Info and a few mysteries...

[Adam]

I picked up a book called "Who's Who in Yachting" (1966, Yachting Club of America). There are a number of Herreshoff Boats - some additional info for the registry....

1. Some fill in info - Schooner Haswell (#743) - was known as Diablo and owned at the time by - Frank S. Wade of long beach CA - She's listed as "not found" in the registry so maybe this is a place to start research.

2. There is an S class named Gander II: - owned by Dr. Judd Bockner of Mamaroneck NY due to her build date listed I believe she could only be # 1151 Pluckermin II or #1129 Suprise. The answer may lie in her Sail #, which in the book is listed as S-50

3. The FI 23 Contest (#1505) is listed as "not found", but in the book she is named Glading III With a sail # H-23-2 ; owned by Dr, Alan G Harquail jr. Annapolis, MD - Again maybe a place to start research.

4. Ibis NY30 - is listed as owned by a William A Wolf of City Island, NY

5. Kestrel (FI 31) is listed as owned by a Tarbell - in the registry you have 1980, so either this is his father (1966) or he owned her earlier.

6. There is a Northeast Harbor 30 Listed as named Lola - its impossible to tell which one as they are all built at the same time but she had sail #4 if that helps. She was owned by a  Thomas Wadlow, Mystic, CT.

[Steve]

Whew ... Jen need to keep you out of the used book sales 

Thanks ... let me go through this.

KESTREL was donated to HMM not long ago, btw.

-Steve

[Steve]

GANDER II would be hull 852.  I have here listed as JAB II at that time ... I'll make the change.

Thanks.

[Adam]

How did you find this? The Book lists the build date as 1930 - which is howw I came up with 1151 and 1129 - of course it could be in error...Maybe 1930 was supposed to be 1920?

[Steve]

There are still some data in Upham that has yet to be keyed in.  I looked at both hulls you pointed out, and they didn't fit the criteria.  I then paged through looking for boats with a sail number of 50 ... and there she was.  This data was in the Registry, but I had it spelled as "Bruckner" rather than "Bockner".  Corrections have been made.

[Adam]

OK- very good! So typo in the book...what fun.

[HerreshoffHistory]

Thanks Adam for these interesting info snippets!

1966 is also the last year that the yacht registers list Haswell.

But she was already gone by that time, having struck a reef near Tau Island, about 16 miles east of Nukualofa in the South Pacific, on August 17, 1964.

Before that she'd enjoyed a very successful racing career with numerous trans-Pacific crossings.

See Jacques Taglang's forthcoming Herreshoff Schooner book.

[Adam]

I'm starting to get rather interested in this schooner book.....

[Adam]

BTW, it appears that both Harquail and Wadlow are fairly accomplished yachtsman - CCA members and all that. If I can find the proper contact info I will reach out...