HMCo #1168s Mary Bud

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 18, 1930: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1931: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1932: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of August 1933: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud, [#1168s]; 15' Pheasant [#704s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1930-1933.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"Following is a List of Members of the Association, With Their Boats, as of May 30, 1937: ... Alexander Winsor, Cataumet, Mass., 12', Mary Bud (H-120) [this boat rented by E. W. Bisbee in July 1937 and by F. W. Pratt in August 1937], [#1168s]. ..." (Source: Williams, Holden P. Records of the Buzzards Yacht Club. Pocasset, Mass., no date. www.buzzardsyc.org/BYCarchive1934-1938.pdf, retrieved January 11, 2014.)

"[Image caption:] Herreshoff 12 1/2s racing off the Knob in the late ‘50s. Shrimp [#749s], BB 17, was bought by the Spaldings in 1915. She is now sailed in Marion by a Spalding grandson. Cormorant [#1168s], 55, was built in 1930, raced by the Bergmanns and now owned by Weatherly Dorris. BB 9, Triton [#?s, still extant in 2014 as Gringolet], built in 1930, was owned by the Quissett Harbor boatyard from 1954–56. She was almost destroyed by Hurricane Carol in 1954, rebuilt by a crew including Bill Cooper and owned and raced by the Rivinus family until 1968. She is now in Bucks Harbor, ME. The boat behind Shrimp appears to be BB 22, Tsuru [#1463s], built in 1939 for the W. Carey Crane family." (Source: Quissett Yacht Club (publ.). Glorious Good Times. The First Hundred Years of the Quissett Yacht Club. Quissett, 2012, p. 27.)

"... Weatherly Dorris, named for a twelve meter when her father, Bruce Barnard, was part of the ownership syndicate, is an example of someone being named after a boat instead of the more usual other way around. Weatherly grew up at the Quissett boatyard sailing 12 1/2s. Her father acquired PANI BABA [#1277s] in the 60s for his children. Weatherly and daughters Charlotte and Lilly still competitively race the boat. PANI BABA won best boat in the Quissett Yacht Club in 2013, beating out all the Doughdishes and wooden Herreshoff 12 1/2s for the honor. Weatherly, who currently owns Quissett Harbor Boatyard, also owns another 12 1/2, CORMORANT [#1168s]. ..." (Source: Cooper, Douglas E. and Carol R. Suitor. "One Hundred Years of the Herreshoff 12 1/2 at Quissett." In: Herreshoff Marine Museum (publ.). Proceedings. The 6th Classic Yacht Symposium. May 2- 3, 2014. Bristol, RI, 2014, p. 11.)

• Bray, Maynard. "Restoration of 12 1/2 Footers. Part I." Wooden Boat #56, January/February 1984, p. 93-101. (1,293 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text). Detailed Buzzards Bay 12 1/2 restoration step by step as performed by the Ballentine shop. Part I. Stem restoration, transom and frame replacement.
• Bray, Maynard. "Restoration of 12 1/2 Footers. Part II." Wooden Boat #57, March/April 1984, p. 93-100. (1,036 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text). Detailed Buzzards Bay 12 1/2 restoration step by step as performed by the Ballentine shop. Part II. Keel timber and coamings replacement.
• Bray, Maynard (with photos by Benjamin Mendlowitz). "12 1/2 Footers." Nautical Quarterly, no. 37, Spring 1987, p. 47. (608 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission. Copyright holder: Maynard Bray (text), Benjamin Mendlowitz (photos). Short class portrait. Part of the larger article "Herreshoff Legacies."
• Nagy, Steve. "The Herreshoff 12 1/2 Footer. Evolution Of The Class." In: Herreshoff Marine Museum (publ.). Proceedings. The 6th Classic Yacht Symposium. May 2-3, 2014. Bristol, RI, 2014, p. 1-23. (4,425 kB)
  Document is copyrighted: Yes. Copyright holder: Steve Nagy / Herreshoff Marine Museum. Short class history of the 12 1/2 as built by HMCo, Quincy Adams, Cape Cod Shipbuilding and others. Different models: Gaff, marconi, wishboom, Fishers Island. Detailed description of changes in configuration and equipment as boats were built over time. Identification guide for 12 1/2s missing their builder's plate. Photos. Original promotional material.

Name: Mary Bud
Type: J & M
Length: 12'6"
Owner: Winsor, Alex

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

Name: Mary Bud
Type: "S" boat [sic, i.e. Buzzards Bay 12 1/2]
Owner: Alex Winsor
Row No.: 868

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: June
Day: 04
Year: 1930
E/P/S: S
No.: 1168
Name: Mary Bud
OA: 15'
LW: 12.5
D: 2 1/2
Rig: J & M
K: y
Ballast: Lead
Amount: 1100.00
Notes Constr. Record: BB 121/2. Paid 7/14/30. Direct order. Taken by Barden truck 7/14/30. June 30/30.
Last Name: Winsor
First Name: Alex.

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.

Hull No.: 1168
Contract Date: 1930-06-04
Org. Name: Mary Bud
Org. Owner: Alex Winsor
Org. Rig: J&M
Prior Owners: Bergmann - - - Polly S; Stetson - - -
Current Name: Cormorant
Current Owner: Weatherly Barnard Dorris
Sheer-strake: Oak
Note: This boat was wrecked in the 1944 hurricane. It was rebuilt by Eldred of Quisset.

Source: Nagy, Steve. "The Herreshoff 12 1/2 Footer Registry." Version 2.0. August 2007. (http://h12.orrsford.com/H12_Registry_Ver_2-0.pdf, last visit May 23, 2008.)

"From the late 1920s until the close of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company Frederick B. Barden was by far its most important customer for 12 1/2 footers. His first order came in 1926, a year before Barden's Boatyard on Sippican Harbor in the town of Marion, Mass., was officially established. From then until 1943 he would order or broker a total of more than seventy-five 12 1/2 footers (plus #1225s Crusader in 1938 and one Marlin Cruiser in 1939), usually delivering them by truck from Bristol. During the same time span the HMCo built 280 12 1/2 footers. Barden thus took up more than a quarter of the company's production of 12 1/2 footers during these years. Barden is believed to have operated a rental fleet of boats for some time, but most of the boats he ordered were for brokerage and many are believed to have been sold to members of the nearby Beverly Yacht Club and the Buzzards Yacht Club. Barden's Boat Yard was still in existence in 2015, but apparently had no information available about these early boats." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 10, 2015.)

"Sail area approximately 140 square feet by rule." (Source: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company. Yachts by Herreshoff. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company: Designers and Builders of Sailing and Power Craft since 1861. Bristol, Rhode Island, 1937.)

"Displacement to waterline 24.6 cuft. = 1575 lbs." (Source: Herreshoff, N. G. [Design notes.] October 27, 1914.)

"Displacement 24.6 cu.ft. [= 1575 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.)

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