HMCo #388p Stroller
Particulars
Name: StrollerLater Name(s): Cy-Wood (1950s), Nord (1950s-)
Type: Power Yacht
Designed by: ASdeWH
Order to build: 1928-12 ?
Delivered: 1929-5-29 ?
Construction: Wood
LOA: 46' 9" (14.25m)
LWL: 46' (14.02m)
Beam: 10' 5" (3.18m)
Draft: 2' 9" (0.84m)
Displ.: 21,228 lbs (9,629 kg)
Propulsion: Gasoline, Sterling Petrel, 2 engines; Petrel; 2 [2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6]
Built for: Rafferty, Charles D.
Amount: $24,500.00
Note(s) in HMCo Construction Record: [For delivery] May 1/29
Last reported: 2014 (aged 85)
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: N/A (Missing, nonexistant or unidentified model)
Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by ASdeWH
Note: This model is missing, is nonexistant or has not been identified. The number of vessels built from it is only an estimate based on similar features, such as dimensions, rig, machinery, etc.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.060
Offset booklet contents:
#388p [power cruiser Stroller] [also references #393p Ariel]
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Drawings
Explore all drawings relating to this boat.List of drawings:
Drawings believed to have been first drawn for, or being first referenced to
HMCo #388p Stroller 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 025-176 (HH.5.01934): Casting List # 388 (1929-01-23)
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Dwg 119-073 (HH.5.09794); General Arrangement > Commuting Boat for C.D. Rafferty, Esq. (1929-01-30)
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Dwg 025-179 (HH.5.01937): Bolt List (1929-02-06)
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Dwg 062-106 (HH.5.04471): Rudder and Connections for 388 (1929-02-13)
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Dwg 058-081 (HH.5.04152): Propeller Shaft Details for Contr. # 388 (1929-02-22)
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Dwg 134-119 (HH.5.10959): Muffler for 3 1/2" Exhaust (1929-04-20)
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Dwg 082-083 (HH.5.06355): Details for Awning (1929-05 ?)
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Dwg 132-000 (HH.5.10794): General Arrangement > Arrangement Plan for 47'-0" W.L. Motor Cruiser, 2'-6" Draft, 10'-6" Beam (1930-08 ?)
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
Other Contemporary Text Source(s)
"... The class M sloop [#1131s Istalena] for George M Pynchon has been set up and is partially framed and the company has started work on a 50-foot continuous sheer type cruiser [#388p Stroller] to be powered with a pair of Sterling Petrel engines and a 43-foot Hand designed boat [#389p Little Gull II] which will have Hall Scott engines. The names of the owners have not been made public, ..." (Source: Anon. "At Herreshoff Shops." Bristol Phoenix, January 15, 1928, p. 3.)
"Herreshoff's sheds are so full of boats that they would be hard put to find room to set up one of the 12 1/2-foot knockabouts. The 150-foot steel cruising craft [#385p Vara] for Ex-Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt on the north railway fills the shop from end to end, but there is a practically completed 'S' knockabout under her port quarter, and another 'S' ready for decking under the flare of her port bow, while under the starboard bow a 43-foot powerboat is in frame, and further aft, flanking the Vanderbilt boat's midship section, is still a third 'S,' decked and ready to put the house on. The Hand designed V-bottomed cruiser is timbered out and partly planked in the small boat shop at the west end of the building. While on the south railway George M. Pynchon's 'M' sloop [#1131s Istalena], from the designs of L. Francis Herreshoff, is completely planked and has some of her carlines in. Astern of the Pynchon boat, the railway is occupied by the cruising houseboat Roamer [#215p] with a crew of men busy making changes in her deck houses. [Note: The reference to the 43-foot powerboat is unclear. The only 43-foot powerboat under construction during this time period was the William Hand-designed #389p Little Gull II which is referenced in the next sentence. Another powerboat built at the same time was #388p Stroller but she was slightly larger at 46ft 9in LOA. It is possible that the writer mixed up the two boats.]" (Source: Anon. "Yachts and Yachtsmen." Boston Globe, February 24, 1929, p. B13.)
"... Practically all the stock 'S' knockabouts, 10 to a dozen, three of which are to be added to the Marblehead class this season, are completed. While the 45-foot powerboat [#388p Stroller] for A. F. Rafferty of New York from the firm's design with a Sterling engine, and the Hand designed 43-foot power cruiser [#389p Little Gull II] for Irving Bonbright of New York, powered by a Hall-Scot engine, are nearly completed. ..." (Source: Anon. "Yacht Yards South of Boston Busy With New Work And Fitting Out." Boston Globe, May 5, 1929, p. A63.)
Other Modern Text Source(s)
"[Short description of Stroller.]" (Source: Jones, Gregory O. and Anthony Dalton. Herreshoff Sailboats. St. Paul, Minn., 2004, p. 137.)
Maynard Bray
"With twin propellers driven by two six-cylinder Sterling gasoline engines, a forward cockpit with its own curved windshield, and the usual elegant Herreshoff detailing (note, for example, the cabin trim molding), Stroller reflects --- albeit conservatively --- the style of the Roaring Twenties. She was built for New Yorker C. D. Rafferty at a cost of $24,500 and was designed by Sidney Herreshoff." (Source: Bray, Maynard and Carlton Pinheiro. Herreshoff of Bristol. Brooklin, Maine, 1989, p. 169.)
Archival Documents
"[Item Description:] Spreadsheet listing original contracts (from 1923 to 1940) by HMCo in the collection of HMM (apparently from the gift of Everett Pearson). Listed boats are: #380p, #381p, #388p, #389p, #391p, #392p, #393p, #395p, #886s, #933s, #934s, #954s, #955s, #962s, #983s, #999s, #1002s, #1017s, #1054s, #1055s, #1057s, #1074s, #1078s, #1122s, #1125s, #1130s, #1131s, #1147s, #1152s, #1153s, #1154s, #1156s, #1157s, #1164s, #1170s, #1173s, #1174s, #1175s, #1175s, #1176s, #1177s, #1179s, #1180s, #1191s, #1192s, #1193s, #1195s, #1196s, #1198s, #1199s, #1200s, #1201s, #1202s, #1203s, #1206s, #1207s, #1208s, #1209s, #1210s, #1211s, #1212s, #1213s, #1214s, #1215s, #1216s, #1217s, #1218s, #1219s, #1220s, #1222s, #1224s, #1236s, #1226s, #1227s, #1228s, #1230s, #1232s, #1234s, #1237s, #1238s, #1240s, #1241s, #1243s, #1244s, #1245s, #1246s, #1247s, #1248s, #1249s, #1250s, #1251s, #1252s, #1253s, #1254s, #1255s, #1256s, #1257s, #1258s, #1259s, #1260s, #1261s, #1262s, #1263s, #1264s, #1265s, #1274s, #1275s, #1277s, #1279s, #1280s, #1281s, #1282s, #1283s, #1284s, #1285s, #1286s, #1287s, #1302s, #1303s, #1315s, #1508s." (Source: Rickson, Norene (creator). Table. Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection Item LIB_4220. HMM Library Rare Books Room (HMCo Contracts), Folder [no #]. No date (2010s ?).)
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Images
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Further Image Information
Created by: Brightman, Thomas P.
Image Caption: "The power cruiser Stroller underway, 1929." [The newly-built Mount Hope Bridge towers are barely visible above the forward windshield.]
Image Date: 1929
Published in: Bray, Maynard and Carlton Pinheiro. Herreshoff of Bristol. Brooklin, Maine, 1989, p. 169 (bottom).
Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.
Image is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission
Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, www.herreshoff.org.
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Further Image Information
Created by: Brightman, Thomas P.
Image Caption: [Stroller, 1929.]
Image Date: 1929
Collection: Herreshoff Marine Museum Collection.
Image is copyrighted: Yes, used with permission
Copyright holder: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, www.herreshoff.org.
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Rosenfeld and Sons. "Stroller [#388p.]" Photograph, negative no. 33746F, ca. 1929.
Further Image Information
Created by: Rosenfeld and Sons.
Image Caption: "Stroller, C. D. Rafferty's Herreshoff 46-footer."
Negative Number: 33746F
Image Date: 1929 ?
Published in: Rousmaniere, John. Sailing at Fishers. Mystic, CT, 2004, p. 49.
Collection: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection, acc. no. 1984.187.33746F.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection.
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Rosenfeld and Sons. "Stroller [#388p.]" Photograph, negative no. 40178FA, 1930.
Further Image Information
Created by: Rosenfeld and Sons.
Image Caption: "5 x 7 Kodak safety copy negative made by Rosenfeld and Sons, of a print signed by Morris Rosenfeld. Starboard beam view of the motor yacht SROLLER, seen cruising down the Thames River, in New London, CT. Vessel was spectating at the Harvard-Yale Boat Races. STROLLER was Herreshoff designed and built, Bristol, RI, 1929. She was 46 3/4 feet in length and was owned by C.D. Rafferty in 1930, with a home port in New York. Stamped on original negative sleeve: '40178FA / NEW LONDON RACES 1930'. Handwritten on sleeve: 'Stroller / Box 2836'."
Negative Number: 40178FA
Image Date: 1930
Collection: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection, acc. no. 1984.187.40178FA.
Image is copyrighted: Yes
Copyright holder: Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection.
Registers
1930 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#4134)
Name: Stroller
Owner: C. D. Rafferty; Port: New York
Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
LOA 46-8; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-4; Draught 2-8
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1935 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#4615)
Name: Stroller
Owner: C. D. Rafferty; Port: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
LOA 46-8; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-4; Draught 2-8
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1940 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#6022)
Name: Stroller
Owner: C. D. Rafferty; Port: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1947 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#1327)
Name; Former Name(s): Cy-Wood; Stroller
Owner: Jeremiah Milbank; Port: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1950 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#4754)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur Norden; Port: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], TC [Trunk Cabin], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1955 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5171)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur Norden; Port: Port Chester, N.Y.; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], RD [Raised Deck], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1960 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5676)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur Norden. Norman Norden; Port: Port Chester, N.Y.; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], RD [Raised Deck], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1967 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#6596)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur Norden. Norman Norden; Port: Port Chester, N.Y.; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], RD [Raised Deck], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1970 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#6874)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur Norden. Norman Norden; Port: Port Chester, N.Y.; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig K[eel], RD [Raised Deck], Pwr [Power], Twn [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 4 Cyc. 6 Cyl. 5 1/4 x 6; Maker Sterling
1975 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#5164)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur & Norman Norden; Port: Port Chester, N.Y.; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig Twn Sc [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Engine each 6 Cy. 300hp; Maker Sterling
1977 Lloyd's Register of American Yachts (#4561)
Name; Former Name(s): Nord; Cy-Wood, Stroller
Owner: Arthur & Norman Norden; Port: Port Chester; Port of Registry: New York
Official no. 236180; Building Material Wood; Type & Rig Twn Sc [Twin Screws]
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; LOA 46-9; LWL 46-0; Extr. Beam 10-2; Depth 5-11; Draught 2-9
Builder Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Designer Herreshoff Mfg. Co.; Built where Bristol, R.I.; Built when 1929
Engine 2 Gas Eng. 6 Cyl.; Maker Sterling
2014 USCG
Name: Nord
Official no. D236180; Building Material Wood
Tons Gross 23; Tons Net 14; Reg. Length 45.0; Extr. Beam 10.2; Depth 5.9
Built when 1929
Note: Call Sign: WG3991. Service: Recreational. Attention: These results are from the PSIX Archive Database and are for data before 12/15/2001.
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: Stroller
Type: Gasoline
Length: 48'
Owner: Rafferty, C. D.
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: Stroller
Type: 46' 9" power
Owner: C. D. Rafferty
Year: 1929
Row No.: 660
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
Year: 1929
E/P/S: P
No.: 388
Name: Stroller
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)
"The offset booklet for #388p Stroller also references #393p Ariel, which suggests that both vessels were built from the same model." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 10, 2014.)
"Displacement (9.477 long tons) from offset booklet HH.4.60." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. October 10, 2014.)
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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