HMCo #892s Grayling

"[1923-02-04] Sun 4: ... At work on model for Q class boat all day, and spoiled it in [the] evening! [This will be #892s Grayling.]
[1923-02-06] Tue 6: Started another model for Q class boat. [For #892s Grayling.]
[1923-02-07] Wed 7: Have order from Mr. J. P. Morgan for Q class boat 30' w.l. [#892s Grayling]." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1923. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"Feb[ruary] 11, 1923.
No. 892.
Q Class. Keel, [Model] Scale 3/4".
Frame spaces 12".
In laying down use common rule for lengths, breadths & depths.
Bottom of keel plank 3/4" below rabbate.
Sheer height is to upper side of deck 7/8" thick.
Planking 15/16" thick.
Timbers 1 7/16"sq. at head, increasing both ways 3/32" per foot for 4" 8", then parallel 1 7/8" sq.
M[ar]ch 1, 1923.
Offsets for guide lines in planking are given in last part of [offset] book.
That marked A is supposed to be at bottom of 5th strake don including sheer strake. Two after hooks had better be included 2 strakes.
Between A & B 4 or 5 strakes.
Between B & C 4 or 5 strakes.
Between C & D 3 or 4 strakes.
Model has shrunk since measuring for frames.
To correct, draw lines for [center symbol?] point, about middle of back of model, thus [sketch with radial lines from point on center line to outside of hull]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.187.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"In 1923 Captain Nat designed the thirty foot water line sloop 'Grayling' for J. P. Morgan, Jr. Mr. Morgan had always been much interested in the New York Yacht Club Thirties and had owned and sailed 'Phryne' for several years, but by 1923 he thought the Thirties were getting old-fashioned and tried to start interest in a new class to take their place. He had 'Grayling' built as a sample boat for this purpose. She was an all-around nice boat and very well built with principal dimensions as follows: forty-six feet three inches O.A.; thirty feet seven inches L.W.L.; nine feet one inch beam, and six feet draft. If this class had been built it would have been a good investment for the owners, for this was just before the prices of yachts increased greatly and while there were still many fine workmen at the Herreshoff Company. But somehow the class did not 'take.' After a year or two 'Grayling' was sold to J. V. Santry of Marblehead and raced in the 'Q' class under the name of 'Spindrift,' a name that was later changed to 'Mary.' She was somewhat smaller than the other yachts of that class and usually finished in the middle of the class." (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. 307.)

"... J. P. Morgan's new Class Q knockabout is nearly completed at Herreshoff's. A new kink in construction has been tried out on this craft, the ribs or frames are rabbeted directly into the lead keel. This has done away with the deadwood, always associated with a keel boat. The Q is about 45 feet over all, with a 35-foot water line. ..." (Source: Anon. "Notes From The Week's Log." Boston Globe, June 3, 1923, p. 71.)

"... It was learned to-day that the new Class Q sloop, which is the property of former Commodore J. P. Morgan, will be entered in the race for the Childs Trophy which is to be sailed on Long Island Sound on Tuesday [July 24, 1923] afternoon under the auspices of the New Rochelle Yacht Club. ... It is believed that Grayling will show some unusual speed qualities when she gets tuned up. She rates a little smaller than the New York Yacht Club thirty-footers, but is said to be able to sail faster. ... One of those very enthusiastic over the Grayling's chances to win the Childs Cup is Vice-Commodore Paul Hammond of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club, who has been sailing on the boat in some of her trial spins.
'She is one of the most beautiful boats I ever saw,' said Commodore Hammond, 'as far as her lines are concerned, and is the speediest I ever sailed on, I think for her size. Herreshoff has turned out a fine yacht in Grayling and I think she will win many races. She is probably the forerunner of a new class. ..." (Source: Lawrence, Seabury. "New Grayling to Try for Childs Trophy." New York Evening Post, July 20, 1923, p. 7.)

"... An incident of the start in the New York thirty-foot class was a bump between former Commodore J. P. Morgan's Grayling [#892s] and J. A. Mahlstedt's Okee [#638s ex-Neola ll], which struck the new Morgan boat on the starboard side, just aft of amidships, smashing in the mahogany rail of the Grayling. The crew on each boat fended them apart before any further damage was done.
On the committee boat it was said that Okee was holding a proper course when the bump occurred. Grayling was not badly enough damaged to cause her skipper to withdraw her from the race, but she was badly defeated. [Grayling sailed against the best of the New York 30s on this day.]..." (Source: Anon. "Banshee Triumphs in Stamford Race. Grayling and Okee Bump." New York Times, September 1, 1923, p. 9.)

"Much interest among yachtsmen attaches to the meeting called by the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound to be held at the New York Yacht Club next Tuesday night for the purpose of discussing a new racing class and the building of additional boats in certain classes which are already racing.
The executive committee of the association has had tha matter of new classed under discussion for several weeks and its findings will be made known at the meeting, which will be attended by those expecting to build new boats for racing during next season.
The classes under consideration are three in number --- Q, R, and S --- all of the sloop type. The first example of the Class Q sloop seen locally was the new Grayling, built by Herreshoff for former Commodore Morgan and which raced last season in regattas at the western end of Long Island Sound. This boat is the largest and most expensive of the new racing types being considered.
Grayling was a vessel of beautiful lines and was much admired by yachtsmen who saw her race. The Q boats, a trifle smaller in measurement than the New York thirties, cost about $9,000 to build and have about the same accommodations as a thirty, which are well equipped for cruising. ..." (Source: Lawrence, Seabury: "Yachtsmen Will Decide On New Racing Classes. Meeting of Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound to Discuss Building of Boats for Next Season." New York Evening Post, November 27, 1923, p. 11.)

"... [The New York 50 #715s] Grayling, now owned by Clifford D. Mallory ..., formerly owned by former Commodore J. P. Morgan, will be renamed, as this name is used for Commodore Morgan's new Class Q sloop [#892s Grayling]." (Source: Anon. "Fifty-Foot Yachts to Race This Year." New York Times, January 13, 1924, p. S4.)

"Former Commodore J. P. Morgan, it was learned yesterday, has sold his Q class racing sloop Grayling to J. V. Santry of the Eastern Yacht Club of Marblehead. Grayling is a Herreshoff product which came out last year and raced on Long Island Sound. She is a beautifully lined sloop about thirty-one feet long on the waterline and seemed to be unusually speedy in light airs. Grayling was the first of a new class of Q boats on the Sound, it was thought, but the class did not develop and Grayling was without a competitor this year until the arrival of Nor'easter II. from Marblehead, on the second day of Larchmont race week.
The fact that former Commodore Morgan has sold [his Q-boat #892s] Grayling does not mean that he and his sons will retire from Long Island Sound racing. They are anxious to get back in their old class, the New York Yacht Club thirty-footers, which is one of the largest and keenest racing classes on the Sound. The thirties are now in their twentieth racing season. When these boats came out Commodore Morgan was the owner of Phryne and for some years enjoyed the sport of racing in this class. ... Although the Q class did not develop on Long Island Sound, possibly because of the interest in the six-meter class this year, it is a good racing class at Marblehead. Grayling is to be delivered to her new owner in time for the Eastern Yacht Club's race week, which begins Aug. 2. With the addition of Grayling to the Marblehead fleet there will be four boats racing in the Q class, and the sport should be very good.
Grayling and Nor'easter II, which is owned by Grafton Wolf of Boston, sailed four races at Larchmont, and the Herreshoff sloop, sailed by Harry Morgan, won three out of the four. All were sailed in light airs." (Source: Anon. "J .P. Morgan Sells Q Sloop Grayling. Disposes of Herreshoff Designed Boat to J. V. Santry of the Eastern Y. C." New York Times, July 29, 1924, p. 13.)

"A fine example of Class Q was former Commodore J. P. Morgan's Grayling, which was built at Herreshoff's in 1923 and raced on Long Island Sound during that season. It was believed when Grayling came out that she would be the forerunner of a fine new class on the Sound, but the type did not develop at that time, and Commodore Morgan sold Grayling last August [1924] to a member of the Eastern Yacht Club of Marblehead. The class has built up well at Marblehead and four of the Q boats raced there late last season. Sloops of this type cost about $11,000 to build." (Source: Anon. "Yachtsmen to Plan for New Boats." New York Times, December 2, 1924, p. 30.)

"... Mr. Davison's boat is Spindrift, formerly Grayling. ...
Spindrift, registered at Port Washington, is a Herreshoff boat, being launched from the Bristol, R. I., yards in 1923. She is 46 feet 4 inches over all, 30 feet on the waterline and 9 feet 1 inch extreme breadth. ..." (Source: Anon. "Other Yachting News." New York Times, February 24, 1929, p. 156.)

"Sparkman & Stephens, Naval architects and yacht brokers, of New York and Boston, report a large number of interesting sales and charters that have been effected during the summer months. This activity in months when the market is normally inactive would indicate that yachtsmen in making commitments are more optimistic about the future than they have been for some little time. Among the sales effected by Sparkman & Stephens are the following: ... The Q class sloop Grayling sold for William E. Larcomb of Perth Amboy, N. J., to Knute Stokes of New York. [The veracity of this note cannot be confirmed and appears doubtful. Grayling was listed as Spindrift in the 1935 Lloyd's Register.] ..." (Source: Anon. "Summer Sales And Charters." Motor Boating, July 1935, p. 97.)

"... New Rochelle Yacht Club regained the Myrick Trophy when Earle Mitchell's converted Class Q sloop Grayling [#892s], winner of the last Bayside-Block Island auxiliary race, beat a small and miscellaneous fleet in a 131-mile race from Riverside to Hicks ledge to Cornfield Lightvessel and back to Riverside. The old New York 30-footer Variant [#633s ex-Carlita] was only two minutes astern." (Source: Anon. "With the Windjammers." Motorboating, October 1941, p. 70.)

"Sailor (or should it be Captain?) Earle [A.] Mitchell, works manager at the Habirshaw plant, has been enjoying a banner yachting season. In his yacht Grayling, skipper Mitchell has romped off with the New Rochelle-Cornfield Lightship race and the Stratford Shoal race to win two important trophies. Mitchell learned his sailing on the Hudson but has made Long island Sound his playground for some time now, and has been doing better than okay.
One of his best seasons was in 1938, when he won first prize at Larchmont Race Week, won the Walter Sullivan Trophy emblematic of the championship of Long Island Sound, copped the American Yacht Club race and several lesser events. Rounding out some 20 years of competitive sailing, Mitchell is getting better all the time." (Source: Fitzgerald, Ed. "Postscripts On Sports. Piping Earle Mitchell Aboard." The Herald Statesman, Yonkers, September 16, 1941, p. 11.)

"1923. ... The yards were busy. Herreshoff was building a class of 11 [#882s Shanendowa, #880s Josephine, #881s Miss Q., #883s Thistle, #884s Fantasy, #885s Viking I, #886s Alert, #887s Pixie, #888s How Come, #889s Althea, #890s Tobasco] of the 15-foot waterline combination keel and centerboard knockabouts for members of the Watch Hill Yacht Club, and putting the modern jib headed, so-called Marconi rig on them, and also had on the stocks the 98-foot steel schooner Wildfire [#891s] for Charles L. Harding of Boston, a 65-foot twin screw cruiser [#380p Esmonda] for Clarence Whitman of New York, and a class Q sloop [#892s Grayling] for J. P. Morgan. ..." (Source: Davis, Jeff. Yachting in Narragansett Bay. Providence, 1946, p. 17.)

"GRAYLING was built for J.P. Morgan Jr. in 1923, as a sample boat, as he attempted to revive the class and to replace the aging NY30s. According to L. Francis Herreshoff, she was a nice all around boat and well built. Her particulars were 46'3" OA, 30'7" LWL, 9'1" Beam, 6' Draft, and 20,000 lbs Displacement. However, in the midst of the depression there was no interest in starting a new class. After two years, she was sold to J.V. Santry of Marblehead and raced as a Q under the name SPINDRIFT, and later changed to MARY. Her name was changed back to GRAYLING sometime after that and remains unchanged to the present. In 1945 GRAYLING was purchased sight unseen by Mr. Gurnie F. Richardson of Tacoma, WA from Mr. Carl Dunn of Wilmington, NC. ... She was shipped to Seattle from City Island NY by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company on deck of the freighter Czechoslovakia Victory. According to Mr. Richardson '…GRAYLING was the family favorite and great for cruising with two small kids. San Juan vacations (were) amongst our best memories…' Eventually the boat was sold to a Boeing engineer, Mr. Muskin, who rebuilt the cabin to include a doghouse, and replaced the toe rails with 8" bulkwards. He also fiberglassed the deck and added life lines to the boat. Also during this time her boom was shortened by 3', effectively reducing the sail area by 11%.This was her look until 1998. Up until then, GRAYLING spent her time racing and cruising the Paciic Northwest waters, and became a familiar sight among yachtsmen. In 1977 Don Wills III ..., purchased GRAYLING from Mr. Troy Unruh and became the next long-term owner. Mr. Wills, and GRAYLING were a familiar sight at many local racing events, including Whidbey Race Week, and brought home many silvers during their time together.
I purchased GRAYLING from Mr. Wills in 1994, in a rather sad state. She was leaking badly due to many broken frames, a broken maststep, and needing house and deck repair caused by the trapped water in the fiberglassed deck. Her hull was sound but needed refastening. For the next couple of years, I replaced the broken maststep, recorked the hull and sailed her with friends. With little funds available, I was fortunate to have met up with Roy Dunbar ..., of Dunbar Marine Service, who carried with him a life time of wooden boat building experience. Starting in 1998, under the guidance and tutelage of Mr. Dunbar, over the next three years in my spare time, he and I (and many friends) completely rebuilt the deck and the cabin top, replaced broken frames, refastened the hull, modernized the hardware, and put GRAYLING back to sailing condition. Now nearly 86 years of age, GRAYLING is still proven competitive under the PHRF-NW racing rule. Her longevity is no doubt a testimony to the skill of one of the greatest yacht designer in history of yachting, N. G. Herreshoff, and the workmen at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. who gave her the best technology and building technique at the time. Acknowledgments also need to go out to all of her previous owners who have lovingly took care of her, and to Roy Dunbar, for all of his guidance and teaching. As her current 'care taker' I have no doubt that GRAYLING will carry on sailing for another 86 years. [Based partly on personal correspondence from Gurnie F. Richardson, Carl Dunn, and Don Wills III.]" (Source: Phan, Duke. "Grayling - The Q of Puget Sound." Anchorline. Newsletter of the Sloop Tavern Yacht Club, Seattle, Washington, September 2009, p. 3.)

"Work fell off in 1923 when the country's economy slumped, and J. P. Morgan, Grayling's first owner of record, may well have been persuaded to sponsor this new boat's design and construction in order to give the shops some much-needed work. (Morgan's son Junius had become a Herreshoff Mfg. Co. stockholder shortly after JBH's death.) Grayling was prototype of a proposed replacement for the venerable Herreshoff New York 30-class sloops, and orders for more boats of Grayling's design would have been welcomed. There was insufficient interest for a new class, however, and this was the only boat built.
All was not lost, because Grayling, while about the same size as the New York 30s, also rated as a Q-boat under the prevailing Universal Rule. She was purchased soon after she was built by J. V. Santry, renamed Spindrift, and joined the spirited Q-boat racing at Marblehead. ...
NGH designed Grayling's lead ballast keel to be an integral part of the boat's structural backbone. (It is rabbeted to receive the garboard planks.) Although this building method is considerably more difficult, it has the advantage of there being no wooden keel timber to check or rot. Building such a hull upside down by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. was still possible, according to Sidney Herreshoff; the garboards were simply left off until the hull was turned right-side up and the rabbeted ballast keel bolted on. This is the same keel construction used in L. Francis Herreshoff's R-class sloop Yankee, built two years later in 1925, and in a number of his subsequent designs." (Source: Bray, Maynard and Carlton Pinheiro. Herreshoff of Bristol. Brooklin, Maine, 1989, p. 162.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled and inked preliminary sailplan titled 'N.G. Herreshoff. Q. Class Design [#892s GRAYLING]. Jan 1923' and marked in pencil 'Not used. See other drawing.' With sail area calculations arriving at totals of 884sqft and 904sqft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0385. WRDT04, Folder 33, formerly MRDE09. 1923-01.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled table titled 'Q class. Jan 19 [1923]' and comparing data for LOA, w.l., B[eam], br[eadth at] w.l., Draft, Displ[acement], wetted s[urface], q.b.l. Max S[ail area] and S[ail area]/w[etted] s[urface] of four designs: 'Model [Model 228]', '96/100 [i.e. model scaled at 96%]', '90/100' and # 891[sic, i.e. #892s GRAYLING]. On verso of printed card by Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDED1_00240. Folder [no #]. No date (1923-02 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with tracing marks titled 'No. 892 [followed by a question mark] [#892s GRAYLING]. From finished model. Every 3rd frame to develop drawing. Feb[ruary] 1923]'. No further notes or calculations." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03520. Folder [no #]. 1923-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Q Class. No. 892 [#892s GRAYLING]. Feb[ruary] 1923'. With notes and calculations, including 'Required 9300lbs of lead with c.g. .543 of w.l.' and 'Result. 9700 lbs lead with c.g. at .539'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03680. Folder [no #]. 1923-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Two sets of penciled pantograph hull sections on sans-serif 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. The first is titled 'Q [#892s GRAYLING]. 1st. Trial. Feb. 4 [19]23' with calculations arriving at a displacement of 310cuft (19840lbs). The second set is titled '2nd [Trial]' and accompanying calculations arrive at a displacement of 302cuft (19328lbs). On verso a third set of penciled pantograph hull sections titled '3rd Trial Feb. 4 [19]23' with calculations arriving at a displacement of 274cuft (17536lbs)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0414. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. 1923-02-04.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections and displacement curve on verso of 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company' stationery. Titled 'From finished model. Q Class #892 [GRAYLING]. Scale 3/4in. 30ft w.l. Feb[ruary] 11, 1923'. With calculations arriving at a total displacment of 276cuft [= 17664lbs] and a wetted surface of 284sqft." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03510. Folder [no #]. 1923-02-11.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with calculations on sans-serif 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery titled '1st. Trial. 29ft w.l. Q [#892s GRAYLING]. March 2nd [1923]. Q.b.l. 27ft 2in'." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0413. WRDT04, Folder 34, formerly MRDE08. (1923)-03-02.)
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"[Item Description:] Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Inc. Tentative Financial Statements for the Period from January 1, 1923 to June 27, 1923. Tentative Comparative Balance sheet as at June 27, 1923 and December 31, 1922. Tentative Statement of Profit and Loss for the Period of January 1, 1923 to June 27, 1923. Including detailed profitabilty statements for several contracts including #380p ESMONDA (C. Whitman), Watch Hill 15s (#880s JOSEPHINE, #881s MISS Q., #882s SHANENDOWA, #883s THISTLE, #884s FANTASY, #885s VIKING I, #886s ALERT, #887s PIXIE, #888s HOW COME, #889s ALTHEA, and #890s TOBASCO), #891s WILDFIRE (C.L. Harding), #892s GRAYLING, 12 1/2-footers #893s COMET Jr. and #894s WREN" (Source: Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery Accountants (creator). Financial Statement. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_50550. Subject Files, Folder [no #], formerly 124?. 1923-07-02.)
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"[Item Description:] heard from Ralph Ellis of the new Q-boat [#892s Grayling] in Long Island Sound and plan to sail on her, Ellis wants to build a one-design class of Q-boats, please provide data, look forward to seeing you at the cruise on #378p HELIANTHUS III, think the 6mR boats will get a sound licking in the Solent" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_18100. Correspondence, Folder 49, formerly 76. 1923-07-05.)
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"[Item Description:] sorry not returning to #378p HELIANTHUS III at Newport on Tuesday, couldn't get off #719s VAGRANT II, #891s WILDFIRE is fast and could easily have won the King's Cup but Harding's handling is not good, eager to see her model and also that of the new #892s GRAYLING" (Source: Cormack, George A. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_18090. Correspondence, Folder 49, formerly 76. 1923-08-27.)
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"[Item Description:] Janie & I thank you very much for your message of sympathy & send our love to you & Mrs. Herreshoff. It has been a terrible shock. It seems such a time ago that Mrs. Morgan was so well & young & full of the joy of life. However, she was spared any conscious illness or pain, or any unusual sorrow for which we should try to be thankful. As to GAME COCK [#932s] I want her in the best possible shape and have asked Tom [Brightman] to do any thing you may direct to put her so, for my account. Junius [Morgan] is cruising for a few days on CORSAIR with his father & [his brother] Harry & hopes to call on you. As I have no use for GAME COCK here until a week from next Saturday at the earliest I asked Tom per telephone this morning to order her back to Bristol & keep her there until Monday, in case Junius should turn up & want to look her over with you & then send her home with my man Chris & Charley Petersen. It is very gratifying that Junius is so pleased with her also that he is so interested in studying design. He is most anxious to persuade you to cut another model so that the Company may build him another boat this winter [this will be #966s GRAYLING] & I hope you may see your way to do it. I was glad to see that [#892s] SPINDRIFT (ex GRAYLING Q) did so well in Buzzards Bay on Tuesday." (Source: Nichols, George. Letter to N.G. Herreshoff. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MR_29980. Subject Files, Folder 26, formerly 10-15. 1925-08-20.)
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"[Item Description:] Typewritten list captioned 'New Q Boats', 'Old Q Boats', 'New R Class boats', and 'Old R Class boats'. Marked in pencil '1926 - (or 25?)'. Providing a list of new and old Q- and R-boats, and on two separate sheets of paper, summary data by designer (Burgess Swasey & Paine being most successful) and builder (Lawley being most successful). The only Herreshoff-built boats on the list are 'Q1 SPINDRIFT [#892s ex-GRAYLING] [owned by] J.V. Santry, [designed by] N.G. Herreshoff [and built by] Herreshoff' and 'R24 GAMECOCK [#932s] [owned by] Nichols & Morgan, [designed by] N.G. Herreshoff [and built by] Herreshoff'." (Source: Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item WRDT06_01150. Typewritten List. Folder [no #]. 1926 (or 1925).)
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"[Item Description:] Handwritten (in ink and pencil) comparison table giving o.a.L, l.w.l, beam, beam at waterline, beam 1/10b above waterline, draft, depth at various positions, outside lead, freeboard at stem head and other positions, displacement to LWL, frame space (2.2*(D)^1/3)^.9 and other factors (I, II, III, IV), keel thick, stem sided, transverse thick, timbers, plankfloors, lead bolts, planking, diag. straps, clamps, deckbeams, deck, belt frames, rudder stock for the following boats #744 Class (Buzzards Bay Boys Boats 1914), #788 Class (Fish Class 1916), #679 DELIGHT (1908), #699 BIBELOT (1910), #828 Class S (1920), #874 CYGNET (6 meter 1922), #718 ALERION (1912 Centreboard), #932 GAME COCK (R class 1925), #727 Class (Newport 29s COMET 1914), #892 GRAYLING (Q Class 1923), #708 CORINTHIAN (P Class 1911), #773 Class (NYYC 40s 1916), #867 VENTURA (1921 Centreboard), #711 Class (NYYC 50s 1913), #625 DORIS (1905). Undated, 1925 or later given the mention of #932 GAMECOCK. Probably 1927 in preparation for NGH's Rules for Wooden Yachts." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Handwritten Table. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_06960. Folder [no #]. No date (1927 ??).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #892s Grayling even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Grayling (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Grayling (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: Grayling
Type: Knockabout
Length: 30'
Owner: Morgan, J. Pierpont

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

• Grayling
• Mary ex-Grayling
• Spindrift ex-Grayling
• 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: Grayling
Type: 30' sloop
Owner: J. P. Morgan
Year: 1923
Row No.: 256

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: Feb.
Day: 03
Year: 1923
E/P/S: S
No.: 0892
Name: Grayling
OA: 45' 6"
LW: 30'
B: 8' 10"
D: 5' 10"
Rig: Knockabout
K: y
Ballast: Lead
Amount: 9250.00
Notes Constr. Record: Q. class. Leg-o-mutton Mainsail.
Last Name: Morgan
First Name: J. P.

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 Q." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 7, 2009.)

"Built in 142 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $65/day, 125 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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