HMCo #716s Samuri [Samurai]

"[1912-10-21] Mon 21: Went to NY by train to see H.S. Vanderbilt. ...
[1912-10-22] Tue 22: Meeting of 50 footers occurs at noon. Returned home in PM.
[1913-02-08] Sat 8: Set up No. 716 [NY50 Samuri].
[1913-04-27] Sun 27: Fog early. Viking tows away 3 of the new 50 footers. [They were #711s Ventura owned by George F Baker, Jr., #713s Iroquois owned by Ralph N Ellis, and #716s Samuri owned by William Earl Dodge, according to the Bristol Phoenix of April 29, 1913, p. 2.]
[1913-05-15] Thu 15: Eight of the 50 footers have been delivered and [have] left.
[1913-08-23] Sat 23: Fresh SSW [wind]. Start at 11 for cruise to eastward. Go down Bay in company of Roamer [#215p] & Dianthus [#289p]. See start of race of 50 footers, then outside. Rough sea. ...
[1915-08-05] Thu 5: Fresh NNW [wind] & cool & overcast. 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." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1912 to 1915. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Sept[ember] 24 1912.
Nos. 711 - 712 - 713 714 - 715 - 716 - 717 [#711s Ventura, #712s Spartan, #713s Iroquois II, #714s Pleione, #715s Grayling, #716s Samuri, #717s Barbara (and #720s Acushla, #721s Carolina II)].
50ft w.l. Class N.Y.Y.C.
Frame spaces 18".
Sheer height given is to under side of deck. Deck 1 3/4".
In making moulds deduct
for planking 1 3/4"
for timbers at head 2 1/2" increasing 5/64" per foot for full length
[Total] 4 1/4"
Keel to lay on top of lead, and 5 3/8" with rabbate 1 1/2" above bottom." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Handwritten (in ink) notes in Offset Booklet HH.4.179.] September 24, 1912. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"N. G. HERRESHOFF BRISTOL, R. I. Aug 22, 1931 {1931/08/22} Dear Francis, ... Andiamo is evidently rigged for light weather sailing, as she makes but poor showing in a breeze, and I believe w'ld average up better with not quite so lofty rig. ... Your affect, Father." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 7: Letter from N. G. Herreshoff to L. F. Herreshoff.)

"In the fall of 1912, we had orders for the noted New York Yacht Club Fifty Foot Class ..." (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. 72.)

"August 20, 1931. {1931/08/20} Dear Father: I want to congratulate you on the success of the Andiamo. She seems to remarkably fast in light weather now and has a large lapping jib that goes nearly to her mast head. When she gets this set right in very light weather she can take care of the Burgess "M" boats quite handily. When there is some wind Istalena seems to beat them." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 7: Letter from L. F. Herreshoff to N. G. Herreshoff.)

"L. FRANCIS HERRESHOFF 20 LEE STREET MARBLEHEAD, MASS. Ans - Sept 20. {1931/09/20} ... Dear Father:- I have your letter of August 22, {1931/08/22} for which I thank you. I certainly agree with you that Andiamos rig could be improved for average conditions. In fact, I believe some of her mast and rigging are quite crude. However, for light wind it might be hard to make her go any faster, as she had very nice new sails, and her big jibs were used much more appropriately, or scientificly, than on some of the other M which apparently used very poor judgment in light air." (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 7: Letter from L. F. Herreshoff to N. G. Herreshoff.)

"... the most important work of the Herreshoff Company for 1913 was the one-design class of New York Yacht Club Fifties for there were nine of this one-design class built that winter, which seems strange these days when a yacht of the same overall length recently built cost over two hundred thousand dollars. Although the Fifties were of about the best material and workmanship that ever went into yachts of their size, they were so efficiently built that it is said they only cost approximately seventeen thousand dollars apiece in 1913. The general dimensions of these Fifties were: L.O.A., seventy-two feet; L.W.L., fifty feet; beam, fourteen feet six inches; draft, nine feet nine inches. ...
The Fifties were raced very hotly the first two years but had few protests and no serious collisions. The author raced on 'Barbara' many races the first two years and can say that under their original rig they were fine, comfortable racing yachts when they had a crew of four or more professionals, but after World War I they were too expensive to run even if good crews had been available so several were changed to yawls or schooners, or leg-o'-mutton sloops. However, the Astor Cup for sloops has been won by one or another of them about nine times, ..." (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. 283-284.)

"The New York Yacht Club Fifties came out in 1913, and perhaps this was the largest class of sizeable one-design yachts the world has ever seen. There were nine of them with the dimensions of 72' LOA; 50' LWL; 14.5' beam; 9.75' draft. ... The Fifties raced very hotly the first few years and made some very close starts, and as I remember it there were few protests and no serious collisions. I raced on the one named Barbara [#717s] many times; she was handled by Bob Emmons who had owned Avenger and was to be the manager of the next cup defender Resolute. One or another of the Fifties won the Astor Cup nine times under a sloop rig, and, as Pleione [#714s] had won four Astor Cups under a schooner rig, this makes by far the greatest number of times these cups were won by vessels of the same model. In my opinion the Fifties were about the last high-grade, reasonably-priced yachts built. They were 72' OA, and of late years there have been several yachts built with this same length on deck that cost fifteen times as much while the cost of clothes, food and real estate has only increased some three times. Some of the reasons for this great difference in cost of yachts now and in the year the Fifties were built (and that year happened to be the year the income tax started) are as follows:
1. The Fifties were designed and built completely --- sails, spars, rigging, hull, and so forth, by one concern. The only things I can think of now that the builders did not make were the stoves, water-closets, and the larger rigging blocks.
2. Good plant management is the principal way of decreasing the cost of building yachts and, while this can only be learned by experience and the use of common sense, it is a fact that in those days there were two or three yacht yards that were well managed. One of the simple things of good management was to have all of the materials on hand before they were needed, and in those days the yacht yards carried an inventory of materials at least ten times as large as at present. This often allowed them to buy at considerable reduction in price.
3. The spirit, or enthusiasm and pride, of the workmen were important factors in building yachts quickly and well, and I do not know how this was arranged but, I do know that the workers were almost all paid different wages according to their accomplishments.
At present, almost all yachts are designed by one concern and assembled by another. This makes for never-ending complication and, as the designing concern is paid its commission based on the cost of the yacht, they seem to do little nowadays to simplify the construction. I have used the word 'assemble' to describe what was once called 'building a yacht' for today we even hear of yachts' keels being cast hundreds of miles away instead of the mold being set up on the stocks where the yacht is to be built, while the other parts of the yacht may be made by ten or more distant concerns. In the meantime, the art of yacht building, which has taken thousands of years to develop, is lost, and materials such as laminated wood and plastics are substituted in an effort to get around this lack of know-how, but the weight and cost of these materials is so much more than natural wood that the result is not very satisfactory.
As for the workers, they are paid alike and seem to try to make the job last as long as possible. Some of them who wouldn't know an adz if they stumbled over it, try pretty hard to master the new techniques and only time will tell if they will be successful. The modern worker hates all hand tools simply because he does not know how to sharpen or lubricate them, but I have known men who could swing a broad ax all day and every time the ax struck it would lop off a shaving you could cook a breakfast with. These men hewed so close to the line that to finish the job, be it straight, curved or rounded, it only took a few strokes with a well-sharpened plane whose sole was rubbed with paraffin. And that is how yachts were built in those times which is quite different from the present when workmen only want to work with materials they can finish with a power sander.
I have used all these words to try to explain why the New York Yacht Club Fifties cost only $17,000.00 while three or four modern yachts of the same length cost $250,000.00.
For crew the Fifties had a captain, two sailors and a steward but, even by their second year (and second year of the income tax) several of the owners complained about the cost of running them, and that was one of the reasons the New York Yacht Club Forties came into existence a few years later." (Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. An Introduction to Yachting. New York, 1963, p. 175.)

"[Abstract of register or enrollment. Pos. 843:]
Samuri, sloop yacht, of Bristol.
Built at Bristol, 1913.
25 tons; 57 ft. x 14.5 ft. x 9.2 ft. [Register length x breadth x depth.]
One deck, one mast, overhanging head [bow].
Enr[olled] and Lic[ensed] (consolidated) ([as] yacht) Apr. 19, 1913. Owner: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol. Master: John B. Herreshoff, Bristol.
Surrendered [license] Apr. 6, 1914 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. Samuri.)

"Capt Nat Herreshoff gave the new 50 foot racing sloop Iroquois II [#713s], recently built at the Herreshoff boat shops, a trial spin in the harbor, Friday [April 25, 1913] afternoon. Ralph N Ellis of the New York Yacht Club is the owner. The Iroquois II and two other 50 footers, the Samuri [#716s], owned by William Earl Dodge, and the Ventura [#711s], owned by George F Baker, Jr, of the New York Yacht Club, and built by the Herreshoffs, sailed for Glen Cove Saturday." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, April 29, 1913, p. 2.)

"... With the exception of Carolina [#721s], owned by Vice Commodore George Nichols of the New York Yacht Club, all the N. Y. Y. C. one-design 50-footers have changed owners within the last year. F. D. M. Strachan has sold his Harpoon [#720s ex-Acushla] to L. V. Lockwood of the N. Y. Y. C, Harry B Plant the Spartan [#712s] to Carroll B. Alker. Commodore Ralph Ellis of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club the Iroquois II [#713s] to Vice Commodore Paul Hammond of the same club, Frank B. Paine of Boston the Barbara [#717s] to Isaac B. Merriman of the N. Y. Y. C., the Pleione [#714s] to Kenneth F. Wood of Saylerville, R. I. and L F Crofoot of Omaha, a member of the Eastern Yacht Club, the Virginia [#716s] to Walter K. Shaw of the same club. These transfers were all made since the close of the 1923 season, while Clifford D. Mallory purchased the Grayling [#715s] from former Commodore J. P. Morgan early this year and in June former commodore Aemillus Jarvis of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club of Toronto purchased the Istalena [#711s] and had her converted to schooner rig. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." Boston Globe, December 2, 1923, p. 41.)

"The Yacht Andiamo, one of the New York Yacht Club 50-footers, owned by W. K. Shaw, Boston, which has been stored at Walker's Cove for the winter, was launched by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Tuesday. The boat will be placed in commission May 15 in command of Capt Gust Olsen." (Source: Anon. "Bristol and Vicinity." Bristol Phoenix, May 2, 1924, p. 2.)

"... Walter K. Shaw of the Eastern Yacht Club, who purchased the New York Y. C. 50-footer Virginia last Fall from L. F. Crofoot of Omaha, has renamed the big single sticker Andiamo, which is understood to mean 'let's go' in Italian. Andiamo was first known as Samurai; thus in the course of her 11 years afloat, she has had Japanese, English and Italian names. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." Boston Globe, May 18, 1924, p. 66.)

"Andiamo, with her new jib-headed mainsail rig, sports the tallest 'Marconi' mast ever seen at Marblehead in a sloop. The change in the rig of this New York 50-footer, owned by Walter K. Shaw of Boston, was made
at Herreshoff's, and is based on that which was given Commodore George Nichol's Carolina [#721s] for the King's Cup and Astor Cup for sloops races of Newport two or three years ago. In her first race with the new rig, in very light airs and calms, around Cape, Cod from Newport to Marblehead, the Andiamo was not able to make as good time as the 40-footer Shawara [#780s]." (Source: Anon. "Notes from the Week's Log." Boston Globe, July 4, 1926, p. B51.)

"46 FT. CLASS M
[#1058s] M-1 Prestige, Harold S. Vanderbilt
[#715s] M-4 Ibis, Hendon Chubb
[#721s] M-5 Carolina, George Nichols
[W. S. Burgess-designed, A&R-built] M-7 Valiant, Winthrop W. Aldrich
[#716s] M-8 Andiamo, W. K. Shaw." (Source: Anon. "Racing Numbers Long Island Sound Yacht Racing Association." Rudder, August 1928, p. 102.)

"Many yachts are being laid up at the Herreshoff Company's yards at Walker's Cove. ... The 50-footer Andiamo [#716s ex-Samuri] and the schooner yacht Charmian are hauled out in the yards. ..." (Source: Anon. "Many Yachts Being Laid Up For Winter. Herreshoff Company and S. C. Wardwell Busy Storing Boats At the Yards in This Town." Bristol Phoenix, October 5, 1928, p. 1.)

"MAJ. GEN. Bryant E. Moore of Belfast, new array public information service officer, got in some sailing in Union River, Ellsworth, in July in his Star Class sloop which he shipped from Italy to Maine. ...
The general is having his 70-foot schooner Andiano [sic, i.e. Andiamo] ketch rigged in Maine. She is a New York 50. [Note: Moore died after a helicopter crash in Korea in 1951.]" (Source: Anon. "Star Shipped from Italy." Motor Boating, September 1948, p. 107.)

"Well up [Marblehead] harbor lay two of Herreshoff's New York 50s: Andiamo, rerigged as an M-class sloop and owned by Walter K. Shaw; and Joe Santry's Pleione [#714s], for which L. Francis Herreshoff had provided a modern staysail schooner rig. (Both were outstanding performers on the New York Yacht Club cruises of that era [the late 1920s and early 1930s].)
Incidentally, all of the above craft maneuvered under sail alone when making their moorings in the fresh afternoon sou'wester which always draws through the harbor. It was routine to drop the jib and shoot for the mooring, dropping the main when head to wind and stopping the boat dead in the water with the bow exactly over the mooring buoy --- the pennant of which was then picked up and secured to the bitt. In the better- managed yachts, the main was off the boom and bagged by the time the buoy was reached.
Andiamo, with her towering rig (she was 72' overall, so the mast must have been at least 100' above the deck), always kept one in suspense, for after dropping her main she had to shoot almost the full length of the harbor, threading her way through the rest of the fleet. Would she make it? She always did." (Source: Bergeson, Lloyd. "Getting Started Under Sail." Wooden Boat #116, January/February 1994, p. 31.)

"... Malabar XIII, 1945. When John Alden built a boat for himself, he named it Malabar. We built the last one, a ketch named Malabar XIII, for him out of the material we salvaged off a Herreshoff New York 50, the Andiamo. There wasn't much market for those big one-design sloops. Racing those boats went out of fashion, and so they were kicking around. They weren't particularly good for cruising; they were too heavily canvased; you would have had to build them all over.
A fellow named [Edgar Howard] Reed down in Boothbay Harbor bought up a lot of those [types of] boats. He and his younger brother owned a big screw company, Reed & Prince. He didn't use them all, but it was his hobby to paint them up every spring, take them out for a little while, bring them back, and take out another one. And that one, the Andiamo, was in that fleet.
Just at the very end of the war, just before I went into the service, we dismantled the Andiamo, taking the lead keel and stripping cleats, turnbuckles, and so on, for the Malabar XIII. You couldn't buy such things at that time. We took the nuts and washers off her ballast bolts and backed the bolts down in the mud --- we'd docked her in the mud. We backed them down far enough to put wooden plugs in the holes, and then we let the tide come in. Without nuts on the bolts to hold the keel, it dropped off, and that boat popped out of the water and laid on her side. She was a good-sized boat. I didn't see Malabar XIII launched because I joined the Navy in June 1945. John Alden raced her in the Fastnet Race in 1951, and it was during that race that one of Andiamo's turn-buckles let go and dismasted her. ..." (Source: Rumsey, Barbara. "Jim Stevens. Fifty Years a Boatbuilder." Wooden Boat #166, May/June 2002, p. 59-60.)

"... three remarkable Swedish-born brothers: Herby, Walter, and Martin Jackson, whose place in American yachting history is admiringly discussed in Waldo Howland's book A Life in Boats: The Years Before the War. Herby, the oldest Jackson brother, left Prestige [#1058s] in 1929 to become the professional on Walter K Shaw's M-boat Andiamo, a converted New York 50, in Marblehead. Without auxiliary power, shooting the mooring on an M-boat was always a chancy proposition. Over the years, Andiamo ran down and sank more than one bright-finished Lawley tender that had hung on her mooring pendant. My father recalls being invited by Capt. Jackson to take an afternoon busman's holiday sail on Andiamo before she went to Neponset for winter layup. Sailing back to Marblehead Harbor in a moderate southwesterly, Jackson instructed Pa to aim the closehauled sloop directly toward the dining room of the Rockmere Hotel, then, at the last possible moment, to put the helm hard over ('Harder, boy, harder!'), and, finally, to steer for the bright Lawley tender bobbing at the mooring hundreds of feet up the harbor. Down came the jib, down the staysail. Down clattered the main. Still Andiamo pushed forward. Forward. For...ward. Andiamo came to a full stop within comfortable reach by boathook of the mooring and with not even a nudge to the tender. A glorious memory for my father, now 91 years old. Just another afternoon outing for Capt. Herby Jackson, who now sails in Valhalla. ...
... cruising in Maine in 1954, ... I encountered ... Andiamo, ..., lying derelict at the tide line at Bucks Harbor. She had been stripped of her lead and bronze fittings in World War II and left to the elements. (The lead keel had been removed after the war and recast as the ballast for John Alden's ketch-rigged MALABAR XIII.) ..." (Source: Howland III, Llewellyn. "The Universal Rule M-Boats. Precursors of the Mighty J-class." Wooden Boat #174, September/October 2003, p. 81.)

"At 72 feet overall, the New York 50s were among the largest Herreshoff sailing hulls to be built upside down and entirely of wood construction. They were built in a kind of production line. While one hull was being planked, the previous one, turned upright, was having its interior and deck installed. This same two-boat cycle was repeated all during the winter and spring of 1912-1913, until the last of the nine New York 50s slid overboard from the North Construction Shop's launching ways.
Like all but the smallest Herreshoff-built wood-hulled racing yachts, the New York 50s were double-planked and diagonally strapped with metal, which gave them unusual strength for their weight. ..." (Source: Bray, Maynard and Carlton Pinheiro. Herreshoff of Bristol. Brooklin, Maine, 1989, p. 103.)

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"[Item Description:] HH.5.02148 (029-054). Blueprint preliminary general arrangement plan with plan view and inboard profile titled 'Sloop. WL about 50ft. Scale 3/8in = 1ft. Sept[ember] 16 - 1912'. Marked in pencil 'Standard Arrangement for 50ft Class [New York 50 class: #711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s and #721s]'." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0143. WRDT08, Folder 12, formerly MRDE02. 1912-09-16.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with weight calculations titled '50 w.l. Sloops. Measured at 51.5[t] LWL (LWL is 2 1/2 inches above the designed w.l. of 50!). Sept 22, 1912. From finished model. Nos. 711-12-13-14-15-16-17-20&21 [#711s VENTURA, #712s SPARTAN, #713s IROQUOIS II, #714s PLEIONE, #715s GRAYLING, #716s SAMURI, #717s BARBARA, #720s ACUSHLA, #721s CAROLINA II]'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_00890. Folder [no #]. 1912-09-22.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with weight calculations titled '#711 & class. 50 w.l. Sloops. Referred to designed w.l. of 50ft. Scale 1/2in. From finished model. Nos. 711-12-13-14-15-16-17 [#711s VENTURA, #712s SPARTAN, #713s IROQUOIS II, #714s PLEIONE, #715s GRAYLING, #716s SAMURI, #717s BARBARA, #720s ACUSHLA, #721s CAROLINA II]. Sept 22, 1912'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_00910. Folder [no #]. 1912-09-22.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections on partially very creased paper titled 'No 711 & class [#711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s]. Scale 1in & 1/12in. Sept[ember] 24, 1912'. Wth calculations showing required lead of 37410lbs at .576 of 50ft w.l." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03790. Folder [no #]. 1912-09-24.)
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"[Item Description:] Blueprint table titled 'Program - Construction No. 711 Class. 1912-1913' with a detailed building time schedule for #711s VENTURA, #712s SPARTAN, #713s IROQUOIS II, #714s PLEIONE, #715s GRAYLING, #716s SAMURI, #717s BARBARA with planned dates and durations for 'Begin Work on Keel and Foundation', 'Setup Frames and Lead Mould', 'Begin Planking and Cast Lead', 'Turn Over and Set on Lead', 'Launch', 'Begin to Rig' and 'Delivery'. Including some penciled-in dates. (Note that actual building times turned out to be substantially shorter than initially envisioned.) Undated, between September 13, 1912 when these boats were contracted for and October 14, 1912, the first date on this plan." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Blueprint Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE03_03440. Folder [no #]. No date (between 1912-09-13 and 1912-10-14).)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan 76-111. Photostat construction plan with inboard profile, plan view, sections and scantlings titled '72ft overall, 50ft w.l., 14ft 6in beam, 9ft 9in br' for the NY50 class (#711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s)." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (creator). Photostat Construction Plan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0164. WRDT08, Folder 15, formerly MRDE02. 1913-04-21.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with pinpricks and radials titled '711 Class [#711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s]. 50 footers. Oct[ober] 2 1913'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0392. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. 1913-10-02.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Order book with carbon copy duplicates of instructions given by NGH. Relevant contents:
§51: Work Order [For] #711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s. [When wanted] Soon. Plow steel wire (1912-10-05)." (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:] HMCo Plan 74-75. Blueprint detail plan titled 'Quick Working Shackles for Blocks Hal & Double Sheets. Job 1-336. Mentioned vessels include: #711s, #712s, #713s, #714s, #715s, #716s, #717s, #720s, #721s, #773s, #774s, #775s, #776s, #777s, #778s, #779s, #780s, #781s, #782s, #783s, #804s, #891s, #955s, and #983s." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (Newman, H.F.) (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0184. WRDT08, Folder 17, formerly MRDE06. 1923-03-12.)
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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 Transcription:] I thank you for yours of the 5th inst. regarding the rig for the '50's' [and thus for #721s CAROLINA].
One-design racing in this Class seems to be at a low ebb. Mallory [owner of #715s MYSTIC ex-GRAYLING] plans to stick 8 feet onto his present mast and to leave the fore triangle as at present, thereby, I should think, producing a result that is neither one thing or the other. Hanan, to whom expense means nothing, has proposed leaving 'SPARTAN' [#712s] as she is, but wants permission to carry seven paid hands. Paul Hammond still owns 'Iroquois' [#713s], and I believe hopes to sell her, but is holding her at a very high price. Shaw [owner of #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI], I understand, has ordered from someone in Boston a mast some 10 feet longer than my Marconi. Whether or not he has ordered the rest of the rig, I do not know, but he is not a racing man and what he does or does not do is of little importance to the Class. Hanan, who has been cruising in the West Indies, is expected home in a few days when I hope to see him and make some arrangement for the coming Summer. [incl. envelope]" (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_30220. Subject Files, Folder 27, formerly 10-15. 1925-03-09.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I thank you for your letter of the 14th enclosing Mr. [Walter K.] Shaw's letter [regarding a change of rig for his NY50 #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI] which I am returning herewith.
As Mr. Shaw does not race, his rig does not interest me except to the extent that I may learn something from observing his experiments, and as he has very positive opinions, it is difficult to discuss matters with him in advance.
I have put some of my thoughts on the subject of rig [for #721s CAROLINA] up to Mr. Nat, and he may speak to you about them if he thinks they are any good." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to Brightman, Tom. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29960. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1925-10-15.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am glad to have your letter of the 14th this morning, as also Mr. Shaw's from the shop.
Mr. Shaw [the owner of #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI], so far as I know, is not a racing man so that what he does or does not do [with ANDIAMO's rig] has only academic interest [regarding my decisions concerning the rig for #721s CAROLINA].
I never counted the pieces of brass, but as a practical matter, feel sure that four good men can keep a [New York] 50 clean without unduly exerting themselves. The fact is, I always thought that a reasonable amount of brass was a good thing in that it gives the men some little occupation.
It has also been my experience that the only time when the six men are really needed is for smart handling around marks or of course in some sudden and unforeseen emergency. The mainsail and club topsail once set take care of themselves in ordinary racing situations. Where the men are needed is in handling light sails and back-stays. In other words, if we grant that four men can handle a 50 Footer satisfactorily in cruising, the two extra men in the racing crew are necessary for the head sails --- not the mainsail and club topsail. The proper handling of these latter depends much more on the skill and judgment of the skipper than the number of his crew. Your experience is so very much greater than mine that I should be interested to know how far you agree with me.
Am returning Mr. Shaw's letter and note accompanying it, of which I enclose a copy." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29970. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1925-10-15.)
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"[Item Transcription:] On stationery from 'The New Colonial [Hotel in] Nassau Bahamas': much disappointed not to be with you today but this port is much wrought up over small pox in Florida & is strictly quaratined so I plan to return to N.Y. direct via first steamer probably on Tuesday.
Starling [Burgess] has designed a new rig for Mr. [Walter K.] Shaw for [#716s] ANDIAMO [ex-SAMURI] about as follows: [dimensioned sketch of marconi rigged NY50]. Mr Shaw asked Mr. Hanan [owner or #712s SPARTAN] & me [owner of #721s CAROLINA] to join him. I told Mr. Hanan I planned to sail CAROLINA with her 1919 rig with only moderate changes. He asked if I would assume rating so as to sail him even which I said I would not. He asked me to get you to design him a new rig for SPARTAN leaving[?] the time scale in mind. I gave him your address & told him to write you himself. What he wanted to do was to prevent my getting a better rig from you than himself. It looks as if the [New York] 50's would not be rigged one design this summer but would race every one for himself. Starling's rig will cost about $7,500 which is more money than I have to spend. I hope to race with 4 paid hands a loose footed jib & no jib topsail. Butler [Duncan] thinks the idea no good against Starling's rig. Can it be done? Have written this in five minutes as mail is closing on NASSAUVIAN [the 160ft LOA mailboat carrying mail between Nassau and Miami]." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29920. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1926-01-23.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I was very glad to get your letter of the 7th of February.
I could not see Clinton Crane's argument myself, but thought it might be my own stupidity. As you can't either, I naturally feel better about it.
I have engaged Emil Nelson for 'CAROLINA' [#721s], who will try to get two good men, and with my cook of two years ago, who wants to come back, will have a full crew.
The jib is going to be quite a big sail. I have worked one out, using the same height you have, but shortening the base line about 3 1/2 feet. I did not altogether like the result, as I feared she would carry too much weather helm. What would you think of lifting the main boom at the mast a foot or possibly 18 inches? A little measurement would be saved that way, and I do not suppose the lower part of the sail is very effective.
I have been looking over some photographs of the rig and find there is a noticeable curve aft in the middle. With the head-stay 12 feet higher, the tendency to do this would seem to increase. I asked Sidney what he thought of putting a batten on the after side to carry the track, which he said would do some good, but suggested that it might be better to saw the mast down and put an extra section in the middle, thus making it elliptical. Laterally, according to the photographs, the mast stood very straight, so I suppose it will be all right to use the same spreaders and rigging, although the head-stay will now come somewhat above the upper spreader instead of somewhat below it.
The single sheave on the main halyard was a good deal of a nuisance in that the whip was always twisting up. Starling [Burgess], for [Walter K.] Shaw [owner of #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI], has worked out a contrivance with a double sheave at the masthead and a block for the head of the sail that runs on the track. Merriman is making the thing and could make me a second one at very moderate cost. I will send you the sketches and see what you think about it. If this were used, one end of the main halyard could be a straight pulling part and the other go to a jig or winch.
Will you also give me your ideas as to runner gear and jib sheets? I would like to get the details of the rig worked out as soon as I can so that any necessary blocks or material can be ordered and ready before the rush starts. I hope to get in commission by Decoration Day, or even somewhat earlier.
Janie is still off with her Father, but I hope she will be home a week from today.
We have had a great deal of snow and bad weather, and I envy you being out of it. I hope that you and Mrs. Herreshoff keep well. Please give her my kindest regards." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29840. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1926-02-24.)
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"[Item Transcription:] I am glad to hear from George Cormack this morning that he highly approves the details regarding your prize [the Herreshoff Medal] as you have worked them out, and that it will be presented to the Club at the May meeting. I feel sure it will be received with great enthusiasm.
I will mail you tonight a blue-print received from Bristol showing the outline of 'CAROLINA's' [#721s] new rig. I am a little worried about the size of the jib --- not that I anticipate any serious trouble in trimming it, but because I fear the added strain on the runners and, more particularly, their chain plates.
The sketch shows a single spreader. As we already have the double spreaders and the rigging to go with them, is it worth while to make the change? The staying plan is, of course, not worked out on this sketch. Would you sketch me out your suggestion? Aside from Mr. [Walter K.] Shaw [owner of #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI], who may go on the [NYYC] cruise and sail for the important Cups, it seems doubtful whether I shall have any competition, so I am hesitating a little between this rigging and your suggestion of use of the regular mast fore triangle with a triangular mainsail. In this latter case, could a wire jack stay along the after side of the mast be set up tight enough with a turn buckle in the deck to hold the mainsail from the spreaders up? Below the spreaders, regular mast hoops or a lacing could be used. Possibly above the masthead, a few hoops could also be used, that the sail could be hooked as it is hoisted by a man aloft, in such a way that they would clear themselves as it is lowered? A scheme such as this would obviate removal of the iron work on the mast and scarring it up by screwing on a track.
I do not feel it worth while to make any very serious effort to compete with Mr. Shaw, for, while I shall doubtless feel badly at the time if he walks off with the Astor and King's Cups [Nichols and CAROLINA would win the 1926 Astor Cup for sloops], the chance of his starting for them is extremely problematical. Two years ago, you will remember, he brought out his boat for a season's racing. He was involved in a protest the second time he started, and the newspapers reported his time at the finish some seconds differently from what he had timed it himself. The difference in time did not involve any difference in position, but the two circumstances combined so annoyed him that he started in only one more race that season and, if my memory serves, dropped out of that. I very much like the man personally and admire his experiments, but what he really enjoys is sailing and making port to port passages, and he is sufficiently independent in thought not to race unless he happens to feel like it when the time comes, even though he has spent a lot of time and money in preparing to do so.
Ralph Ellis [former owner of #713s IROQUOIS II] has been playing with the idea of buying back a 50 Footer, but has telegraphed me that he will not come to any decision until his arrival from California the latter part of May, and probably will not do so.
Mr. Hanan [owner of #712s SPARTAN] has talked of coming out and may very likely do so for a short time, but is not preparing a serious racing season.
Am much interested in the new 'PLEASURE' for Mr. Mallinckrodt [#1002s AIDA], and was glad to hear from Charles [Nystrom], who was here yesterday, that you had sent him instructions about her. Mr. Mallinckrodt brought me a list of second-hand boats which he was considering, but it did not seem to me that any of them was quite satisfactory to his needs, so I persuaded him to give an order for a new one, and naturally feel much interested and, to some extent, responsible.
My kindest regards to Mrs. Herreshoff.
I hope you have arranged 'PLEASURE's' [#907s] insurance to your satisfaction. If there is anything more I can do about it, please let me know." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_30530. Subject Files, Folder 27, formerly 10-15. 1926-04-29.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Handwritten (in ink) trials booklet titled '1911. Trial Trips and Experiments'. Relevant contents:
§17: #191303ep [POWER TENDER FOR #716s SAMURI] Trial Run average speed 6.31mph (1913-05-21)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator) and Herreshoff, A. Sidney deW. (creator). Trials Booklet. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE07_04280. Folder [no #]. 1911-06 to 1926-05.)
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"[Item Transcription:] Am sending you under separate cover a picture of CAROLINA [#721s] racing off Marblehead on July 4th. The picture was taken within a few yards of the weather mark, which we rounded just ahead of ANDIAMO [#716s ex-SAMURI]. The breeze had been very light until about ten minutes before the picture was taken. The mainsail has three short battens only. The marks on the sail are the darker cloth where the other batten pockets were taken off.
By moving in the masthead shrouds on the spreaders and carrying them very slack, the mast stands well enough and the rig is certainly a very handy one.
I hope that you and Mrs. Herreshoff will come out on CORSAIR for the Astor Cup next week Thursday. I asked Butler [Duncan], who is Fleet Captain, to send you a formal invitation which should have included Agnes." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29710. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1926-08-10.)
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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 Description:] Brokerage listing (File No. 877) for #716s ANDIAMO ex-SAMURI. Dimensions, particulars (Location: Marblehead, Sails: 1936, Price: $20,000). Undated, a penciled note in the upper right corner suggests 'Oct 37' (although this may also be a reference to the date she was sold)." (Source: Belknap & Paine, Yacht Brokers (creator). Broker Listing. MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.111. Box HAFH.6.3B, Folder Brokers Listings. No date (1937-10 ?).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #716s Samuri [Samurai] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Kleinhans, Lewis. "New York 40s and 50s." In: Schoettle, Edwin J. Sailing Craft. New York, 1928, p. 229-243. (3,032 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: No known copyright restrictions. Class description and history. New York 50 sailing regulations.
• van der Linde, Claas. [Layered Comparison of Model and Plan to Demonstrate Shortening of New York 50 by Two Feet after the model had been made.] February 25, 2022. (747 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Claas van der Linde. Clinton Crane, in his 1952 'Yachting Memories' (p. 102) wrote 'In the New York Fifties [NGH] shortened the stern to bring them inside the amount which the new owners were willing to pay, so that they were never as good looking as they might have been.' This shortening by 24 inches can be seen by overlaying the construction plan with the model which then clearly shows the model's slender stern extending beyond the boat's plan profile. At HMCo vessel profiles for a plan were usually created by simply placing the model onto the plan and then tracing a pencil around the model's outline. It appears that the extended stern on this drawing was then simply erased --- hence the spot of lighter color at the transom. This is a layered document which allows clicking on and off overlaid transparent layers to reveal different parts of the image.

• Samuri (HMCo-made index card)
• Samuri (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: Samuri
Type: Cutter
Length: 50'
Owner: Dodge, W. E.

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

• Spartan and Samuri
• Samuri
• Andiamo ex-Samuri
• Virginia ex-Samuri
• 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: Samuri
Type: 50' sloop
Owner: William Earl Dodge
Year: 1913
Row No.: 589

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: Sept
Day: 13
Year: 1912
E/P/S: S
No.: 0716
Name: Samuri
LW: 50'
B: 14' 7"
D: 9' 9"
Rig: Cutter
K: y
Ballast: Lead O.
Amount: 14250.00 [sic, i.e. 14520]
Notes Constr. Record: Virginia Andiamo [written in above "Samuri"]
Last Name: Dodge
First Name: W. E.

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.

"Sail number NY 2." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. April 29, 2009.)

"Sail number 52 in 1916 with the numeral in black and the initials N.Y.Y.C. in a semi-circle half way around the numerals and above as per the New York Herald of May 17, 1916, p. 13." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 11, 2012.)

"Universal Rule Class L and marconi-rigged in 1927, because, unlike the other marconi-rigged NY50s, she carried too much sail area. In subsequent years she raced in Class M." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 10, 2012.)

"Sail no. M-8 in 1928 as per Rudder, August 1928, p. 102." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 3, 2015.)

"Andiamo ex-Samuri was stripped of her hardware and lead ballast keel in 1945 in East Boothbay, Maine at the Goudy & Stevens boatyard which used much of it for the building of the last of John Alden's Malabars, Malabar XIII. However, that was apparently not the end of her, for she was subsequently reported to have been owned by Bryant E. Moore of Belfast, Maine who died in 1951. Two years later, in 1953, the U.S. List of Merchant Vessels reported her to be owned by Clifford A. Priest of Bangor, Maine. Priest (1918-2011), originally from Haverhill, Mass., was a former B-17 navigator who in 1947 had been reported in the press as using his old 60' cutter Kiowa as living quarters in Bangor, Maine while studying at the nearby University of Maine. We may assume that he used Andiamo in a similar function and that he was Andiamo's last owner." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. February 27, 2015.)

"Given a launch schedule of one NY50 every 18 to 20 days, Samuri is estimated to have been launched around Saturday March 15, 1913. NGH was in Bermuda at that time which would explain the lack of a corresponding launching note in his diary." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. May 30, 2014.)

"Built in 183 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $79/day, 409 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Sail area 3416 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 1169 cubic foot [= 74,816 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 is about 74,000 lb. of which about 35,500 lb. is the lead ballast." (Source: McClave, Ed. "The Restoration of the HMCo 'New York Fifty' Spartan." In: Herreshoff Marine Museum (Publisher). Proceedings. The Classic Yacht Symposium 2010. Bristol, R.I. 2010, p. 149-158.)

"Abandoned in Bucks Harbor, Me. after having been stripped for her lead for the Alden schooner Malabar XIII." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. September 28, 2015.)

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