HMCo #1133s Fanö [Fano]

"[1929-08-13] Tue 13: ... The 14' sample boat [Fanö] set up.
[1929-08-14] Wed 14: ... Ready to plank the sample 14 footer no 1133.
[1929-09-05] Thu 5: [Thermometer] 71 - 66 - 68 [degrees]. Fog & overcast all day, nearly calm [in] a.m., mod[erate] NE [in] p.m. The little boat #1133 was launched. ...
[1929-09-07] Sat 7: [Thermometer] 74 - 66 - 70 [degrees]. L[igh]t S to W [wind in] a.m. & overcast, clearing before noon. Thick fog [in the] late p.m. Fresh SSW [wind] in afternoon. Rigged and tried #1133, the 14' sample boat.
[1929-09-08] Sun 8: [Thermometer] 78 - 69 - 69 [degrees]. Rain last night, light airs & calm, becoming NE in late afternoon. Some sunshine in middle of day. Out a while in #1133 in forenoon with Chas. Nystrom & Louise. ...
[1929-09-15] Sun 15: [Thermometer] 71 - 64 - 69 [degrees]. A beautiful day with mod[erate] NW [wind] & clear. Off sailing twice in #1133 taking Ann, Frank Roebuck, & Agnes in afternoon.
[1929-09-22] Sun 22: [Thermometer] 62 - 44 - 53 [degrees]. Fine & cool. Fresh NE [wind]. At home all day except a short sail in 1133.
[1929-09-24] Tue 24: [Thermometer] 69 - 51 - 63 [degrees]. L[igh]t fog early, clearing in a.m. Calm [in] a.m., l[igh]t to mod[erate] SSW [wind in] p.m. Clear & fine. Took a very satisfactory sail in #1133." (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1929. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)

"The Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company is looking for information on the 15' 6" keel sloop FANO built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1930 and shipped to L. R. Clausen in Racine, Wisconsin. You can write to E. L. Goodwin at the Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company at Box 152, Wareham, MA 02571." (Source: Anon. "Reader Search." Wooden Boat #47, July/August 1982, p. 15.)

"... restricted. The original plans/offsets for [the] 14 foot design, Fano (#1133), were purchased in 1948 by Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co., of Wareham, MA." (Source: Hasselbalch, Kurt and Frances Overcash and Angela Reddin: Guide to The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1997, p. 21.)

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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections, titled 'Fall 1914. Design for 12 foot Buzzards Bay Boys Boat [#744s Class], scale 1/10 size. Use 10in scale in laying down, w.l. = 14ft 91/2in x 10/10 = 12ft 4in'. With displacement calculations comparing scale 1/12 [Fish Class] (42.5cuft = 2720lbs) and scale 1/10 [12 1/2ft Class] (24.6cuft = 1575lbs). With two displacement curves, one solid, the other dashed and annotated 'study model July 19 1928' [a reference to Model 204 made that day] suggesting that despite the 'Fall 1914' title these sections were taken off Model 716 for the 12 1/2 foot class in July 1928 in preparation for NGH's design of #1133s FANO which was built the following year. (Note, that of course it could also have been the other way round: The sections being the original ones from 1914 and the displacement curve from 1928 simply having been added to it.) On verso of 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Builders of Steam Yachts, Torpedo Boats, Launches, High Speed Marine Engines and Tubulous Boilers' stationery." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_00590. Folder [no #]. 1928-07-19 ?.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph hull sections with tracing marks on verso of sans-serif 'Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, R.I.' stationery. Titled '#1133 Class [FANÖ]. July 19, 1928. Study model for improved B B [Buzzards Bay] Boys Boat of 13ft 11 1/2in w.l, 15ft 5in o.a. with rudder outside, Scale 1/10 size. Or a pleasure sailing boat 16ft 9in, 19ft 3in o.a., transom stern, scale 1/12 size, or a small cruiser 22ft 4in w.l., 25ft 8in o.a., 9ft 0in beam, 4ft draft, scale 1/16'. With 'Note. 14ft plans given to H.M.Co. Oct[ober] 18 [1928] to build on. Lead o.s. [outside] 935[lbs], i.s. [inside] 80lbs. Sails ms [mainsail] 125sqft, job 31 1/2sqft'. With calculations to determine the four fundamental factors to calculate scantlings according to Herreshoff Rules for Wooden Yachts and to determine displacement and wetted surface at scale 1/12 (54cuft = 3450lbs and 111sqft), 1/10 (31.3cuft = 2000lbs and 77sqft), and 1/16 (130.5cuft = 8350lbs and 197sqft)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Hull Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_02930. Folder [no #]. 1928-07-19.)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled pantograph lead sections titled 'Lead for Proposed Class of 14ft and 16ft 10in w.l. Pleasure sailing Knockabout Boats. Drawn scale of 1/4 size sections and 1/8 size length for 16ft 10in w.l. size, and for 14ft w.l. at 5/8 of lengths or 25/36 areas'. With calculations. With further note 'Dotted line is for lead on design for 22ft 4in cruiser [#192805es] for [blank (Russell)] Grinnell. The model at scale of 1/16th and this crawing at scale of 3/16 size & 5/8 size. The led figures roughly at about 3450lbs and boat if built will require 500 or 600[lbs] inside'. Undated (this plan is related to Model 204 titled 'Study model July 19 1928 #1133 [FANO] Building Aug 1929 as sample 1/10 size' suggesting that this plan was made at about the same time)." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Pantograph Lead Sections. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE04_03570. Folder [no #]. No date (1928-07-28 or later).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled construction plan with inboard profile, plan view, sections and scantlings titled '#1133 [FANO] Class'. Undated, FANO's similar HMCo Plan 76-163 is dated July 15, 1929." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Penciled Construction Plan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Item MRDE02_05150. Folder [no #]. No date (1929-07 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Penciled sailplan and calculations titled '1133 [#1133s FANO] & class' and annotated '14ft #1113'. With annotations showing rigging dimensions and sail areas. Undated. FANO was modeled in July 1928 and built in August 1929." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (?) (creator). Penciled Sailplan. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0369. WRDT04, Folder 32, formerly MRDE09. No date (1929-07 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] HMCo Plan HH.5.05601 (076-163) 'Constr[uction] Plan for Contr[act] #1133 [Fano]. ... July 15, 1929'. Blueprint construction plan with plan view, sections and and inboard profile. Untitled. Marked in pencil '1929'. With list of scantlings. With numerous small changes in red pencil which are incorporated into the plan in Hart Nautical Collections, suggesting that this plan was created prior to that in Hart Nautical Collections. On verso penciled profile sketch of an unidentified design with both shallow draft and deep keel underwater configurations [possibly related to #192904es Unbuilt Shallow Draft Swedish Rule Boat?]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. (creator). Blueprint. Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Acc. 2004.0001.0129. WRDT08, Folder 11, formerly MRDE02. No date (before 1929-07-15 ?).)
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"[Item Description:] Plan lists, Offset booklets for S-class and #1133s FANÖ. (RESTRICTED ACCESS - see curator.)" (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.146. Documents. Box HAFH.6.5B, Folder Cape Cod Shipbuilding. No date.)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #1133s Fanö [Fano] even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Fano (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Fano (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.

Month: July
Day: 24
Year: 1930
E/P/S: S
No.: 1133
Name: Fano
OA: 15.5
LW: 14'
D: 2' 6"
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead
Amount: 1000.00
Notes Constr. Record: Sample boat. Shipped to Racicne, Wis. 7/29/34 (?)
Last Name: Clausen
First Name: L. 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.

"Fano's first owner, L. R. Clausen of Racine, may have been Leon R. Clausen, president of the J. I. Case company, the producer of harvesting combines and other agricultural machinery which later merged to become part of New Holland, and was based in Racine, Wisconsin." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 16, 2011.)

"As per writing on the back of its model Fano was modeled in July 1928 and built in August 1929. NGH closely followed her building in his diary and sailed her several times with friends and family in August and September 1929, referring to her as the 'sample boat'. She was apparently intended as an improvement of the 12 1/2. The Construction Record indicates that after several years of ownership by HMCo she was finally sold on July 24, 1934 to L. R. Clausen of Racine, Wis. and shipped to Racine on July 29, 1934." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 10, 2015.)

"Built in 23 days (setup to launch; equivalent to $43/day, 87 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

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"Main Sail 116 1/2sqft. Jib 31 1/2sqft. [Sum] 148sqft. [Mainsail] 1 Reef 93sqft. Jib 31 1/2sqft. [Sum] 124 1/2sqft." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Note on sailplan 130-166 (HH.5.10478) from July 1929. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

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