HMCo #1155s Wild Goose
Particulars
Later Name(s): Rapture [Rapturer] (1933-1950s), Seven Winds (1969s), Mirage (1960s), Wind (1970s)
Type: Fishers Island Aux. Sloop (Mod)
Designed by: ASdeWH and NGH
Contract: 1930-2-4
Launch: 1930-5-1 ?
Construction: Wood
LOA: 44' (13.41m)
LWL: 31' (9.45m)
Beam: 10' 7" (3.23m)
Draft: 6' 1" (1.85m)
Rig: Sloop
Keel: yes
Ballast: Lead
Built for: Rockwell, Charles B.
Amount: $16,000.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: Fis. Island 31 footer. May 15, 1930.
Last reported: 1980 (aged 50)
Note: Particulars are primarily but not exclusively from the HMCo Construction Record. Supplementary information not from the Construction Record appears elsewhere in this record with a complete citation.
Model
Model location: M.I.T. Hart Nautical Collections
Vessels from this model:
14 built, modeled by ASdeWH and NGH
Model Description:
"Model in M.I.T. Hart Nautical Collection: Fisher's Island 31 foot-class, #1054, Painted model; Size: 11"x45"; Acc. No.: XA2-1(5)." (Source: Source: van der Linde, Claas. 2007.)
Related model(s):
Model 0714 by NGH (1912); sail, 6 built from
Drawings
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #1155s Wild Goose are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
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Dwg 064-062 (HH.5.04538): Rudder Stock and Fittings (1903-05-04)
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Dwg 110-026 (HH.5.08991); Travel[l]ers for Small Sail Boats (1903-12-09)
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Dwg 065-054 (HH.5.04650): Tiller Socket (1907-02-22)
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Dwg 008-047 (HH.5.00745): Propeller Shaft # 264 (1908-02-10)
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Dwg 109-004 (N/A); Runnerslides for # 699 (1910-09-19 ?)
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Dwg 084-093 (HH.5.06544): Skylight (1919-03-25)
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Dwg 084-093 (HH.5.06544.1): Skylight (1919-03-25)
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Dwg 006-108 (HH.5.00610): Folding Propellers 18" Diam., 18" x 12" Pitch (1924-05-05)
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Dwg 009-056 (N/A): 1" Coupling with Locking Device for Folding Propeller (1924-05-31 ?)
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Dwg 076-160 (N/A); 31'-6" W.L. Knockabout (1926-12-31 ?)
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Dwg 025-165 A (N/A): Bolt List (ca. 1927)
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Dwg 080-093 (N/A): Spars for # 1054 (1927-01-04 ?)
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Dwg 130-154 (HH.5.10466): Sails > Sail Plan for No. 1054 (1927-01-11)
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Dwg 070-085 (HH.5.05084): Boat # 1054 Stem Head Details (1927-01-20)
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Dwg 011-072 (HH.5.00999): Boat No. 1054 Stuffing Box Details (1927-02-12)
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Dwg 058-080 (HH.5.04151): Shaft Strut for 1 5/16" Sleeve (1927-02-12)
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Dwg 025-165 (N/A): Casting, Rigging & Block List (1927-02-19 ?)
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Dwg 134-113 (HH.5.10954): Clutch & Throttle Control (1927-03-18)
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Dwg 076-160 C (HH.5.05600); General Arrangement > Cabin Arrangement for Fisher's Island Sound 32 Footer (1927-09-24)
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Dwg 076-160 A (HH.5.05598); General Arrangement > Cabin Arrangement for Fisher's Island Sound 32 Footer (1929-09-27)
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Dwg 128-119 (HH.5.10247); Sails > Sails for Fishers Island 31' (1929-12-16)
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Dwg 076-160 A (N/A): 31'-6" W.L. Knockabout for C. B. Rockwell Esq. (1930-01-17 ?)
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Dwg 076-160 B (HH.5.05599); General Arrangement > Fisher's Island Sound 32' Class for Charles B. Rockwell, Esq. - Cabin Arrangement (ca. 1930-01-17)
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Dwg 130-170 (HH.5.10482): Sails > Sail Plan for 31 Footer for C.B. Rockwell (1930-01-17)
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Dwg 068-133 (HH.5.04943): Steering Quadrant and Pinion Support for 1155 (1930-02-22)
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Dwg 084-125 (HH.5.06579): Cockpit of # 1155 (1930-03-26)
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Dwg 148-000 (HH.5.12224): Sails > # 1006 Light Sails for "Wild Goose" (ca. 1931-07)
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Dwg 077-092 (HH.5.05690): Backstay Slide and Track (1932-03-17)
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Dwg 080-126 (HH.5.06041): Strengthened Mast for "Wild Goose" (1932-03-18)
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Dwg 167-000 (HH.5.13198): Displacement Curve for Herreshoff Fisher's Island 31 Ftr. (1933-06-02)
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Dwg 130-000 (HH.5.10542): Sails > [Sail Plan Fishers Island 31] (ca. 1934-10)
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Dwg 143-083 (HH.5.11948): Docking Plan Fisher's Island 31 Footers (1936-02-03)
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Dwg 143-083 (HH.5.11948.1): Docking Plan Fisher's Island 31 Footers (1936-02-03)
Note: The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection is copyrighted by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. Permission to incorporate information from it in the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné is gratefully acknowledged. The use of this information is permitted solely for research purposes. No part of it is to be published in any form whatsoever.
Documents
L. Francis Herreshoff
"During these years the class that is usually spoken of as the Fishers Island thirty-one-footers was slowly developing, but as there were not many of them built at once and because there was some variation in them, I do not speak of them as a one-design class. The first of them were straight sailboats with a gaff rig but the later ones were usually auxiliary with leg-o'-mutton rig.
While these yachts were not first designed for racing they have often done well in some of the ocean races and are well-built little ships that have been particularly liked by their owners; and some were built up to about 1935." (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. 306.)
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"... In the old Burnside shop the Woodward [sic, i.e. Woodard] 47-foot cruiser [#393p Ariel II] is getting the finishing touches, another of the Fishers Island 31 footers is planked [#1155s Wild Goose, #1154s Qutee or #1153s Savage] and ready to be turned over and set on her keel, and a flock of the little 12 1/2 footers in various stages of completion fill the gallery. ... [#1134s Dolphin, #1135s Windigo, #1136s Breeze, #1137s Bandit, #1138s Quickstep, #1139s Hatasu, #1140s Papillon, #1141s Dawtok, #1143s Gray Gull, #1144s Phantom and #1145s Wee Wunder may have been among the 'flock of 12 1/2 footers'.]" (Source: Anon. "Yachting Writers Visit Herreshoff's Shops." Bristol Phoenix, March 24, 1930, p. 1.)
"... Carl Rockwell's 31 footer Wild Goose [#1155s] now at Herreshoff's will be launched about May 1 as will also another 31 footer [#1060s Mameena???] owned by [?] M[?] Dupont. ..." (Source: Anon. "Aluminum Furniture For Yacht Weetamoe." Bristol Phoenix, April 21, 1930, p. 3.)
Other Modern Text Source(s)
"1930. ... Building interest centered around the Herreshoff plant. With the two aspirants for the America's Cup defense set up side by side in the main shop where so many defenders had been built, there were many attempts at gate crashing to get a look at them, but the plant was closed to visitors, except a few newspaper men, who confined their stories to statements of how the work was progressing without going too much into descriptive detail. Besides Enterprise [#1146s] and Weetamoe [#1147s], Herreshoff was building a 93-foot steel diesel-powered yacht, another Katoura [#391p], for Robert E. Tod, who sold the yawl Thistle [#1078s] built the year before, three of the Fisher's Island 31-foot class sloops [probably #1153s Savage, #1154s Qu Tee and #1155s Wild Goose], one of them for Charles B. Rockwell, the Wild Goose, and some smaller craft. ..." (Source: Davis, Jeff. Yachting in Narragansett Bay. Providence, 1946, p. 48.)
"1933. ... C. B. Rockwell sold the Fisher's Island 31-foot waterline class sloop Wild Goose to A. D. Fay for use at Nahant. ..." (Source: Davis, Jeff. Yachting in Narragansett Bay. Providence, 1946, p. 61.)
"The Fishers Island Sound 31
The first keelboat class at Fishers was the graceful Herreshoff-designed and -built Fishers Island Sound 31, or FIS-31. The number refers to waterline length, considered the best indicator of a boat's speed. The class originated with a sailor at Watch Hill Yacht Club, W. Barklie Henry, which explains its name referring to local waters. In the Herreshoff yard's promotional materials, however, 'Sound' was deleted and the boats were called the 'Fishers Island One Design.' Obviously Fishers Island had a certain cachet among yachtsmen, or at least among yacht salesmen, for its name also was applied to two other boats, the Bullseye (called the 'Fishers Island Bullseye') and the Herreshoff 23 (the 'Fishers Island 23').
The FIS-31 is A. Sidney DeWolf Herreshoff's slightly larger version of one of his father's most successful pre-World War I boats, the Newport 29, one of which, the long-successful Dolphin [#727s], still sails in the Sound. Priced at $13,000 (the equivalent of about $130,000 today), the 31 was complete with everything needed to cruise, including china. By modern standards, accommodations are extremely skimpy, with only two cabins and a total of three bunks. This was a typical layout in a cruising boat of that era. The two bunks aft are for the owner's party, with their own enclosed head. Up in the bow was a tiny cabin, called the forepeak, with a single bunk and small toilet. That was the residence of the professional sailor in khaki uniform. He (it was always a he) scrubbed the decks, polished the brass, kept up the brightwork, washed the salt off all surfaces, and cooked the meals in a dark, narrow forward galley." (Source: Rousmaniere, John. Sailing at Fishers. Mystic, CT, 2004, p. 56.)
Maynard Bray
"... "... I know that WILD GOOSE is being restored in Essex, Connecticut, because I saw her a few weeks ago. ... Although the Fishers Island Yacht Club was involved with the Fishers Island 31-footers by virtue of a few of its members owning them, that class does not appear to have been Club-sponsored. One should think of the letters 'FIS' on the sails of these boats as standing for Fishers Island Sound, the body of water in which the boats usually sailed. W. Barklie Henry, of the nearby Watch Hill Yacht Club, originated the idea for such a boat and ordered the first one, Cyrilla IV [#1054s], late in 1926. Three of his friends, thinking that his idea was sound, also ordered boats for 1927 delivery. Except for two others which were built in 1929 and sold elsewhere, the four original boats had things pretty much to themselves for the first three seasons. Then, in 1930, five more boats, some owned in Fishers Island and some in Watch Hill, joined the racing. Cirrus, then Kelpie [#1157s], was the last boat of this second batch and wasn't delivered until late August. ...
The Fishers Island 31-footers, although based on the Newport 29footers and presumed to have been basically laid down from their offsets, (a blow-up, incidentally, of those for Alerion, had some rather significant changes made from the original model. It is likely that the new profile (longer ends, deeper keel, more raking sternpost, straighter sheer) und deck line to match were established by means of a scale drawing. However, the fairing of the lines to these new end points, according to Sidney Herreshoff, was done right on the mold loft floor - full size. Sidney was a most modest man, reluctant to take complete credit for much of what he did, but he did admit (on a taped interview) that his father was in Florida for the winter while this work was going on and that he, Sidney, was in charge of executing the needed changes. I'd say he did well!" (Source: Bray, Maynard. "A Look at the Class." Woodenboat #34, May/June 1980, p. 33-34.)
Further Reading
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Anon. "The Fisher's Island Sound One-Design Class." Yachting, April 1928, p. 96. (686 kB)
Document is copyrighted: Yes. Fishers Island 31 class description. -
Anon. "Herreshoff Fisher's Island 31-Footers." Rudder, September 1931, p. 57. (800 kB)
Document is copyrighted: Yes. Fishers Island 31 class description. -
Bray, Maynard. "A Look at the Class." Wooden Boat #34, May/June 1980, p. 42-48. (409 kB)
Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text).
Images
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Church, Albert Cook. "Wild Goose [#1155s.]" Photograph, 1932.
Further Image Information
Created by: Church, Albert Cook.
Image Caption: "Wild Goose. Fishers Island 31 in Whalers Race 1932. A. C. Church Photo." [Handwritten caption on verso of print in the collection of WoodenBoat library, Brooklin, ME. Photo of a photo.]
Image Date: 1932
Collection: WoodenBoat Library, Brooklin, Maine.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
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Rosenfeld and Sons. "Wild Goose [#1155s.]" Photograph, negative no. 41481F, 1930.
Further Image Information
Created by: Rosenfeld and Sons.
Image Caption: "WILD GOOSE, #11, Bayside to Block Island Race, 1930. 7x5 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the Bayside to Block Island Race in 1930. Image of WILD GOOSE, undersail, port beam view. WILD GOOSE was a 43' auxiliary sloop, sail #11, built in 1930 and was designed and built by Herreshoff Mfg. of Bristol, Rhode Island. She was owned by Charles B. Rockwell, Jr.. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: '41481F / BOX 2914'. Handwritten: 'Bayside BI Race / Wild Goose'." [The 1930 Bayside to Block Island Race was held on August 1, 1930.]
Negative Number: 41481F
Image Date: 1930-8-1
Published in: http://library.mysticseaport.org/ere/odetail.cfm?id_number=1984.187.41481F, retrieved October 19, 2009.
Collection: Mystic Seaport Museum, acc. no. 1984.187.41481F.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection.
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Rosenfeld and Sons. "Wild Goose [#1155s.]" Photograph, negative no. 64814F, 1933.
Further Image Information
Created by: Rosenfeld and Sons.
Image Caption: "WILD GOOSE, #FIS, Larchmont Race Week, 1933. USA, NY, Larchmont. 7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of Larchmont Race Week July 18, 1933. Image of WILD GOOSE with the designation of FIS, undersail, starboard beam/bow view with deck and crew visible. WILD GOOSE was a 43' auxiliary sloop built in 1930 and was designed and built by Herreshoff Mfg. of Bristol, Rhode Island. She was owned by Charles B. Rockwell, Jr.. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: '64814F / JUL 18 1933 / LARCHMONT RACE WEEK / [Box] 3807'. Handwritten: 'FIS / Wild Goose'."
Negative Number: 64814F
Image Date: 1933-7-18
Published in: http://library.mysticseaport.org/ere/odetail.cfm?id_number=1984.187.64814F, retrieved October 19, 2009.
Collection: Mystic Seaport Museum, acc. no. 1984.187.64814F.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection.
Registers
1935 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#3918)
Name; Former Name(s): Rapture; Wild Goose
Owner: A. D. Fay; Port: Nahant, Mass.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-7; Extr. Beam 10-7; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker R&L [Ratsey&Lapthorn New York]; Sails made in [19]33; Sail Area 828
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 2 3/4 x 4; Maker Red Wing
1940 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5069)
Name; Former Name(s): Rapture; Wild Goose
Owner: A. D. Fay; Port: Nahant, Mass.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker Ratsey; Sails made in [19]37; Sail Area 828
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 2 3/4 x 4; Maker Red Wing
1947 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#4885)
Name; Former Name(s): Rapture; Wild Goose
Owner: A. D. Fay; Port: Nahant, Mass.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker Ratsey; Sails made in [19]37; Sail Area 828
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 2 3/4 x 4; Maker Red Wing
1950 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5363)
Name; Former Name(s): Rapture; Wild Goose
Owner: A. D. Fay; Port: Nahant, Mass.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker Ratsey; Sails made in [19]48; Sail Area 828
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 2 3/4 x 4; Maker Red Wing
1955 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5833)
Name; Former Name(s): Rapture; Wild Goose
Owner: Jack Coffey; Port: Stamford, Conn.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker HR&R; Sails made in [19]54; Sail Area 902
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 3 x 3 1/2. 1954; Maker Universal
1960 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#7264)
Name; Former Name(s): Seven Winds; Rapture, Wild Goose
Owner: Oscar J. Swenson; Port: Port Washington, N.Y.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker HR&R; Sails made in [19]58; Sail Area 902
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 3 x 3 1/2. 1954. 45 HP; Maker Universal
1967 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#6067)
Name; Former Name(s): Mirage; Seven Winds, Rapture, Wild Goose
Owner: Oscar J. Swenson; Port: Stony Creek, Conn.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 43-0; LWL 31-8; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 6-0
Sailmaker HR&R; Sails made in [19]58; Sail Area 700
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1930
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 3 x 3 1/2. 1954; Maker Universal
1970 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#11014)
Name; Former Name(s): Wind; Mirage, Seven Winds, Rapture, Wild Goose
Owner: James Callery; Port: New York, N.Y.
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Aux Slp
LOA 44-0; LWL 31-0; Extr. Beam 10-8; Draught 4-0
Sailmaker Larsen; Sail Area 850
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer N. G. Herreshoff; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1932
Engine Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 4 Cyl. 3 x 3 1/2. 1967. 46 HP; Maker Universal
Note: Sail no. 560
Not listed in 1975 Lloyd's Register
Source: Various Yacht Lists and Registers. For complete biographical information see the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné under Data Sources. Note that this section shows only snapshots in time and should not be considered a provenance, although it can help creating one.
Supplement
From the 1920 and earlier HMCo Index Cards at the MIT Museum
- Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.
From the 1931 HMCo-published Owner's List
Name: Wild Goose
Type: J & M
Length: 31'
Owner: Rockwell, C. B.
Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. "A Partial List of Herreshoff Clients." In: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Herreshoff Yachts. Bristol, Rhode Island, ca. 1931.
From the 1930s L. Francis Herreshoff Index Cards at the Herreshoff Marine Museum
- Note: The L. Francis Herreshoff index cards comprise a set of some 1200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and / or ownership information. Apparently compiled in the early 1930s, for later HMCo-built boats like the Fishers Island 23s or the Northeast Harbor 30s are not included. Added to in later decades, apparently by L. F. Herreshoff as well as his long-time secretary Muriel Vaughn and others. Also 46 cards of L. F. Herreshoff-designed vessels. The original set of index cards is held by the Herreshoff Marine Museum and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.
From the 1953 HMCo Owner's List by L. Francis Herreshoff
Name: Wild Goose
Type: 31' 8" aux. sloop
Owner: Charles B. Rockwell
Year: 1930
Row No.: 760
Source: Herreshoff, L. Francis. "Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats." In: Herreshoff, L. Francis. Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol. New York, 1953, p. 325-343.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Month: Feb.
Day: 04
Year: 1930
E/P/S: S
No.: 1155
Name: Wild Goose
OA: 44
LW: 31'
B: 10' 7
D: 6' 1
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead
Amount: 16,000.00
Notes Constr. Record: Fis. Island 31 footer. May 15, 1930.
Notes Bray: Renamed "Rapture." A.D. Fray.
Last Name: Rockwell
First Name: C. B.
Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.
Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.
Research Note(s)
"Wild Goose was believed to be 1.5 foot longer than regular FIS-31s according to a note by Rockwell's grandson Stephen Millett on the Wooden Boat Forum on May 3, 2008 but this can not be confirmed from an inspection of her arrangement plan. She was, however, different from other FIS-31s, having a modified cockpit, a wheel instead of a tiller and other interior changes such as two pipe berths forward instead of just one." (Source: Claas van der Linde, May 3, 2008.)
"Though not indicated as such in the Construction Record, #1153s Savage, #1154s Qutee, #1155s Wild Goose, #1156s Surprise, and #1157s Kelpie were apparently build as one group of boats together, starting in September 1929 and thus making them the #1153 class. The contract dates of the latter three boats suggest that they were built on speculation and sold only after they had been built. Management at HMCo seems to have been sufficiently confident that even more buyers for FI31s could be found, because on May 20, 1930, at a time when the last boat of this #1153 class must still have been building, it issued an order to build two additonal boats forming the #1165 class (#1165s Skidoo and #1166s Last Straw)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 15, 2015.)
"Built in 86 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $186/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.
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