Herreshoff #187806es [Sailboat for #40p Leila]
Particulars
Type: Sailing Gig [?]
Designed by: NGH
Launch: 1878
Construction: Wood
LOA: 16' (4.88m)
Rig: Sail
Built for: Graham, William H.
See also: 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: 416
Vessels from this model:
2 built, modeled by NGH
Original text on model:
"TOBY 1878 for OWL and GAMECOCK Races NGH as a sailing and gig for a unknown word rowboat in about 1881
one yawl for steamer #40 12 ft. long LEILA" (Source: Original handwritten annotation on model. Undated.)
Model Description:
"12' loa Toby, rowing and sailing gig of 1878; used for the Owl and Gamecock race, a rowing regatta held annually during the New York Yacht Club's Annual Cruise for club crews in gigs and cutters. This model was also used to build a tender for the steam yacht Leila." (Source: Bray, Maynard. 2004.)
Model Comment:
"Given the different dimensions, it is questionable if the '16ft sail boat for Leila' mentioned in offset booklet HH.4.00.2 on p. 25 and the 'yawl for steamer #40 12 ft. long Leila' mentioned on the back of Model 416 are one and the same. But note that both are sail boats." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. March 11, 2021.)
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.
Offsets
Offset booklet number(s): HH.4.002.2
Offset booklet contents:
#40, #45 [30' steam launch], rowboat for 40, sailboat for 40, double-ended launch yawl boat.
Offset Booklet(s) in Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection. Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (Restricted access --- see curator.)
Documents
Nathanael G. Herreshoff
"16ft sail boat. Measurements to inside of planking in feet, inches and 1 1/8ths." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Penciled notes accompanying offsets in offset booklet HH.4.002.2, p. 25. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
"[Summary of boats for] No. 40 [#40p Leila]. 16ft sail boat [#187806es], 2 row boats [#187808es, #187809es] & double ended steamer [#45p ??]." (Source: Herreshoff, N.G. Penciled notes accompanying offsets in offset booklet HH.4.002.2, p. 26. Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)
Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné.
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