I am herewith sending you an account of the first race our King had this year. [See newspaper clipping from the 'Natal Witness' titled 'Racing with the King. Durban Yachtsman's Duel with BRITTANIA. Storm-Driven 50 Mile Course --- And A Dead Heat!' by Arthur Lamsley.]
Could I persuade you to let me have plans for a J Class boat, because I am not going to be pushed out of racing if at any time 'WESTWARD' [#692s] is barred.
I am not taking the risk to pay for plans on this side as I know they would give me a dud if only to may me out for the many laughs I have had over them with 'WESTWARD'. I would not trust them on this side to make or do anything for my boat.
No doubt you have seen the many articles in the 'Yachting & Motor Boating' about our sails and hear, masts, etc made by my crew. There has not been even one adverse comment.
We are sailing for England on the 20th March. So with kind regards & the best of all good wishes to you & yours in which Mrs Davis joins ...
[P.S. in left margin of 1st page:] Will you kindly tell me which is the boest of the two boats ENTERPRISE or YANKEE. [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32510. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1932-12-22.)
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"[Item Description:] Newspaper clipping from the 'Natal Witness' titled 'Racing With the King. Durban Yachtsman's Duel with BRITTANIA. Storm-Driven 50 Mile Course --- And A Dead Heat!' by Arthur Lamsley describing a race in the Solent in which T.B. Davis's schooner #692s WESTWARD competed against the British King's sloop BRITTANIA. Sent by T.B.F. Davis to NGH with letter of December 22, 1932." (Source: Lamsley, Arthur (creator). Newspaper Clipping. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32560. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. No date (sent with T.B. Davis letter 1932-12-22).)
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"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in pencil and ink) table titled 'Examples in Formulating Measurement Rule, Sept 1933' and providing data for LOA, LWL, Length quarter beam plane, Q.B.L., Mean beam, Draft, Freeboard, Displacement, Sail Ara, Rating by Universal Rule, Corrected length, Sailing Length, Power Number Pn, Draft Limits for Racing and Cruising Yachts and others for a #722s KATOURA, #692s WESTWARD, #719s VAGRANT, #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I, #499s COLUMBIA, #725s RESOLUTE, New York 50 Class, #703s FLYING CLOUD, New York 30 Class, #461s COCK ROBIN, #732s SADIE, and Buzzards Bay 15 Class. Undated (part of NGH's Power number (Pn) measurement rule from September 1933)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_74060. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F09, formerly MRDE15. No date (ca1933-09).)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Holiday Greeting telegram from Point Natal, South Africa:] Best wishes Xmas New Year. Davis. [Incl NGH penciled draft reply dated December 31, 1933:] We thank you kindly for your Xmas telegram and in return send you our sincere wish for a Happy New Year and success in all your undertakings.
We are all fairly well here. My son Sidney who was married soon after you were here now has two boys --- two & two thirds and one-third years old. My active days are about over, but take interest in things going on.
The Herreshoff Mfg Co. is just starting construction on a new America's Cup Defender [#1233s RAINBOW] from Starling Burgess' design. There appears to be but little interest in large yacht racing, and there is much difficulty in getting capital to build this one boat when formerly several were built.
I didn't see detail acc[oun]ts of WESTWARD's [#692s] sailing the last two years, but hope she did well for a quarter century old craft." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. (incl NGH reply). Telegram to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32590. Subject Files, Folder 34, formerly 17-20. 1933-12-(24 ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] I thought you would like to know what I have been doing with your beautiful 'WESTWARD' [#692s].
I found there is not the least chance of having any more racing on this side & as there is not enough money to buy her from me I am using her for cruising, but I have not cut her down in any way.
My crew has put two 70 HP Ailsa Craig Diesel 48.72 in her one last year & one this year. We bolted the brackets to the strengthened plates tapping in the bolts so as in the event of the brackets being knocked off the water cannot get in. We can take out the whole being[?] shoot[?] & have her ready for racing in three hours.
We carry up the exhaust up over the rail. We got six knots last year with one engine & I presume we will get another three with the second engine.
There is a very good article as the engine suppliers advert in the Yachting World 7/8/36.
Hoping you will not be annoyed at what I have.
Yours very sincerely ...
P.S. We go up the Norwegian fjords each year & I found it very difficult without an engine & then one was not much good without fur[?].
Hope you are both well ... [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32940. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-05-14.)
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"[Item Description:] Newspaper clipping from the Telegraph (England) of August 8, 1934 titled 'WESTWARD [#692s] Triumphs in the King's Cup at Cowes. Big Schooner Sailed Home by Owner's Daughter. Welsheda's Tow', authored by Major B. Heckstall-Smith. Wonderful account of T.B.F. Davis' schooner #692s WESTWARD winning the King's Cup over VELSHEDA, CANDIDA, ASTRA, SHAMROCK V and the King's BRITTANIA. Praise of vessel, description of owner's daughter steering her over the finish line, Velsheda being "towed" for a quarter of an hour on Westward's stern wake. Incl envelope from England (apparently not from T.B.F. Davis) to NGH, postmarked August 8, 1934." (Source: Heckstall-Smith, B. (creator). Newspaper Clipping. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32620. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-08-08.)
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"[Item Transcription:] You would have been proud of your ship [#692s WESTWARD] had you seen her winning the King's Cup on Tuesday. It was a glorious race and 'WESTWARD' went like a bird.
I am very fond of my boat and she is as good as the day she was built. We attend to her every winter and we have had all the lining down twice since I have had her.
With kind regards to Mrs Herreshoff & self in which Mrs Davis joins ... [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32640. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-08-10.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On 'Simpson Benzie, Chronometer Watch and Clock Maker, Nautical Jeweller, Silversmith & c.' stationery:] I telephoned to Gosport to-day to endeavour to make an appointment with you re the model of 'WESTWARD' [#692s] but am informed that you are not aboard.
Mr Nicholson advises me that they are not in possession of the lines of 'WESTWARD' and suggests that Herreshoff's would let us have sufficient information far the purpose in hand. As you so kindly offered to write to them if Mr Nicholson had not the details, I feel sure you will agree that your application would be much more likely to have the desired result than if I wrote.
If possible I should like the lines on a scale of one-eighth of an inch to the foot, and I think it would be as well to advise then that the lines are required only for the purpose of a silver model and will be treated in confidence. If you think it helpful, you could assure them that both Mr. Nicholson and Mr Fife have given me such details of their newest ships for the same purpose.
It would save time if, in the event of their giving the information, the lines could be sent direct to me.
Your wishes shall have the best attention of ..." (Source: Benzie, B[ruce]. Letter to Davis, Thomas B.F. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32710. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-08-22.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I was very pleased to get your letter of the 17th inst. [which is quoted in Hamilton-Adams book 'The Racing Schooner WESTWARD' on p. 96: Dear Mr. Davis
A friend has sent me a cutting from the London Telegraph of August 8th, by Heckstall-Smith, of WESTWARD's (#692s) triumph in the race for the King's Cup and I want to send you my congratulations and say how pleased I am at the result.
It was WESTWARD's day and she proved her ability and the fine handling she is getting. The scene at the finish when your daughter was steering must have been wonderful indeed and I wish I could have been there to see it.
Nicholson has turned out a beautiful vessel in ENDEAVOUR, and it looks like a real job to retain the America's Cup this time. Mrs Herreshoff joins me in kindest regards to Mrs Davis and yourself, and I want to express my admiration at the skill you have displayed in the upkeep and fitting out of WESTWARD with your crewmen. Sincerely yours, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.] I herewith send you a photo of WESTWARD winning the race, the weather was squally, consequently the photo is dark.
I am sorry there are wrinkles in our fore topsail clew due to the fact that the tack was not down, I overlooked this.
As regards the medium jib topsail you will see the tack is lifting being close to the wind.
All these sails are made by my crew, the mainsail being new this year. You will see it is fairly full because she just loves a full cut sail.
We won the Gold Cup also at Ryde but it is a Challenge Cup and carried with it a large silver model presented by the Commodore Sir William Burton and so sure were the Committee that WESTWARD had no chance that the model was a very fine J Class boat in silver. It was a beautiful piece of work standing thirty inches high or more.
This was no good to me as I wanted 'WESTWARD' & this Sir William Burton [h]as instructed the Silversmith to do with the result that Benzie says he cannot do with credit to his firm unless he has some of the lines of 'WESTWARD'.
I herewith enclose a letter which explains the position & I wonder if you would give them a rough idea. Sir William Burton has commissioned Alfred Mylne to call on you as he is on way to America to witness the race.
I note what you say about the ENDEAVOUR but she did not show great legs on this side and as a matter of fact the old ASTRA is at the top of the class this year. Of course it is not a fair test in this side particularly for WESTWARD when it is 40 miles on[?] these[?] rounds sometimes twelve buoys to round and the Committee always waits until the first gun is fired give us the most turning to windward. Any how we are always worrying them and they call her the 13.[?] schooner even the king.
We will probably go to America next year and hope to call on you and Mrs. Herreshoff.
Yours v[ery] sincerely ...
I wish you would let m have plans for a J class boat to be called WESTWARD II. I would get Mylne to build her." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32680. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-08-24.)
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"[Item Description:] Two sets of penciled pantograph hull sections (two of them crossed out) on sans-serif 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. Titled 'WESTWARD [#692s]. Sept[ember] 23, 1934. Scale 1/8in per ft. 20ft spaces B to F with 2ft each end over 96ft w.l. End spaces 15ft'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_06690. Folder [no #]. 1934-09-23.)
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"[Item Transcription:] It is indeed nice of you to reply to my letter and to say you will make me a model of 'WESTWARD' [#692s].
You can rest assured that it will have a prominent position in our London home.
Will you please send it direct to Mr. Benzie, Jeweller, Cowes I[sle] of W[ight] as I may be away on our voyage to S. Africa when it arrives as we sail on the 15th Nov.
I cabled you as follows
'Thanks letter would much appreciate WESTWARD model. Armful of gratitude, our best wishes self & wife.'
We have just returned from the big launch [of RMS QUEEN MARY on September 26, 1934] and it all went off like a clock. It was a beautiful piece of work. There is going to be great rivalry between QUEEN MARY and NORMANDIE so we must wait the results.
I am very sorry to see the yacht race end up in such a very unpleasant way. I will be much surprised if anyone else will challenge again in our time.
We race over here for the fun of it and all owners have a thought for the other. I am sure if I had been racing against Vanderbilt either on mast or both would have been pulled out and sent by the board, his bluff would not have worked.
This is going to be a great blow to yachting.
Hoping to see you both next year & with kind regards from Mrs Davis and yours very truly ... [Incl photo of the gold centenary King's Cup, presented by George V at the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta on August 8, 1934. (The first King's Cup was presented to the Squadron by William IV in 1834. The Cup is part of the Davis collection of the Société Jersiaise in St Helier in the Channel Islands today.] [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32730. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-10-03.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Handwritten (in ink) letter on 'Thomas B. F. Davis. British East and South Africa' stationery:]
My dear Mr. Herreshoff
I have your letter of 27th with enclosures about WHIRLWIND.
Certain business I have on hand first[?] now preclude me from purchasing an American built boat but somehow I would not like to take the risk of buying WHIRLWIND whereas anything that you would design would sure to be right.
You mentioned our fore topsail [for #692s WESTWARD], not being on hoops to keep it close to the topmast. I found that I could not drill or men into dipping the tack &[?] sheet so I have two topsails which goes up on two stays, one stay goes seso[?] feet about the cap and this pulls the sail to the mast and as we [p. 2] draught our sails for this method of setting the topsails act very well. In the photo you[?] will[?] on the sheet is not home by two or three feet and the tack is not closer owing to the wind being free and quite strong but it does not look right and it takes a photo to show up the mistake. We can get our fore topsail as flat as a board because the halyard & tack are on capstans and the sheet on a tackle.
We are making four jib topsails, one Yankee jib topsail, one topmast staysail and a big jib so this will keep my two me fairly busy this winter besides overhauling the other sails.
With kind regards to Mrs. Herreshoff & self from[?] in which Mrs. Davis joins
Yours V[ery] sincerely ...
[Incl. NGH draft reply:] I have the little model of WESTWARD finished and am sending it to Mr. Benzie as you requested by parcel post.
I wrote Mr Benzie the model is intended for you and when he is thru to send it to you to address you give. In the letter to Mr. Benzie I am sending him a pencil sketch of WESTWARD's profile & deck line and a set of templates I used in making the little model --- all at scale of 1/8 per ft. With these he will only need the model to look at and it will not be necessary to dismount it from the back board as all he w[ou]ld need on[?] working the form[?] for[?] silver smith.
I thank you kindly for your cablegram and two letters gilleamge[?], one of which containing a photo of the Gold Cup.
I am interested what you say about using duplicate fore gaff topsails for port & starboard tacks. I may be wrong, but it is my impression the extra windage of duplicate gear all around, and loss of efficiency of sail due to gap between mast & sail handicaps it entirely[?], and may as well be not used at all. The photo also reveals the leaches of the sails are a little hard and I am wondering if your sailmakers narrow seam the sails at each seam when sewing up the cloths. We found this necessary and had various battens with curved edges to mark the variation from the [p. 2] regular sewing seam. It is of course gradual --- the marking beginning only about 6ft in on a sail the size of WESTWARD's mainsail and may not be over 3/16in per seam at leach, but depends on the stretchiness of the canvass.
Referring to your comments about the protests in the America Cup Race, perhaps you have gained a wrong impression from the press reports. I have seen and talked with some of the afterguard on RAINBOW [#1233s] and also with others who were in position to see plainly the relative position of the two and it is quite positive RAINBOW had gained an overlap before Sopwith luffed, and the[?] was too late in the attempt to head RAINBOW off. Sopwith attempted something he had no right to do, morally or by the rules. Due no doubt, to attempting to sail such big boats single handed when he should have the help of the so called 'afterguard'." (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32770. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-10-04.)
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"[Item Description:] [Cablegram from London:] Thanks letter would much appreciate WESTWARD [#692s] model am full of gratitude our best wishes self and wife. [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Cablegram to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32660. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-10-22.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I have duly received the half-model of 'WESTWARD' [#692s]
and thank you for so kindly sending it to me. You can be sure that I shall take every care of it and deliver it to Mr Davis in good order.
Mr Davis has already given me the necessary information regarding the rig and has permitted me to take all the details I required on deck, so I think I am well equipped to proceed with the work now.
It may interest you to know that I have just completed a silver model of 'ENDEAVOUR' which the Corporation of Gosport have given to Mr. Charles Nicholson on his being made the first Honorary Freeman of the Borough; Mr. Nicholson has kindly expressed to me his approval of my work.
May I add that it gives me the greatest pleasure to have the opportunity to reproduce in Silver the wonderful schooner 'WESTWARD' of your creation; I have made many models of various types of modern yachts including His Majesty's 'BRITANNIA', but I have been wanting for many years to reproduce the 'WESTWARD' as I am sure she will make a beautiful piece of work. In fact, Mr. Davis gave all the details in his possession some years ago for that purpose, but I have not previously been able to make the model for lack of the lines of the hull, so you will appreciate the pleasure I shall have in the work. I will send a photograph of the model when it is completed.
With my grateful thanks, ... [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Benzie, B[ruce]. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32860. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-11-10.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Many thanks for your letter of 24 ult. I am waiting to hear from Benzie [the jeweler in Cowes charged with making a silver model of #692s WESTWARD] when he receives the model.
It is indeed very good of you to take the trouble to make the model which I will treasure.
As soon as the silver model is finished I will send you a photo but I am inclined to think it will take a year to complete this model & I should say Benzie will be able to retire on his profit.
Gafftopsails[:] I take fine care not to stop my ship when setting these sails. We do not touch this sail until WESTWARD is around and on her course then both sheet & halyard leads along the weather side of the deck and with twenty men on the halyard & ten or more on the sheet all running along the deck the sail is in its place whilst you are looking at it and everybody sitting down.
Then when you are ready to go about at the word 'down topsail' both halyard & sheet are let go & the sail is on deck whilst you count five. Otherwise I want to know the reason why.
Of course if we are short tacking we do not set it. We do not attempt to handle this sail in stays. We wait until we can hoist it up on the lee side of foresail. The yachtsmen here say they first see the topsail & when they turn their heads it isn't there & when they turn their heads again it is up again. I can assure I don't let your ships suffer through bad handling.
You can rest assured our sails are equal to the best that Ratseys can make. Otherwise there are lots over here ready to criticize the owner that dares to make & draft[?] his own sails. My sailmakers are members of my crew (I have two). My head man as been round the Horn in sailing ships. He is a fine worker if you will send me the measurements of your mainsail I will make you one. I only want the luff, foot & leach. If you have no boat will you do me a favour and secretly get me the sail plan of Mr Kung's[? Keeng's?] boat, he owns the hotel. I owe him a present and I would live to give him a surprise. Then you could see our work, making us one America's good men.
The fir" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32810. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-11-11.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [On Union-Castle Line, SS 'Durham Castle' stationery:] Your letter of 22nd ult. was sent on to me to 'Angola'.
We left London on the 15th ult. for West Africa and are now on our way to Durban and will leave there again the middle of March for London, then on to Jersey to fit our WESTWARD [#692s].
I am very glad that you have sent me the sizes of the sail of Mr Kung's[? Keeg's?] boat. I will draft[?] these and get my sailmakers to make them & you will be able to see the class of work we do for 'WESTWARD'. I do not know if Mr. Kung[?] likes a flat or a slack sail but I will make them full and he can take the fullness out if he likes.
I find 'WESTWARD' does not like a flat sail and we giver her first the flow she likes. Ships are queer things one never knows what they want & I suppose that is why they are called she's. You would just love to see 'WESTWARD'. She is a good as the day she was launched. She is to be surveyed by Lloyd's this coming spring, but they needn't bother. She is up to the mark. We are making a full set of head sails this winter.
With kind regards to Mrs Herreshoff & your goodself in which Mrs Davis joins, ...
Will send the new sail over in May. Please see that Kung[?] does not make any new sails. [Incl greetings card with black ribbon and burgee of the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club with photo of WESTWARD labeled in the photo 'Our Vice Commodore's Schooner 'WESTWARD' winning the King's Cup Aug. 1924' and printed greetings 'With the Season's Greetings and All Good Wishes from (signed) T.B. Davis.'] [Incl envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32890. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1934-12-24.)
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"[Item Transcription:] This is just to say that I have returned from S. Africa and that the sails will be on their way to Mr Kung[? Keeng?] almost immediately.
Of course I do not know if Mr. Kung[?] likes a flat or baggy sail. I prefer the latter as the first mainsail we made for 'WESTWARD' [#692s] was too flat & I knew she felt it so last year we made another & I saw to it that my crew gave a better flow and how she walked along to win the Gold Cup at Ryde to the surprise of everyone.
Benzie [the jeweler in Cowes] has finished the silver model four feet high & I must say it is a lovely piece of work. I hope to send you a photo later on.
We will be doing all the Solent races again this year but I will not race at the out ports because they all have this three round business and this is unfair to a big ship like 'WESTWARD' and I am not prepared to race to her detriment. We have had too much of this in the past.
Hoping you and your good lady are well & Mrs Davis joins me ... " (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_32980. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1935-04-10.)
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"[Item Transcription:] When at Cowes I secured from the Jewellers [Benzie] the beautiful model you made of 'WESTWARD' [#692s].
I am taking this out to Durban to put in my office for my South African friends to see.
It is indeed a beautiful piece of work
I would like to tell you how very well Benzies copied her in silver.
I am sending you under separate cover a photo of WESTWARD winning at Cowes the only day there was a suitable wind. All the rest of the ten days it was light variable winds. All sails cut by me and made by crew.
Wish all good wishes from Mrs. Davis & self to Mrs Herreshoff & your goodself ... [Incl undated (1935) clipping from an unidentified newspaper (The Telegraph?) titled 'WESTWARD's' Triumph over Big Cutters. Schooner Beats Endeavour by More Than 10min in Cowes Race.' by Major B. Heckstall-Smith.] [Incl. envelope.]" (Source: Davis, Thomas B.F. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_33000. Subject Files, Folder 35, formerly 17-20. 1935-09-11.)
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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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"[Item Description:] Hulls, anchors and pipe berth cut-out models and diagrams. Among others deckline cut-outs for BETTY ANN, #300p SHADOW III, NOMAD, Fishers Island 31-footer, Fishers Island 23-footer, Sub Chaser 110ft x 18ft, 11ft-6in Boat [built from Plan] 76-17 [now named Plan 28-21] (76-33 [now named Plan 28-23]) for Mr Tiffany's #934 [HARLEQUIN] [this may be a reference to #191901es], 18ft-9in Launch [#191002ep] used on #692 [WESTWARD], 14ft Rowboat [#190912es] [built from Plan] 76-14 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 19ft-4 1/2in x 5ft-4in Launch [#191304ep] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 14ft-8in Gasoline Launch [#190307ep] for 590 [#590s INGOMAR], 10ft-3in Boat [# ?] for 376 [#376p ESLOMA], 18ft Dories [#191729es] for #323 [SP-2840], #293 [Power Launch for #215p ROAMER], Vosper [Torpedo Boats built from 1943 - 1944), AMC Minesweeper [#411p, #412p, #413p, #414p], 16ft-10in x 5ft-1in [#191307es Colonia Sailing Cutter] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 711 Class [New York 50s], [dinghies #191308es and #191309es] for #722 [KATOURA], 12ft [dinghy #191106es ?] for 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 25ft-10in x 6ft-1in [built from Plan] 2-83 [#191301ep Owner Launch for #722s Katoura], 11ft-0in Rowboat [# ?] between davits on #251 [LANG SYNE] Feb [19]06, 23ft-4in x 6ft-4in [#287p Stock launch later Crew Launch for #722s KATOURA]. Generally undated, the last vessels referred to appear to date from 1944." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.130. Cut-out Models and Diagrams. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Models and Diagrams. No date (1944 and earlier).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #692s Westward even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Taglang, Jacques. Mariette and the Herreshoff Schooners. Two vols. Eynesse, 2010.
  Vessel biographies, large-scale sail and lines plans reproduced from original HMCo plans. The definitive book on Herreshoff schooners.
• Heckstall-Smith, B. Westward Triumphs In The King's Cup At Cowes. Big Schooner Sailed Home By Owner's Daughter. Velsheda's Tow. The Telegraph (England), August 8, 1934. Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Correspondence Folder 35 (new), 17-20 (old). (1,072 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: No known copyright restrictions. Wonderful account of T.B.F. Davis' schooner #692s Westward winning the King's Cup over Velsheda, Candida, Astra, Shamrock V and the King's Brittania. Praise of vessel, description of owner's daughter steering her over the finish line, Velsheda being "towed" for a quarter of an hour on Westward's stern wake.
• Hamilton-Adams, C. P. The Racing Schooner Westward. London, 1976.
  Exhaustive vessel biography.

• Westward (HMCo-made index card)
• Westward (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: Westward
Type: Schooner
Length: 96'
Owner: Cochran, A. S.

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

• Westward
• 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: Westward
Type: 96' schooner
Owner: Alexander S. Cochran
Row No.: 754

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
Day: 1
Year: 1908 [sic, i.e. 1909]
E/P/S: S
No.: 0692
Name: Westward
LW: 96'
B: 26' 8"
D: 16' 11"
Rig: Schr.
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 118000.00
Last Name: Cochran
First Name: A. S.

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.

"Owned from 1910 to 1911 by Alexander S. Cochran of New York, from 1914 - ca. 1919 by Norddeutscher Regatta Verein of Hamburg, Germany, from 1919 to 1924 by Clarence Charles Hatry of England, in 1924 by Warwick Brookes of England, and from 1924 to 1947 T. B. [Thomas Benjamin Frederick] Davis of England, who specified in his will her to be scuttled if no one was to sail and maintain her after his death. A replica of Westward, Eleonara, was launched in 2000." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 2, 2008.)

"Built to compete under the International Rule." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 7, 2009.)

"A replica, named Eleonora, was launched in the Netherlands on March 30, 2000." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 11, 2009.)

"Built in 181 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $652/day, 2585 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"[Sail area info.]" (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.)

"Displacement 7310 cu.ft. [= 467,840 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.)

"[Displacement (7310 cubic feet = 467,840 lbs).] (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.)

"[Displacement at 96ft w.l. and 26.7ft beam = 475,050 lbs[sic] = 7310cuft.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Penciled untitled note with comparative weight data for large Herreshoff-designed schooners thought to be dated December 13, 1922 or later. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.)

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