HMCo #698s Vagrant

"[1910-03-15] Tue 15: Harold Vanderbilt here to talk about a small schooner [#698s Vagrant].
[1910-03-18] Fri 18: ... Went to Cambridge[?] to see H. S. Vanderbilt about schooner [#698s Vagrant] & then to Fanueil. ...
[1910-03-20] Sun 20: At work on model [for #698s Vagrant] nearly all day.
[1910-03-22] Tue 22: Harold S. Vanderbilt gives order for 56' w[ater]l[ine] cruising schooner [#698s Vagrant] to be delivered July 2.
[1910-03-29] Tue 29: H. S. Vanderbilt here [to observe construction of #698s Vagrant]. ...
[1910-04-21] Thu 21: Began setting up frames on #698 (Vanderbilt sch[ooner]) [Vagrant]. ...
[1910-05-11] Wed 11: 698 [#698s Vagrant] planked up to cabin floor beams. ...
[1910-06-15] Wed 15: Launched #698, Vagrant. Had both mast[s] stepped in 40 m[inutes] from time of starting.
[1910-06-16] Thu 16: Standing rigging all in place on 699 [sic. #699s would be the sonder boat Bibelot. More likely is #698s Vagrant which had been launched the previous day].
[1910-06-19] Sun 19: Had trial of Vagrant [#698s] in p.m. Very satisfying.
[1911-07-24] Mon 24: ... Vagrant [#698s] here. ...
[1915-08-05] Thu 5: ... Leave [at] 9:15 and go outside to see Astor Cup Races. Queen Mab (Vagrant I [#698s]) and Samuri [#716s] won. We stay in Newport over night.
[1923-05-19] Sat 19: ... Launch[ed] Queen Mab [#698s ex-Vagrant I]. ...
[1923-05-30] Wed 30: ... Took sail with Mr. [Nathaniel] Ayer in Queen Mab [#698s ex-Vagrant I] in p.m.
[1923-06-08] Fri 8: ... Queen Mab's [#698s ex-Vagrant I] main mast strengthened, stepped & left.
[1925-09-15] Tue 15: ... Queen Mab [ex-Vagrant I #698s] arrives to lay up.
[1936-05-11] Mon 11: ... Queen Mab [ex-Vagrant, #698s] launched.
[1936-05-23] Sat 23: ... Queen Mab [ex-Vagrant #698s] --- Com[modore] W.A.W. Stewart --- left [in] early a.m.
[1936-08-24] Mon 24: ... Queen Mab [ex-Vagrant I, #698s] laid up. ..." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1910 to 1936. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"No. 698 [#698s].
Composite Construction.
Frame spaces 19 1/2".
Rail height (R) is to under side of rail capping.
Sheer height (S) is to upper side of deck.
Planking & deck 1 7/8".
Keel 6" thick, 2" below rabbate.
Stern & overhangs sided 6 1/2" (Changes to 6" with wood ends of planking reduced to 1 3/4".)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in pencil and ink) note in Offset Booklet HH.4.172.] March 1910. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"In 1910, the fine schooner WESTWARD was built for A. S. Cochran to race abroad. ... WESTWARD was immediately followed by setting up VAGRANT (QUEEN MAB) for Harold Vanderbilt, [a] fifty-six feet [waterline] composite schooner." (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.)

"N. G. HERRESHOFF 6 WALLEY STREET BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND May 12, 1936. {1936/05/12} Dear Francis, ... 'Queen Mab' is just launched and will be Flag-ship of New York Y.C. Swan has looked up her record, finding over 180 prizes to her credit, of which nearly 120 were 'firsts' [Vertical note in left margin] ... Your affect Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 12: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"... we must go back to 1910 again for late that winter, after 'Westward' was well under way, Harold Vanderbilt, who was then a student at Harvard Law School, ordered from Captain Nat a small composite-built schooner which was completed very rapidly. I think she was put together in about two months although she lasted well. This was the first 'Vagrant' whose general dimensions were: L.O.A., seventy-six feet; L.W.L., fifty-six feet; beam, seventeen feet six inches; draft, ten feet six inches. At that time Harold Vanderbilt was not much of a racing man and he used her mostly for cruising, but right after World War I, when owned by Nathaniel F. Ayer and under the name of 'Queen Mab,' she came out with a new rig designed by Captain Nat that had a leg-o'-mutton mainsail, and I believe was about the first American schooner with track and slides on the luff of mainsail ... Captain Nat was the first to develop a satisfactory track and slide for a vessel of this type, and 'Queen Mab' did very well in racing for the next few years although originally she had been built mostly for cruising." (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. 279-280.)

"Harold Stirling Vanderbilt has placed an order with the Herreshoffs for a seventy-foot racing and cruising yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt, who, while still a Harvard undergraduate, owned and raced the forty-five-foot Trivia, a Herreshoff production, launched in 1902, wants a bigger boat with both racing and ocean cruising capabilities.
The terms of the order were that the new craft must be ready to go into commission before the end of next June, when her owner intends to use her for an extended cruise in foreign waters. She will be constructed of wood, with oaken keel and timbers, hard pine planking, and a teak deck. Her water line length will be fifty-seven feet, with moderate overhangs.
Her crew will consist of seven men, sufficient to handle her contemplated spread of 7,000 square feet of canvas. She will not be much, if at all, over six feet in draught and will be schooner rigged." (Source: Anon. "New Vanderbilt Yacht. Harold Gives Herreshoffs an Order for a Seventy-Footer." New York Times, March 30, 1910, p. 13.)

"The lead keel was run this morning at the south shop of the Herrrehoff Manufacturing Company, for the new 56 foot cruising schooner, to be built for Harold Vanderbilt." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, April 8, 1910, p. 2.)

"The schooner yacht ordered by Mr. Harold S. Vanderbilt, N. Y. Y. C., from the Herreshoff Mfg. Co., of Bristol, R. I., is designed for cruising service only. She will not take part in any races.
The new vessel will be 76 ft. over all, 56 ft. on the water line, 17 ft. 6 in. beam and IO ft. 6 in. draft.
As Mr. Vanderbilt desires a comfortable vessel above all things, she will be of very liberal freeboard, and laid out below deck in large, thoroughly ventilated and conveniently arranged rooms. Butternut and mahogany will be the finishing woods.
Her sail spread will be moderate. The published statement that she will be given something like 7,000 sq. ft. of canvas is misleading. Said Capt. N. G Herreshoff, the designer of the yacht : 'The canvas Mr. Vanderbilt's new schooner will carry will hardly be one-half of the 7,000 sq. ft. which imaginative people have said that she will be given. The yacht will be a cruising vessel simply, with all the comforts and the conveniences that her dimensions will allow.' The yacht will be ready for delivery the latter part of June." (Source: Anon. "New Vanderbilt Schooner." Nautical Gazette, April 14, 1910, p. 259.)

"BRISTOL, R I. April 30 [1910] --- Harold S. Vanderbilt's cruising schooner is to have speed by the layout of the model, as noted the past week. The frames were set up the past week, with the exception of a small section aft, which will go up as soon as the sternboard is fitted. The boat will be ready the latter part of June." (Source: Anon. "Bristol Notes." Boston Globe, May 1, 1910, p. 57.)

"Harold S. Vanderbilt, of the New York Yacht Club, has entered his new schooner Vagrant in the Bermuda race of the Atlantic Yacht Club. Vagrant is now being built at the Herreshoff shops in Bristol, and work is being rushed so as to have her ready for the long ocean brush to the Lily Isles. The craft is almost planked on the outside, and it is believed that she will be ready long before June 25, the scheduled date of the starting of the race.
It is the first time that young Vanderbilt has entered a long ocean race; in fact, it is the first time that any member of the Vanderbilt family has entered the Bermuda contest. The young yachtsman is an excellent sailor, however, who has had many years of experience on the water. In his college days at Harvard he roamed the coast from Grand Manan to Cape Henry in the sloop yacht Trivia [#580s], another Herreshoff creation with quite a turn of speed. ..." (Source: Anon. "Vagrant Entered For Bermuda Race." Nautical Gazette, June 2, 1910, p. 376.)

"BRISTOL, R.I., June 15 [1910] --- The Vagrant, a schooner yacht built for Harold Vanderbilt of New York, was successfully launched here to-day. The boat embraces both the cruising and racing types, and is entered in the Atlantic Yacht Club's ocean race from New York to Bermuda, on June 25." (Source: Anon. "H. Vanderbilt's Vagrant Launched." New York Times, June 16, 1910, p. 11.)

"[Abstract of register or enrollment. Pos. 943:]
Vagrant, schooner yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1910.
63.60 gross tons, 49 net tons, 62.8 ft. x 17.8 ft. x 11.4 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, two masts, overhanging head [bow].
Enr[olled] and Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) June 16, 1910. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: N. G. Herreshoff, Bristol. ([Record at:] C[ustom] H[ouse, Providence]).
Enr[olled] and Lic[ensed] ([as] yacht) June 25, 1910. Owner: Harold S. Vanderbilt of New York, N.Y. Master: E. M. Perham.
Surrendered [license] Feb. 24, 1911 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. Vagrant.)

"Harold S. Vanderbilt's new schooner yacht Vagrant was given a trial spin Friday [June 17, 1910] and gave satisfaction to her designer Nat Herreshoff. Mr. Vanderbilt was not on board but is expected to take the boat to New York tomorrow." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, June 21, 1910, p. 2.)

"Work of rigging and fitting the new schooner yacht Vagrant, which was launched at Herreshoffs' yard at Bristol last week, has been hurried, and there promises to be no let-up until Harold S. Vanderbilt, the owner, has had the boat transferred to him, so as to start in the Atlantic Yacht Club's Bermuda race on next Saturday [June 21, 1910] afternoon. It was the original intention to have the Vagrant ready for trial to-day, and then send her to New York to-morrow to be fitted with stores for the Bermuda race.
It was part of the plan to allow the entire finishing of the interior of the cabins and other work below decks to remain until the off-shore race for which purpose the craft was built is over and the Vagrant returns from the South. Only the work most necessary for carrying sail and enduring the seas between the New England coast and Bermuda was to be hurried along, the owner and his friends accommodating themselves to such conditions on board as are found ready." (Source: Anon. "Hurry Work On Vagrant. Vanderbilt's New Yacht Must Be Ready to Race on Saturday. " New York Times, June 21, 1910, p. 11.)

"The schooner yacht Vagrant, owned by Harold Vanderbilt, which has been undergoing repairs at the Herreshoff boat shops, sailed Wednesday [July 27, 1910] for Newport, where her owner will board her for a cruise." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, July 29, 1910, p. 2.)

"No. 4513 --- For Sale --- At a reasonable figure, modern keel flush deck schooner yacht, Vagrant, 76 ft. 9 in. o. a., 56 ft. 6 in. w. I., 17 ft. 6 in. beam, 10 ft. 8 in. draught. Designed and built by Herreshoff in 1910; 28 tons of lead ballast. Has two complete suits of working sails, full set of light sails, two spinnakers and two ballooners; spinnaker pole and club topsail; one suit new, 1912, by Ratsey. Commodious owner's quarters, consisting of large saloon with sofa accommodations for three, two staterooms, one having two berths; two w.c.'s and washroom in which a bath could easily be installed. Good size galley, captain's room and forecastle with six berths. Headroom 6 ft. 6 in. Carries two boats, one 12-ft. dinghy and 14-ft. sailboat with centerboard. 775-gal. water tank. Run with crew of six. Equipment complete and of the very best. Yacht in excellent condition and has been very successful in racing, as well as being a very able and seaworthy cruiser. Winner of New York-Bermuda 1910 Race, and of many of the squadron runs of the New York and Eastern Y. C. cruises. This is an exceptional opportunity to purchase the best of the smaller schooner yachts. Further particulars, plans, etc., from Tarns, Lemoine & Crane, 52 Pine Street, New York City." (Source: Rudder, March 1913, p. 196.)

"... Harold S. Vanderbilt has sold his first schooner Vagrant, along with five cups that the vessel won in past contests, to Hendon Chubb of the New York Yacht Club. The Vagrant was designed and built by Herreshoff in 1910. She is 76 feet over all, 55 feet waterline, 17 feet 6 inches beam, and 10 feet 8 inches draft. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes of The Week's Log." Boston Globe, February 15, 1914, p. 39.)

"... Tams, Lemoine & Crane announce that they have sold Commodore H. S. Vanderbilt's schooner Vagrant, the first of that name, to Hudson [sic, i.e. Hendon] Chubb, of the Atlantic Yacht Club. Vagrant is 76 feet long overall, was built by Herreshoff in 1910, and in that year won the Bermuda race." (Source: Anon. "Some Recent Yacht Sales." Yachting, March 1914, p. 170.)

"... The schooner Vagrant, recently purchased by Hendon Chubb from Harold S. Vanderbilt, has been renamed Queen Mab. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Daily Globe, March 1, 1914, p. 37.)

"Nathaniel F. Ayer of the Eastern Yacht Club, who purchased last year from Robert Saltonstall the 45-foot waterline auxiliary schooner Carolina, has sold this yacht to H. G. MacDougall of the Boston Yacht Club. He has replaced the Caroline by the purchase of the 57-foot waterline schooner Queen Mab from Reginald C. Robbins of Boston. The Queen Mab was the first Vagrant, built by Herreshoff for Harold S. Vanderbilt in 1910. Both transactions, were made through the agency of John G. Alden." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, April 24, 1921, p. 57.)

"... Rear Commodore Nathaniel P. Ayer's racing schooner Queen Mab was put over from Herreshoff's at Bristol the first of last week. This schooner appears this season with an entirely new rig, as she has been given a jib-headed mainsail. Her owner is the first to try this so-called 'Marconi' rig on a two sticker. It has proved much faster with single masted yachts and should likewise add speed to a schooner. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." Boston Globe, May 7, 1922, p. 55.)

"Horace Binney's 56-foot waterline schooner Queen Mab made a fine run around Cape Cod, Newport to Marblehead, last Tuesday. Leaving Newport at noon Tuesday in a 20-knot South wester, the schooner carried the breeze all the way until she passed the Highlands and entered Massachusetts Bay where a Westerly was picked up. At daylight the Queen Mab was off Minot's Light and was at anchor in Marblehead Harbor by seven Wednesday morning." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, July 4, 1926, p. B51.)

"... Coming events cast their shadows before, or something like that. So, one of these days in the not too distant future, W. A. W. Stewart, vice commodore of the New York Yacht Club, may be putting another star on his hat and hoisting the commodore's blue flag to the main truck of the famous racing schooner Queen Mab.
There has been unusual activity in the fall yachting market and no transfer is more interesting than that of Queen Mab to Mr. Stewart's ownership from the flag of Horace Binney, of Newport, R. I. She was originally Vagrant, the first of the two schooners of that name built by Herreshoff for Harold Vanderbilt. Built in 1910, Queen Mab has proved fast and able in both cruising and racing on the Atlantic Coast under several owners. She won the Astor Cup in 1915 for Hendon Chubb and was flagship of the Eastern Yacht Club when Nathaniel Ayer was commodore.
Her transfer to Mr. Stewart will revive interest in the racing schooner division of the New York's annual cruise. This class has been in the doldrums for several years, a great majority of the two-stickers on the club's squadron runs being enrolled in the cruising group. ..." (Source: Morris, Everett B. "With The Windjammers." Motor Boating, July 1935, p. 37.)

"Commodore W. A. W. Stewart's schooner, Queen Mab, flagship of the New York Yacht Club fleet, will be out with a new racing rig this Summer. Changes include a taller fore mast, shorter bowsprit and shorter mainboom, alterations similar to those on some of the ocean racing schooners of the last season or two." (Source: Ramsay, Jack. "Sails, Spars and Gadgets." Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 9, 1937, p. 23.)

"... [Stored in the sheds of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company during the hurricane of 1938] Commodore W. A. W. Stewart’s schooner the Queen Mab [#698s ex-Vagrant I], the flagship of the New York Yacht Club; the M class sloop, the Carolina [#721s], owned by R.V.N. Gambrill of Newport, and some others had supporting shores washed out and were eased down on their bilges, while Harold S. Vanderbilt’s M class yacht, the Prestige [#1058s] was left upright on her cradle. ..." (Source: Bristol Phoenix, September 30, 1938. Quoted in: Simpson, Richard, V. "The Great Hurricane and Tidal Wave of 1938: Scenes of the Disaster in Rhode Island's East Bay." Roger Williams University, Bristol, 2012. http://docs.rwu.edu/hurricane_1938/1, retrieved April 12, 2014.)

"Of the five early winners [of the Bermuda Race] one other [besides the first winner, Tamerlane] is still active --- very active. This is Queen Mab, a 78-foot schooner now belonging to Robert L. Pringle and Phyllis B. Brunson of Los Angeles. Her original name was Vagrant and her first owner was Harold S. Vanderbilt, later a three-time defender of the America's Cup in the J boats, Enterprise (1930), Rainbow (1934) and Ranger (1937).
Product of Herreshoff
Vagrant was a product of Nathaniel Herreshoff, considered by many to be the foremost of American yacht designers, and she was built in the Herreshoff yard at Bristol, R.I., 58 years ago.
Vanderbilt kept the name Vagrant for his yachts and so he changed the schooner's name to Queen Mab when he sold her in 1913. She had four owners in the East before going to the West Coast in 1949. Pringle became her master in 1954 and did extensive rehabilitation.
He states that she is in 'excellent' shape and projects that she will go on 'indefinitely' under proper care. She is used for cruising and racing, sailing out of Long Beach, Calif. Racing? Yes, indeed. She has been in eight Honolulu races with the ninth slated for the summer of 1969." (Source: Wallace, William N. "Longevity Marks Bermuda Victors. 16 of 22 Yachts That Won Race are Still Active. New York Times, March 31, 1968, p. B1.)

"Jeremiah and Rose Sullivan have laid up the 78' Herreshoff-designed and built QUEEN MAB at the Nantucket Boat Basin and are 'on the beach' for the winter, having lived aboard the QUEEN the past four years sailing about the South Pacific and U. S. West Coast. Last spring they transited the Panama Canal and brought the vessel north to Nantucket. An Atlantic crossing to Ireland is planned for the future." (Source: Burke, John. "Cape and Island News." Wooden Boat #39, March/April 1981, p. 21.)

"Sunk at her berth circa late 2018 during a typhoon. Pictures of her before she sank. November, 2019. Likely to be dived on and potentially floated in next weeks." (Source: http://classicyachtinfo.com/yachts/vagrant-2/, retrieved November 21, 2019.)

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"[Item Description:] Steering wheel cover plate design including name, hull no, and year for #698s VAGRANT I." (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).)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.02139 (029-044). Blueprint general arrangement plan with inboard profile titled 'Cruising Schooner. Oa 76ft. LWL 56ft. Beam 16ft 8in. Draft 10ft 8in. Rating by Formula 55 with Allowance for Rig ...'. With penciled changes in arrangement. Apparently a preliminary drawing for #698s VAGRANT I." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0136. WRDT04, Folder O.S. 2, formerly MRDE02. 1910-03-16.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections titled 'No 698 [#698s] VAGRANT [I]. From finished model. 56ft lwl cruising schooner. Scale 1/2in. M[ar]ch 24, [19]10'. With calculations showing a QBL of 50ft 7in and arriving at a total displacement of 1833cuft = 117300lbs = 52.4 long tons and a wetted surface of 1130sqft. Other calculations are marked 'L NGH rule'. In lower left corner calculations marked #719 [VAGRANT II]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01260. Folder [no #]. 1910-03-24.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Lead for No. 698 [#698s VAGRANT I]. Scale length 3/4. Scale height & breadth 1 1/2. M[ar]ch 24, 1910'. With calculations and note 'No. 698. 56ft lwl cruising schooner. Required 55800lbs of lead with c.g. [at] .580 of l.w.l. ...' and concluding with note 'Result. 56400lbs at 26.61 frame space = .548 [of w.l.]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_08310. Folder [no #]. 1910-03-24.)
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"[Item Description:] interior changes for #698s VAGRANT under construction" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17200. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-03-29.)
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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:] acetylene lighting tanks for #698s VAGRANT under construction" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17280. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-04-08.)
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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:] extra berth in forecastle for #698s VAGRANT under construction, prefer teak steering wheel of liberal diameter, interior [acetylene] lighting piping invisible if possible, in the W.C., as your brother and I decided, the smaller fixtures to be used" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17290. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-04-26.)
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"[Item Description:] revised plans for #698s VAGRANT under construction satisfactory, would like small shelf in stateroom, folding seat in passageway, will be in Bristol again in a few days" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17260. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-05-06.)
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"[Item Description:] interior details for #698s VAGRANT under construction, location of bells, 'very pleased to find the boat progressing so rapidly'" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17330. Correspondence, Folder 46. No date (ca1910-06).)
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"[Item Description:] interior details for #698s VAGRANT under construction, 'am so glad that I am to get the boat for the race [to Bermuda starting June 25]', shall be down again about Friday" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17310. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-06-07.)
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"[Item Description:] compass adjustment[?] for #698s VAGRANT, sorry I will not be present at trial trip" (Source: Vanderbilt, Harold S. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17350. Correspondence, Folder 46. 1910-06-17.)
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"[Item Description:] penciled table titled 'L1 by formula ...' and listing data for #706s ELENA, #657s IROLITA [ex-QUEEN], #698s VAGRANT I, #532s RAINBOW, #663s ISTALENA, #666s AVENGER, #685s ADVENTURESS, #703s FLYING CLOUD, #709s JOYANT and #708s CORINTHIAN, #687s CARA-MIA [ex-NAULAKHA] and NY30s" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_67730. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 1), Folder B1F01, formerly MRDE15. No date (1911 to 1915).)
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"[Item Description:] wishes for health improvement, Bermuda will be paradise, reference to article on Bermuda in Rudder by Burgess, hotel recommendation, promoting 1911 Boston - Bermuda race, #698s VAGRANT will race, have just sold #512s VIRGINIA and will now helm #539s ALTAIR" (Source: Burgess, Hollis. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_04370. Correspondence, Folder 15, formerly 107. 1911-03-20.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled calculations beginning with 'Oct 30. Length * 21/16 = 1.4 Breadth & depth * 4/3 = 1.333. O.a. +/- 107ft 4in. wl = 78ft 4 3/4in. Beam 23.33ft …'. At right a table comparing data for VAGRANT [#698s] with several design versions. (Though not specificl identified, this is quite certainly a preliminary design for #719s VAGRANT II which was contracted for on November 2, 1912.)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Calculations. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_01930. Folder [no #]. (1912)-10-30.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph sections with pinpricks titled 'VAGRANT. Scale 3/8in = 1ft'. Both #698s VAGRANT I and #719s VAGRANT II were designed from the same Model 218, but VAGRANT II was built at a scale of 3/8in while VAGRANT I was built at a scale of 1/2in which suggests that VAGRANT II is referred to by these sections. Undated, possibly November 1912 after the contract for VAGRANT II had been signed (but note that preliminary plans had been drawn even earlier). " (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0393. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. No date (1912-11 ???).)
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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 Description:] John [JBH] telephoned me and I confirmed the order for lengthening the stern of the Vanderbilt boat [#698s VAGRANT II], #725s RESOLUTE, VANITY, Capt. Dennis, Capt. Haff, DEFIANCE" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_17930. Correspondence, Folder 48, formerly 75. 1914-06-19.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§21: Work Order [For] #698s. [When wanted] Middle of June. Running rigging (3 pages) (1910-04-05)
§24: Work Order [For] #698s. [When wanted] Middle of June. Standing rigging (2 pages) (1910-04-06)." (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 note listing prices for 70 footers of the #529s class, #658s IROLITA II, #698s VAGRANT I, #719s VAGRANT II and ISTALENA of the #663s class followed by what may be cost estimates for 'Dub[?] VAGRANT 2nd', '91 o.a., 66 w.l., 20 beam = power' and 'Dub[?] MARIETTE [#772s] + power'. Undated, the latest of these boats, MARIETTE was built in 1916." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (?) (creator). Cost Estimate. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03270. Folder [no #]. No date (1916 or later ?).)
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"[Item Transcription:] I thank you very much indeed for your letter received just before I sailed on the Eastern cruise, giving me rating of my brother-in-law, Jackson's 'PETREL' [#510s].
The old 'PETREL' sailed very well on the cruise with her new sails, and when we got a good, strong breeze and a beat to windward from Boothbay to Port Clyde, we easily caught and passed the 'SQUAW' [#804s] and another 40 footer, as well as beating such schooners as 'SHIYESSA' of the 62 foot schooner class and Batchelder's 'DORELLO','now rigged as a yawl, and we even got two runs away from the N.Y. 30 footer 'ALERA' [#626s], after giving full time allowance.
I was much surprised to see a boat 20 years old sail so well. There were a number of men who were greatly impressed with the performance of the schooner 'VAGRANT' [#698s], now 'QUEEN MAB', and think she is an ideal type for men whose means are limited. The only thing I can see that might be improved upon with one who wanted to save in the number of crew when racing, is a yawl rig which might be preferable and faster than a schooner, while requiring less men to handle the sails." (Source: Emmons, Robert W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_39250. Correspondence, Folder 79, formerly 71. 1919-07-15.)
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"[Item Transcription:] As lately there has been talk about changing the rule for rating measurement for yachts and, if changed, to make it a 'sail area rule', I have tabulated some of the data on file with the Race Committee and enclose a copy thinking that it might be of interest. [NP] The tabulation shows the relationship between RM and the square root of sail area, as well as between racing length and the cube root of displacement. From the tabulated figures it would seem that rating measurement might be determined directly from the square root of sail area, as shown in column headed 'X', which is about 0.85 for sloops and 0.78 for schooners, provided a consistent relationship was maintained between L (see column Y) and also between the square root of sail area divided by the cube root of displacement (see column Z). [NP] As displacement is an element troublesome to determine, it would seem as if it might be possible to use Coefficient times (LWL x beam x draft), in place of displacement. She Coefficient is shown in the column headed 'Coef.' which is approximately 0.16 for sloops and 0.18 for schooners. [NP] The product of dividing the square root of sail area by the cube root of displacement is shown in column '2', and the result is approximately 5.3. [NP] It would seem from a study of these figures that a simplified rule might be obtained.
[Incl. blueprint table titled 'Relation between R.M. and sq-rt(S.A.) & L, also between sq-rt(S.A.) & cube-rt(D) in Racing Formula for Rating Measurement for Sloops New York Yacht Club. September 1919. H. de B. Parsons, 22 Williams Street, New York.' and providing comparative data for N.Y.Y.C 30 (New York 30 Class), #709s JOYANT, ALEDA, NAHMA, JOSEPHINE, ALICE, DORELLO, #685s KALINGA (ex-ADVENTURESS), MEDORA, DORELLO II, N.Y.Y.C 40 (New York 40 Class), N.Y.Y.C 50 [New York 50 Class), #666s AVENGER, #694s SHIMNA, #625s DORIS, N.Y.Y.C 65 (New York 65 Class).]
[Incl. blueprint table titled 'Relation between R.M. and sq-rt(S.A.) & L, also between sq-rt(S.A.) & cube-rt(D) in Racing Formula for Rating Measurement for Schooners New York Yacht Club. September 1919. H. de B. Parsons, 22 Williams Street, New York.' and providing comparative data for Sound Schooner Class, VENONA, MILADI, SIMITAR, AMORILLA, #698s QUEEN MAB (ex-VAGRANT I), TIMANDRA, FLYING CLOUD, RADIANT, #663s IROLITA (ex-ISATLENA), TAORMINA, KATRINA, PRINCESS, IRIS, MURIEL, #719s VAGRANT, #772s MARIETTE, SAVARONA, ARIEL, SEA FOX, ENDYMION, #435s CORONA (ex-COLONIA), INVADER, ENCHANTRESS, #706s ELENA).]
[Incl. envelope postmarked Oct 2 (1919) and labeled in pencil by NGH 'Letter from H. deB Parsons about sailarea rule'.]
[Incl NGH reply:] Your very interesting letter of 2nd inst came while I was away on a little cruise, and since my return I have been so very busy that I have not found time to make a study of the tables you inclosed.
There are some good reasons for using sail area as a foundation for rating and I have been much interested in the scheme for several years, and, in fact, spent considerable time in the winter of 1914-15 in making a thorough study of the subject and formulating rules and restrictions necessary with using the sail area rating.
Your study considers existing racing yachts which, with only few exceptions were built since the present measurement rule went into effect. In my studies I also condiered the possible modifications in form and proportions that would arise under the sailarea rating.
To prevent abnormal and unwholesome types being constructed, I found it absolutely necessary to make restrictions or limitations in a number of elements, to wit over all length, and cube root of displacement, in relation to square root of sailarea, freeboard in relation to mean length ((oa+l2)/2), draft up water in relation to square root of sail area but modified in larger sizes for conveniences[?] of navigation.
So by[blank?] in safeguarding the sailarea rating I found it was necessary to take practically the same number of measurements as we do now. Therefore the gain in making a change from our present formula (C * ((L*sq-rt(S) / cube-rt(D)) to (K * sq-rt(S) is a doubtful one.
The problem of getting the most speed with least driving power or crew, would be an interesting one, but if it becomes necessary to enact restrictions & limitations to keep yachts in wholesome form you are really driving designers to work to stereotyped proportions.
If a few slight changes were made in our present [Universal] measurement rules and our present formula (C * ((L*sq-rt(S) / cube-rt(D))used without any limitations it would be good enough for universal adoption and without time limit as it has already been well tried out." (Source: Parsons, Harry DeBerkeley (incl NGH reply). Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_72930. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F05, formerly MRDE15. 1919-10-02.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Three type-written pages with Reasons for Amendments to Racing Rules:] The reasons for changes of Racing Rules is to bring them up to date, as the changes in rig the last few years has appeared to make some rulings almost absurd. Also to improve the measurement.
Subjects Changed.
1. Classification of Yachts of various rigs.
The classification should be by the size as expressed by 'measurement', and not by the combination of else and rig, i.e., a schooner of same size as a sloop should class together in mixed races and the schooner receive time allowance, instead of being put in a class with smaller sloops.
2. Rating for Racing.
With the modern development in rigs and sails, it is very obvious a schooner or yawl will sail much closer to a sloop than allowed for in the past, and the amendment proposed is based on my observations and experience.
3. The definition of Ketch and Yawl.
I have proposed to be independent of hull size and entirely dependent on the rig itself.
4. Waterline one tenth above.
It is probably apparent to every racing yachtsman that overhang has its value for racing speed, quite as much as has quarter beam length. The intention is to measure that part of overhang that is of value for racing speed and not restrict the ends higher above the water, leaving the length on deck so the owner may have his choice of the character of the overhangs
The fixture of the quarter beam length as by formula,-Percentage 100 -sq-rt(LWL) is to the writer wrong almost to absurdity.
There can be no standard of relation between load water line and quarter beam length and it is not desirable to attempt to fix one. There is no reason why the Q.B.L. ratio to L.W.L. should be less in large yachts than small ones. 5. Under all sails set abaft mast, etc. the proposed method of measurement of sails is more universal for variations of, and different types of rigs, and takes care of variations in else due to weather conditions and stretch quite as well as the present method of measurement.
Since the object is to measure fairly the opportunity of setting sails there appears no justice in the present upper limitations of P, etc., and I am taking the point at lower side of sheave or block, etc., believing that is a fair point for the measurement. Also it is better to measure to a 'black band' on boom and gaff instead of to the extreme end of the spar.
The object in the spinnaker boom limitations is to keep it within the size the crew can handle readily. The suggested rule appears to do that very well.
6. There appears to be so much trouble from the use of battens in the leach of sails, the greatest being the almost impossibility of setting a sail in strong winds, without having battens break and injuring the sail, it is the writers opinion that they should be barred. This would detract from the good setting of sails, and would also tax the skill of sailmakers to overcome the difficulties and to produce good sails, but it is believed the prohibition would result favorably in the end.
7. Limitation on Draft, Displacement and Rig.
The present draft of water rule does not allow enough draft in yachts between 30 and 100 foot, and too much in smaller and larger ones. It is a crude rule and should be revised.
The limitation of displacement in the formula for measurement is entirely unnecessary and puts a check on designing yachts of the most wholesome type and should certainly be expunged. A rule that would discourage such yachts as ENCHANTRESS, ELMINA, QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I], VAGRANT [#719s] and her sisters, the NYYC 50 footers [New York 50 class] and 40 footers [New York 40 class] and many others which are considered by yachtsmen generally the most satisfactory type, cannot be right. In the case of a yacht built to Lloyd's Rules it is quite necessary to have the displacement over the present limitations if she is ballasted and rigged to get the best results in racing.
To prevent rigs taking proportions which are undesirable there should be limitations on extremely high masts and also on long bowsprits and booms. I have attempted rules for limitations which I think will be found satisfactory. [Signed 'Nathl. G. Herreshoff' and dated 'Bristol, R.I., August, 1920.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Racing Rule. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_73710. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F08, formerly MRDE15. 1920-08-00.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Four type-written pages with Reasons for Amendments to Racing Rules:] The reasons for changes of Racing Rules is to bring them up to date, as the changes in rig the last few years has appeared to make some rulings almost absurd. Also to improve the measurement.
Subjects Changed.
1. Classification of Yachts of various rigs.
The classification should be by the size as expressed by 'measurement', and not by the combination of else and rig, i.e., a schooner of same size as a sloop should class together in mixed races and the schooner receive time allowance, instead of being put in a class with smaller sloops.
2. Rating for Racing.
With the modern development in rigs and sails, it is very obvious a schooner or yawl will sail much closer to a sloop than allowed for in the past, and the amendment proposed is based on my observations and experience.
3. The definition of Ketch and Yawl.
I have proposed to be independent of hull size and entirely dependent on the rig itself.
4. Waterline one tenth above.
It is probably apparent to every racing yachtsman that overhang has its value for racing speed, quite as much as has quarter beam length. The intention is to measure that part of overhang that is of value for racing speed and not restrict the ends higher above the water, leaving the length on deck so the owner may have his choice of the character of the overhangs
The fixture of the quarter beam length as by formula,-Percentage 100 -sq-rt(LWL) is to the writer wrong almost to absurdity.
There can be no standard of relation between load water line and quarter beam length and it is not desirable to attempt to fix one. There is no reason why the Q.B.L. ratio to L.W.L. should be less in large yachts than small ones. 5. Under all sails set abaft mast, etc. the proposed method of measurement of sails is more universal for variations of, and different types of rigs, and takes care of variations in else due to weather conditions and stretch quite as well as the present method of measurement.
Since the object is to measure fairly the opportunity of setting sails there appears no justice in the present upper limitations of P, etc., and I am taking the point at lower side of sheave or block, etc., believing that is a fair point for the measurement. Also it is better to measure to a 'black band' on boom and gaff instead of to the extreme end of the spar.
The object in the spinnaker boom limitations is to keep it within the size the crew can handle readily. The suggested rule appears to do that very well.
6. There appears to be so much trouble from the use of battens in the leach of sails, the greatest being the almost impossibility of setting a sail in strong winds, without having battens break and injuring the sail, it is the writers opinion that they should be barred. This would detract from the good setting of sails, and would also tax the skill of sailmakers to overcome the difficulties and to produce good sails, but it is believed the prohibition would result favorably in the end.
7. Limitation on Draft, Displacement and Rig.
The present draft of water rule does not allow enough draft in yachts between 30 and 100 foot, and too much in smaller and larger ones. It is a crude rule and should be revised.
The limitation of displacement in the formula for measurement is entirely unnecessary and puts a check on designing yachts of the most wholesome type and should certainly be expunged. A rule that would discourage such yachts as ENCHANTRESS, ELMINA, QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I], VAGRANT [#719s] and her sisters, the NYYC 50 footers [New York 50 class] and 40 footers [New York 40 class] and many others which are considered by yachtsmen generally the most satisfactory type, cannot be right. In the case of a yacht built to Lloyd's Rules it is quite necessary to have the displacement over the present limitations if she is ballasted and rigged to get the best results in racing.
To prevent rigs taking proportions which are undesirable there should be limitations on extremely high masts and also on long bowsprits and booms. I have attempted rules for limitations which I think will be found satisfactory. [Undated, but compare with identical tzped version which is signed 'Nathl. G. Herreshoff' and dated 'Bristol, R.I., August, 1920.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Racing Rule. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_73840. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F08, formerly MRDE15. No date (1920-08).)
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"[Item Description:] Francis has shown me your letter and include[?] th T class boats would measure by the old length & sail area rule at about 23 and are therefore will writing [sic, ie. well within] the limit, but 2 class boats would not be, I would not recommend putting any restriction on displacement as I believe it much better to encourage good wholesome boats that would be fit for cruisers than racing machines, even I think it a mistake to limit th rue value of displacement in the [formula] for it discourages the construction of such good boats as ENCHANTRESS, ELMINA, QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I], VAGRANT [#719s] and her sisters, the 50s and 40s of NYYC and many others of which are considered the best of our modern fleet, that are handicapped by it, considering the exteme propotions being adopted around the Cape in some of the so called Marconi Rig, which cannot be considered a safe rig for cruising and rough water sailing, believe it well if a limitation is put on extreme length of spars of any kind, and I worked over this ubject some and have formulated the following, undated (handwritten by NGH on envelope of the American Sociological Congress, postmarked from Washington Sep 16, 1920)" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Ellis, Ralph N. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRRT_340. Unidentif. / Non-Cataloged, Folder MRRT. No date (after 1920-09-16).)
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"[Item Description:] Nat Ayer intending to change rig of #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I from the present gaff to Marconi mainsail, considers winter storage at HMCo" (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_18550. Correspondence, Folder 51, formerly 54. 1921-08-26.)
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"[Item Description:] need some time to analyse HMCo financial figures, approve of your plan re #721s CAROLINA's bulkheads and please leave instructions how to do so before you leave for the winter, Ayer has invited me on little cruise on #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I" (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_18600. Correspondence, Folder 51, formerly 54. 1921-08-29.)
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"[Item Description:] Seven mimeographed pages with race results of the Cruise of the New York Yacht Club of 1922. Races: Astor Cups off Newport, R.I. on August 2d, 1922. 1st Run Newport to Mattapoisett on August 3, 1922. 2dt Run Mattapoisett to Vineyard Haven on August 4, 1922. 3rd Run Vineyard Haven to Provincetown on August 5, 1922. 4th Run Provincetown to Gloucester on August 7, 1922. 5th Run Gloucester to Marblehead on August 8, 1922. Among the finishers were schooners #719s VAGRANT II, #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I, #663s IROLITA ex-ISTALENA, #827s OHONKARA and #772s MARIETTE, New York 50s #721s CAROLINA, #711s ISTALENA ex-VENTURE, #720s ACUSHLA ex-HARPOON and #717s BARBARA, New York 40s #776s ROWDY, #777s ZILPH, #804s SQUAW, #774s MISTRAL, #779s SALLY ANN ex-JESSICA, #781s PAMPERO and #773s MONSOON ex-MAISIE, New York 30s #629s COUNTESS ex-MAID OF MEUDON, #648s MINX, #632s ALICE ex-TABASCO, #640s BANZAI, #637s ORIOLE and #630s LENA ex-PINTAIL, as well as cutter #586s BUTTERFLY ex-NELLIE." (Source: NYYC (creator). Race Results. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_72340. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F01, formerly MRDE15. 1922.)
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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:] Printed pamphlet titled 'Racing Rules. New York Yacht Club. 1924'. Incl. a printed 'List of yachts, the measurements of which are on file with the Race Committee. July, 1924.
Schooners
D 7 FLYING CLOUD
D 10 IROLITA [#663s ex-ISTALENA]
C 5 MARIETTE [#772s ]
E 14 NOMAD
F 22 NORKA
C 2 OHONKARA [#827s ]
D 8 PRINCESS [#658s ex-IROLITA II]
E 9 QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I]
E 16 SHAWNA
C 12 SONNICA
C 7 VAGRANT [#719s ]
FF 1 WANDERER IX
D 22 WILDFIRE [#891s ]
Fifty Class
N.Y. 52 ANDIAMO [#716s ex-SAMURI]
N.Y. 55 CAROLINA [#716s ]
N.Y. 53 IROQUOIS II [#721s ]
N.Y. 54 MYSTIC [#715s ex-GRAYLING]
N.Y. 56 SPARTAN [#716s ]
Forty Class
N.Y.Y.C. 8 BANSHEE [#782s ex-PAULINE]
N.Y.Y.C. 2 COCKATOO [#775s ex-DOLLY BOWEN]
N.Y.Y.C. 12 IRIS [#777s ex-ZILPH]
N.Y.Y.C. 6 MISTRAL [#782s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 7 PAMPERO [#775s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 9 ROWDY [#777s ]
N.Y.Y.C. 3 SALLY ANN [#779s ex-JESSICA]
N.Y.Y.C. 10 SHAWARA [#782s ]
THIRTY CLASS
N.Y. 18 ADIOS [#647s ex-ANEMONE]
N.Y. 1 ALERA [#647s ]
N.Y. 7 ALICE [#632s ex-TABASCO]
N.Y. 15 BANZAI [#647s ]
N.Y. 8 CAROLITA [#633s ex-CARLITA]
N.Y. 4 COUNTESS [#629s ex-MAID OF MEUDON]
N.Y. 14 FIJI II [#639s ex-CARA MIA]
N.Y. 5 LENA [#630s ex-PINTAIL]
N.Y. 12 MINX [#638s ex-NEOLA II]
N.Y. 11 ORIOLE [#637s ex-ORIOLE]
N.Y. 13 PHANTOM [#648s ex-MINX]
0 Class
L.O. 1 GEORGIA
L.O. 4 GREY DAWN
L.O. 5 MAISIE
L.O. 3 NIMBUS
Various Classes
N 2 ALICE
N.Y. 58 BARBARA [#717s ] (Aux. Sloop)
P 1 BUTTERFLY [#586s ex-NELLIE]
M 15 LADRONE [#634s ex-SUZETTA III] (Aux. Yawl)
N.Y. 51 REVERY [#720s ex-ACUSHLA] (Aux. Yawl)
M 6 VENTURA [#717s ]
K 3 WINSOME [#717s ] (Aux. Ketch)'.
Of 49 yachts listed (including 11 NY30s, 8 NY40s and 5 NY50s plus 2 NY50s and 1 NY70 out of class) 37 or 75% were designed and built by Herreshoff." (Source: New York Yacht Club (creator). Printed Pamphlet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE08_01830. Folder [no #]. 1924.)
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"[Item Description:] #663s IROLITA ex-ISTALENA feedback re changed rig; comparison with #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I and #891s WILDFIRE during recent races." (Source: Clark, E.W. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_05700. Correspondence, Folder 20, formerly 136. 1924-06-26.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Dear Mr. Morgan.
Please excuse my negligence in not acknowledging your kind letter of [September] 10th [1925]. I will be glad to advise about changes of launch [#282p CORSAIR] until I leave for the south and I shall in a few days begin the design for an R boat [#932s GAMECOCK] for you.
In relation to certain changes in Racing rules appertaining[?] to Measurements principally which I have to suggest I donot want to be considered as one making unnecessary trouble for the yacht owners or do it for any personal advantage. it is only to correct defects and get the Rules in best possible form, and have them so they will not produjest[?] the most desirable type of yacht.
To my mind such results can only be got at thru experimentation and to that end rules must necessarily be changed from time to time, so that manifest[?] improvements in type of yachts will at least be merited.
The general formula for obtaining rating I donot think can be improved, but I do think it unfortunate that the coefficient .18 had not been made .2 in the first place so the rating would be nearer to L in a normal boat. But a change now would not be desirable as the classification would have to be changed to kick yachts in their respective classes.
The present method of obtaining L I think very faulty and should be improved. The relation of Q.B. length to l.w.l. should not be dictated, but each should be taken at its value to produce the best type of yacht. There is no reason why q.b.l. should bear[?] a relation of 100% - sq-rt(lwl) and it is quite wrong to allow sharper water lines in large yachts than small ones. If a fixed relation between lwl and q.b.l. was desirable it would be better to have it the same in all sizes but it is not desirable.
Seeing the tendency to make the overhangs very flat in order to gain more useful length for racing that is not measured, I propose to take another length measurement in the same plane that Q.B.L. is taken in and then combine it with lwl and qbl to obtain L. I suggest that the plane from which all calculations are made be called 'Established waterline plane' instead of Load waterline plane, and the length taken in this plane be called 'Established waterline' (E.W.L.). The new measurement taken in plane 1/10 of breadth above be called Load waterline (L.w.l.).
Also. Change the name 'Quarter beam length' to 'Quarter breadth length' (Q.B.L.) as the time honored Breadth of Beam is the breadth at height of main beam and not at waterline.
The formula for obtaining L I propose shall be L = (LWL + EWL + 2*QBL) / 4.
In this formula I consider the three length measurements are taken at their relative values for racing and preventing the ends from becoming too flat for comfortable motion in a seaway. After experiments use it is still found bows are made too flat for easy motion in sea, the formula might be changed to L = (LWL + EWL + 3*QBL) / 5.
This of course does away with the formula 'Percentage + 100 - sq-rt(l.w.l.)'.
Limits and Penalties.
Draft of water is not used as a factor in measurement. The only object in having a limitation is for convenience in docking and navigation, both for easy motion at sea and ability to navigate in waters of restricted depth. The present limitation rule is simple, but does not fill the requirements properly. It allows an unnecessary amount of draft in small boats and not enough in yachts of intermediate classes.
As examples the 75 foot w.l. yachts SHAMROCK VANITIE and RESOLUTE [#725s] all had centreboards beside a full allowance of draft. ELENA [#706s] schooner had centreboard beside full allowance of draft.
To improve this limitation I suggest a modification of the rule as follows:-
When L is 16ft or under draft limit .25L
When L is between 16ft & 36 draft limit .22*(L=2.18)
[etc, etc]
In centreboard yachts draft when centreboard is up not to exceed .125L.
Penalty to overdraft to be as now ( 3 times excess added to Rating).
I am opposed to the limit put[?] and[?] displacement in divisor of Rating measurement formula.
I know it was advised and adopted without due amount of trial of the formula as it originally stood. It came about when to[?] P class yacht JOYANT [#709s] had made a very successful season at racing in command of Addison Hanan. Hanan was a very clever helmsman and had been winning out in other boats. After JOYANT's initial season under HANAN she never showed more than average speed but has always been considered a desirable type of yacht, excepting that she had excessive overhang and that might fairly have been attacked instead of displacement. Her cube-rt(D) / lwl = .23. VAGRANT [#719s] and class cube-rt(D) / lwl = .217. QUEEN MAB [ex #698s VAGRANT I] .2185.
FLYING CLOUD [#703s] and HASWELL [#743s] .22.
All I consider the most satisfactory yachts fit for deep sea cruising and at the same time fast enough to give good sport in racing.
Another consideration is Yachts built to Lloyd's Rules are so heavy in hull construction that it is quite necessary to have cube-rt(D) / L more than 20% * lwl + .5 in order to carry sufficient amount of ballast.
I hope to see this limitation expurgated from the rules.
The restriction of position of mainmast in (two-masted) schooners to aft of 53% of water line length has no justification and is a devv[?] strict against improvement[?].
My experience indicates that the best possible position for the mainmast is a little forward of what the rule allows. Can any one give a good reason why the position of the mainmast should be restricted? Often the layout of cabin or of deck beams & framing would ask for a position against the ruling. I think it difficult to make any just ruling for placing the mast and it better be left free for future developments. A tentative ruling might be that the centre of mast be not forward of centre of displacement and when in that position the schooners rating to be 95% of that of a sloop rig. If the mast is farther aft each % of w.l. length shall be deducted from 95% rating. That would make the rating with mast in present restricted position about 92% of sloops rating.
The height limit of jib-headed or leg-o-mutton mainsail I should make universal for for[?] any rig and make the upper point of measurement for any sail (including club topsails) from the deck as follows:
Single masted yachts not over 1.8*sq-rt(S)
Two masted yachts not over 1.5*sq-rt(S)
Triple masted yachts not over 1.4*sq-rt(S)
Having a plus constant in the present rule is quite a mistake, as any one can see. [Undated. Reference to 'letter of 10th' shows this to be a response to Junius Morgan's September 10, 1925 letter to NGH and thus would suggest that NGH wrote this about September 15, 1925.]" (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Letter to Morgan, Junius S. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_31080. Subject Files, Folder 30, formerly 10-15. 1925-09-(ca15 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled note with data for lwl, displacement, wetted surface, sail area and S/WS for schooners IROLITA [#658s], VAGRANT [#719s], RESOLUTE [#725s], WILDFIRE [#891s] and QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I [#698s]. Undated, RESOLUTE was rigged as a schooner in 1926." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Note. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03350. Folder [no #]. No date (1926 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table titled 'Comparative Elements to study 70 footer Design. Fall of 1926' showing data for LOA, LWL, WBL, Beam, Breadth, Draft, Freeeboard, Displacement, Wetted Surface and Sail Area for '1st VAGRANT [#698s]. Enlarged as 12 to 15 = 120%', 'Study model [Model 1322 ?] of Fall 1922. 68ft w.l. Enlarged', 'WILDFIRE [#891s] Enlarged [with added figures in red pencil marked 'immersed 3in deep']', 'Model of 1911 for a 55ft rating enlarged as 12 to 16 = 125%', 'NYYC 50s [#711s Class] Enlarged 140%', 'RESOLUTE [#725s] Reduced to 93.3%', 'WINSOME Class (Original) [#664s NY57 Class]', and 'NYYC 30s [#626s NY30 Class] Inc[reased] l to 233%. Increased b & d to 220%'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE06_00070. Folder [no #]. Fall of 1926.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sketch titled 'Ranges for Rock hit by yacht QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I] Oct 9 1926 about 3-15 P.M.'." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.125. Sketch. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Detail Sketches. 1926-10-09.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am ever so much obliged for your very prompt answer, which is just what I wanted to give me a better and more reliable information than I could get anywhere else. I have just made an offer for the SALLY ANN [#779s ex-JESSICA], owned by Mr. Borden, a [New York] 'forty, now lying at Bristol, principally for [son] Edwin's use, and I am considering seriously the 'COMFORT' [#267p ex-ENAJ], but have naturally not told anybody what I know about her nor who is my informant, proceeding carefully as I understand her present owner, Mr. Hanan is very hard to deal with, and unless I get her cheap I will not attempt to do anything. Do you think that one or two Ray rotary oil burners with which one can use the cheapest grade of oil, fuel oil I believe, would work with her boiler and be satisfactory? That is one question. Do you think that a 90 H.P. Winton Diesel engine would be silent, and what speed do you think it would give that boat? It seems to me, mostly from hearsay, that the Diesel engines give considerable vibration and some noise. Am I mistaken. It might be better for me to get along with her present steam outfit for this Summer and then make a change, but I can not help feeling an affection for the steam plant for the handling of the boat with that installed is more or less of an old story to me and would be easy.
Anything that you may have to say on the subject would be very welcome indeed, but don't take any trouble about it. I am very skeptical about making the purchase on account of her owner.
I envy you Coconut Grove and its climate just at present,
although we have had a pretty good winter here.
If by chance I should get the SALLY ANN a 'forty' I have a plan to put a Marconi rig on her, which I think would make a very handy little boat of her, and I have always admired a 'forty', not necessarily in their lines out of water, but in their lines in and out of water. They strike me of having a resemblance to the VAGRANT [#698s].
With kindest regards to Mrs. Herresshoff[sic, i.e. Herreshoff], and with renewed thanks to you for the full information, I am,
Sincerely, ..." (Source: Morgan, E.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_05120. Correspondence, Folder 17, formerly 115. 1927-03-02.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Printed circular, two sheets of paper:] New York Yacht Club The Cruise 1927
Additional Racing Instructions Run From Huntington To New London—16Th August
In case of no wind at Huntington at the proposed time of the Start on the 16th August, the following signals will be made by the Flagship: etc. ... [Plus printed circular:] New York Yacht Club
List of yachts, measurement certificates of which were on file with the Race Committee on August 1, 1927, which will be valid for the Cruise.
SCHOONERS: C Class
C 2 OHONKARA [#827s]
C 7 VAGRANT [#719s]
C 3 VANITIE
D Class: D 25 ADVANCE
D 7 CONSTANCE
D 22 WILDFIRE [#891s]
D 5 LYNX
E Class: E 4 AURELIA
E 9 QUEEN MAB [#698s]
E16 SHAWNA
F Class: F3 CURLEW
F 4 MARY ROSE [#954s]
F 1 PLEIONE [#714s]
F 11 CACHALOT
G Class: S.C. 11 CLYTIE
S.C. 12 NADJI
S.C. 9 NOKOMIS
S.C. 6 SEVEN SEAS
G 1 WANDERER IX
G 7 MALABAR VII
H Class: H 3 FLYING FISH
H 2 ADVENTURER
KETCH: H 7 ANGELICA
SLOOPS
J Class: J 1 KATOURA [#1050s]
L.0. Class: L.0. 1 GEORGIA
L.0. 4 GREY DAWN
L.0. 5 MIRAGE
L.0. 3 NIMBUS
M Class: M 5 CAROLINA [#721s]
M 3 CHIORA [#713s ex-IROQUOIS II]
M 38 DOLLY
M 4 IBIS [#715s ex-GRAYLING]
M 1 PRESTIGE [#1058s]
M 6 SPARTAN [#712s]
10 Meter Class: 10M 9 BLAZING STAR
10M 7 BRANTA
10M 4 CYTHERA
10M 11 DRAGON
10M 8 ESQUILA
10M 6 NARCISSUS
10M 14 NAUTILUS
10M 10 RAEBURN
10M 12 REDHEAD
10M 10 REVENGE
10M 13 SHAWARA
10M 3 SYNTHETIC
10M 1 TWILIGHT
10M 5 VALENCIA
N Class: N 2 ALICE
P Class: P 1 BUTTERFLY [#586s ex-NELLIE]
50 Class: N. Y. Y. C. 52 ANDIAMO [#716s ex-SAMURI]
40 Class: N. Y. Y. C. 42 COCKATOO [#775s ex-DOLLY BOWEN]
N. Y. Y. C. 50 MARILEE [#955s]
N. Y. Y. C. 46 MISTRAL [#774s]
N. Y. Y. C. 47 PAMPERO [#781s ex-PAMPARO]
N. Y. Y. C. 45 TYPHOON [#773s ex-MAISIE]
N. Y. Y. C. 49 ROWDY* [#776s]
30 Class: N. Y. 1 ALERA [#626s]
N. Y. 7 ALICE [#632s ex-TABASCO]
N. Y. 9 AMORITA [#635s ex-ADELAIDE II]
N. Y. 15 BANZAI [#640s]
N. Y. 4 INTERLUDE [#629s ex-MAID OF MEUDON]
N. Y. 5 LENA [#630s ex-PINTAIL]
N. Y. 11 ORIOLE [#637s]
N. Y. 13 PHANTOM [#648s ex-MINX]
N. Y. 17 PHRYNE (Rig changed to jib-headed mainsail.) [#643s]
Q Class: F. I. S. 3 CHANCE [#1059s]
F. I. S. 1 CYRILLA II [#1054s]
F. I. S. 2 JUDY [#1055s]
F. I. S. 4 MAMEENA [#1060s]
YAWLS M Class: N. Y. 51 REVERY [#720s ex-ACUSHLA]
M 1 RUGOSA II [#983s]
... August 1, 1827. [Compared to the equivalent list from 1924 the number of boats has increased from 49 to 73, while the number of Herreshoff-built yachts has shrunk from 37 to 32 or 44%.] [Incl envelope from Race Committee NYYC to NGH, labeled in red 'Rating & allowance' and postmarked August 4, 1927.]" (Source: NYYC. Correspondence (circular) to Members. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_73330. Measuring and Measurement Rules (Box 2), Folder B2F07, formerly MRDE15. 1927-08-01.)
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"[Item Transcription:] As the JESSICA [#779s] has been entirely used for a family cruising boat, and has proven successful beyond the best of hope, I am, on [son] Edwin's account, now considering making her a more ideal boat for that particular purpose, and I am wondering if you have the time and inclination to make me on her blueprint a sketch of a yawl rig, also one of a ketch rig. Personally I am a great believer in a ketch, because they are so naturally balanced that you really don't have to think about the weather as much as you [blank].
Those boats are truly good goods. I have always admired their model and that of the first VAGRANT [#698s] as they hung in the New York Yacht Club, and the JESSICA certainly has proved all that I hoped for her. By the way, although I put her bowsprit back and put a new jib on her, Edwin tells me that she still gripes. I have no opinion myself as I have never sailed her but once, and that was with the original rig, and she certainly griped badly then, which was the cause of my putting on a bow sprit. If this seems a burden to you don't do anything about it, but the only reason I bore you with it is because I believe that no one knows half as much on the subject as you.
We are all well, but I am sorry to say the Evarts, that is Katharine, her husband and four infants, are going to Windsor. Jerry is one of the most successful young men I know, and has one of the best minds, but his tendency is towards politics, and his desire is to start from his home town as did his grandfather before him, William M. Evarts.
I hope you are well and have had a pleasant Summer.
Sorry not to have seen you, but I don't seem to have seen anybody but my classmates at our fiftieth Anniversary at Cambridge. I thought I was going to see dowdy old men there, but I was surprised to see as nice a lot of chaps as you would want to see. We had our Class Dinner, and there were forty nine out of a total of ninety two survivors of the Class.
Please give my kind regards to, Mrs. Herreshoff, and believe me to be always,
Your most sincere friend, ..." (Source: Morgan, E.D. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_38880. Correspondence, Folder 77, formerly 62. 1927-10-06.)
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"[Item Description:] Bob [Emmons] death has shocked us all, do not plan to bring out #721s CAROLINA, would like to have competed against #1058s PRESTIGE, Gust Olsen now with #1050s KATOURA now BLACKSHEAR, #1078s THISTLE was to be launched tomorrow but launch was postponed 5 days, Harding has sold #713s CHIORA ex-IROQOUIS II to Mrs. Chandler Hovey, #698s QUEEN MAB ex-VAGRANT I set a standard to LYNX that she could not live up to" (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_06500. Correspondence, Folder 23, formerly 207. 1928-04-27.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Penciled notes:] Job # 16650. 1/19/29.
For using figures in No 698 [#698s WESTWARD] Book for making model of OHONKARA [#827s] at scale of 1/4in = 1ft.
For transverse measurements take 2/3 of book readings on a 1/2in scale.
Frame spaces corresponding to those in the book have been laid out on the drawing of MARIETTE [#772s] ([Drawing] 1-57).
The keel is 3in deeper than the book figures, or 4in deeper using the scale of the model.
The stern is changes as per drawing (1-57)." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.098. Design notes. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Administrative - Notes. 1929-01-19.)
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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 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:] Printed pamphlet titled 'General Order Number 2. New York Yacht Club. QUEEN MAB [#698s ex-VAGRANT I] Flagship' and providing information about Assembly, Signals, Instructions and Sailing Directions for the runs from New London to Newport, from Newport to Edgartown, from Edgartown to Mattapoisett, for the 85th Annual Regatta on Buzzards Bay, and from Mattapoisett to Newport." (Source: NYYC (creator). Printed Pamphlet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_57080. Subject Files, Folder 75, formerly 162. 1936-07-27.)
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"[Item Transcription:] [Carte de visite:] Flagship 'QUEEN MAB' [#698s ex-VAGRANT I].
Dress will be informal on board the Flagship during the Cruise [of the New York Yacht Club]." (Source: NYYC (creator). Carte de Visite. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_57100. Subject Files, Folder 75, formerly 162. No date (ca1936-08-04).)
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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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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with pinpricks titled 'VAGRANT [#719s]. July 4, 1958'. With note 'For templates for model for Royal Bermuda Yacht Club presented by Harold Vanderbilt. ... This model of 2nd VAGRANT was made by mistake. It should have been the 1st VAGRANT (later called QUEEN MAB [#698s]. The model is now at my house ... Florida. A.S. deW. H. Sept[ember] 30, 1963'." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01930. Folder [no #]. 1958-07-04.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with pinpricks titled '1st VAGRANT. QUEEN MAB [#698s] scale 3/8in = 1ft. Nov[ember] 17, 1958'. On verso another set of penciled pantograph sections, crossed out." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_01910. Folder [no #]. 1958-11-17.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #698s Vagrant 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.

• Vagrant (HMCo-made index card)
• Vagrant (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: Vagrant
Type: Schooner
Length: 56'
Owner: Vanderbilt, H. S.

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

• Vagrant
• Queen Mab ex-Vagrant
• 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: Vagrant
Type: 56' schooner
Owner: Harold S. Vanderbilt
Year: 1910
Row No.: 705

Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.

Month: Mar
Day: 23
Year: 1910
E/P/S: S
No.: 0698
Name: Vagrant
LW: 56'
B: 17' 8"
D: 10' 8"
Rig: Schr
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 26800.00
Notes Constr. Record: Now "Queen Mab."
Last Name: Vanderbilt
First Name: H. 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.

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

"In 1922, Queen Mab, ex-Vagrant I, then under the ownership of Nathaniel Ayer, was converted to a Marconi rig (still with gaff foresail) which apparently made her the first major American schooner to switch from a gaff to a Marconi mainsail." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 18, 2014.)

"Vagrant which since 1992 had been sitting in the same place at the dock in Nishinomiyao harbor between the Nishinomiyao bridge and the Windward Ocean Club was hit by a major typhoon in 2017 or 2018 (probably Typhoon Jebi of September 4, 2018) and sustained major damage including the loss of her masts and bowsprit. She is rumored to have subsequently sunk or even during the storm and was apparently raised afterwards. In any even, by July 2020 at the latest she was not seen in her customary berth anymore." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 8, 2021.)

"[Was loaned by her owner to the U.S. Coast guard and performed submarine search duty as a Coast Guard Coastal Picket Patrol in 1942 with the registration number CGR-2555.]" (Source: Wilbur, John. Private Email Communication with Evelyn Ansel, Curator Herreshoff Marine Museum, January 2022.)

"Built in 84 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $319/day, 1397 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Sail area 4703 sqft 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 1833 cu.ft. [= 117,312 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 at 56ft w.l. and 17.66ft beam = 117,300lbs = 1833 cu.ft.]" (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.)

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