HMCo #705s Saracen
Particulars
Name: SaracenType: Beverly YC Raceabout Class
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1910-9-29
Construction: Wood
LOA: 37' 6" (11.43m)
LWL: 21' 0" (6.40m)
Beam: 9' 4" (2.84m)
Draft: 6' 0" (1.83m)
Rig: Gaff Sloop
Keel: yes
Ballast: Lead outside
Built for: Winsor, Robert
Amount: $3,025.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: M[oulds of] #701.
Last reported: 1917 (aged 7)
Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.
Model
Model number: 318Model location: H.M.M. Model Room South Wall Right
Vessels from this model:
3 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"SELWONK spring 1910 Raceabout class Beverly YC scale 1" Knowles
FORMINIFER fall 1910 No. 701 " " " " " but changed 8/10" in waterline length WITTAMORE
late fall 1910 No. 705 " " " " " " R. M. Winsor" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"21' lwl Selwonk, Foraminifer, and Saracen, raceabout sloops of 1910." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.170
Offset booklet contents:
#696, #701, #705 [21' w.l. sloops Foraminifer 1 & 2 & Saracen].
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
Explore all drawings relating to this boat.List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #705s Saracen are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
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Dwg 110-092 (HH.5.09057): Spreaders for Small Sail Boats (1907-04-27)
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Dwg 081-071 (HH.5.06161): Spars (1909-04-30)
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Dwg 130-112 (HH.5.10420): Sails > # 696, 701, 705 Buzzards Bay 21' - Selwonk, Foraminifer, Saracen (1910-03 ?)
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Dwg 128-025 (HH.5.10103): Sails > Sails for No. 696, 705 (1910-03-07)
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Dwg 076-096 (HH.5.05550): Construction Dwg > No. 696, Length 37 1/2' O.A., 21' W.L., Beam 9'-4", Draught 6'-0" (1910-05-28 ?)
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Dwg 143-024 (HH.5.11888): Foraminifer 37 1/2' O.A., 9'-4" Beam, 6' Draught [Docking Plan] (1910-06-15)
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Dwg 130-115 (HH.5.10423): Sails > # 707 Buzzards Bay 21' Polliwog (1911-02 ?)
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Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"No. 696 [#696s].
Frame spaces 9".
Timbers moulded 1 1/8 at head. Between # 24 - 33 inclusive, to increase moulded way 1/8" per ft. All others moulded 1 1/8 full length.
Planking 3/4.
Decking 3/4.
Sheer height given is to upper side of deck.
Keel 1 3/8 above rabbate and 3/8 (more or less) below in middle part.
Stem head 3/4".
Deck beam crown about 4 1/4" in 9ft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in pencil and ink) note in Offset Booklet HH.4.170.] March 1910. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency has sold the following yachts: ...
Herreshoff 21-ft. racing sloop Saracen, owned by Robert Winsor, of Boston, to Walter Kelley, of Boston. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yachts Change Hands." Rudder, March 1917, p. 34.)
Archival Documents
"N/A"
Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #705s Saracen even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
Supplement
From the 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
- 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.
From the 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List
Name: Saracen
Type: J & M
Length: 21'
Owner: Winsor, R.
Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.
From the 1930s L. Francis Herreshoff Index Cards at the Herreshoff Marine Museum
- 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.
From the 1953 HMCo Owner's List by L. Francis Herreshoff
Name: Saracen
Type: 21' J & M
Owner: Robert Winsor
Row No.: 593
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.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Month: Sep
Day: 29
Year: 1910
E/P/S: S
No.: 0705
Name: Saracen.
LW: 21'
B: 9' 4"
D: 6' 0"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 3025.00
Notes Constr. Record: M. 701.
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.
Research Note(s)
"Raceabout. Beverly Yacht Club 21' Restricted Class (assigned the letter C as sail number prefix). Saracen's sail number was C-6. See Beverly Yacht Club yearbooks for more information on class." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 23, 2009.)
Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.
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