HMCo #704s Pheasant

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

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

"Official Number of Racing Yachts.
Herreshoff Fifteen-Foot One Design Class
E-0 Vim [#503s]
E-1 Anita [#672s]
E-2 Peacock [#505s]
E-3 Awahnee [#673s]
E-4 Tinker [#650s]
E-5 Jub Jub [#509s]
E-6 Uarda [#511s]
E-7 Fly [#518s]
E-8 Ranzo [#519s]
E-9 Seeps [#645s]
E-10 Hyassa [#726s]
E-11
E-12 Endeavour [#693s]
E-13
E-14
E-15 Yalu [#651s]
E-16 Jack [#653s]
E-17 Jill [#654s]
E-18 White Rabbit
E-19 Flickamaroo [#785s?]
E-20
E-21
E-22
E-23 Pheasant [#704s]
E-24 Pronto [#700s]
E-25 Polly [#680s]
E-26 Maribee [#731s]
E-27 Scoot [#730s]
E-28 Noanet [#735s]
E-29 Natella [#739s]." (Source: Beverly Yacht Club. Yearbook. 1915, p. 13.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 18, 1930: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1931: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1932: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1933: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

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

• Pheasant (HMCo-made index card)
• Pheasant (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: Pheasant
Type: J & M
Length: 15'
Owner: Winsor, R.

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

Name: Peasant [sic, i.e. Pheasant]
Type: 15' Buzzards Bay
Owner: Robert Winsor
Row No.: 830

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: Sep
Day: 29
Year: 1910
E/P/S: S
No.: 0704
Name: Pheasant
LW: 15'
B: 6' 9"
D: 2' 3"
Rig: J & M
K: y
CB: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 975.00
Notes Constr. Record: M. 503
Last Name: Winsor.
First Name: R.

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

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

"[Sail area 352.5 sq.ft.]" (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 (38 cubic feet = 2432 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.)

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