HMCo #522s Memo
Particulars
Type: Coquina Sailing Dinghy
Designed by: NGH
Contract: 1899-4-14
Construction: Wood
LOA: 12' 6" (3.81m)
Beam: 4' 7" (1.40m)
Draft: 0' 8" (0.20m)
Rig: Cat Gaff
Sail Area: 100sq ft (9.3sq m)
Centerboard: yes
Ballast: None
Built for: Scudder
Amount: $100.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: as #419 7/8-scale
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 number: 4
Vessels from this model:
30 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"COQUINA 1889 #404 1888
COQUINA 2nd 1892 #419
1896 #474 19 [sic, i.e. 16] 1\2 ft
827 lbs
Hull 279 centerboard rudder 10 oars 8
3 333 / 30 / 13 / 120 \ ballast & rig 140 310 \ 686." (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"#404 Coquina, 16'8" loa sailboat of 1889. Also used for #419 Coquina II of 1892 and, with modifications, for #474 Dude of 1896. See also first model for Coquina, seq 1225, not used." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Model Comment:
"Reference to Model 4 was added by CvdL because she was built as #419 Coquina 7/8-scale." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. 2008.)
Related model(s):
Model 1225 by NGH (1889?); sail, not built
Note: Vessels that appear in the records as not built, a cancelled contract, a study model, or as a model sailboat are listed but not counted in the list of vessels built from a model.
Drawings
List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #522s Memo are listed in bold.
Click on Dwg number for preview, on HH number to see at M.I.T. Museum.
- Dwg 130-054 (HH.5.10357): Sails > # 492 Violet (1898-01-28 ?)
- Dwg 127-082 (HH.5.09950): Sails > For Sailing and Row Boats [Sail Plan] (1899-04 ?)
- Dwg 080-067 1/2 (HH.5.05980): Sail and Rowboat Spars # 510, 522, 523 (1899-05-09)
- Dwg 065-042 (HH.5.04638): Traveler and Tiller for 12'-6" Combination Row and Sailboat (1900-05-16)
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
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"[1899-06-21] Wed 21: Very fine & clear. Strong NW [wind]. Launched 3 of the (?) footers, at the cove. [Is this a reference to #522s, #523s, and #524s, three scaled-down Coquina row- and sail-boats?]" (Source: Herreshoff, Nathanael G. Diary, 1899. Manuscript (excerpts). Diary access courtesy of Halsey C. Herreshoff.)
Archival Documents
Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #522s Memo even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.
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. and permission to display is gratefully acknowledged.
From the 2000 (ca.) Transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Vermilya/Bray
Month: Apr
Day: 14
Year: 1899
E/P/S: S
No.: 0522
LW: 12'
B: 4' 6"
D: 8"
Rig: Cat
CB: y
Ballast: None
Amount: 100.00
Notes Constr. Record: as 419 - 7/8 scale
Last Name: Scudder
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.
Link to the Herreshoff Registry
The Herreshoff Registry, founded by Steve Nagy and later administered by Teeter Bibber, can be particularly useful for researching the provenance of Herreshoff-built sailing vessels. Permission to link to the Registry is gratefully acknowledged! Note: The Herreshoff Registry was offline in Spring of 2022. As a temporary measure here is a link to a backup file from January 2021. It is unclear how much the Registry has been updated since then.
Research Note(s)
"Sail area 100 from note in Design Book No 2, p. 82." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. November 3, 2021.)
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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