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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Where does sail # H 68 come from?

« on: March 29, 2012, 01:34:53 PM »

As for the contract date: the registry shows job # 1207 for 1934 not 1931, even though I admit that the handwriting is hard to interpret. But some job numbers before - still in 1931 - already show later months than #1207.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: Where does sail # H 68 come from?

« on: March 29, 2012, 02:39:22 AM »

Thanks for the answers - Beverly YC actually confirmed that she was known there under sail # H55. It might simply be a case of "hand-down" sails...

Wally Healy actually passed away last year and his wife Carol just sold the boat to Ted Boylan. PRECISELY will sail out of Gloucester, MA.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Re: New owner of NY30 "NEOLA II"

« on: March 29, 2012, 02:35:25 AM »

Homeport of NY30 #638 ROWDY will be Newport, RI. It can be expected that she will travel the East Coast from Maine to Long Island during her first two seasons.

Does anybody know whom she was named for? Who was Neola?

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / New owner of NY30 "NEOLA II"

« on: March 28, 2012, 04:35:03 AM »

The NY30 HMCo #638 ex NEOLA II has a new owner and is currently undergoing a full restoration in Bristol, RI.

The vessel was sold in June 2011 to Ted Boylan. The boat was named MINX at the time of the sale but will carry her old name ROWDY upon completion of the restoration in summer 2013.

The marconi rig, deck structures and interior all have been removed and discarded as none of it was original. The hull is being reframed incl. new floors, chainplates etc. The boat will be put back to its original 1905 configuration including original rig (the 1917 version though). The gasoline engine that was installed in the boat will be replaced with electric propulsion.

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Specific Herreshoff Vessels / Where does sail # H 68 come from?

« on: March 28, 2012, 04:26:34 AM »

One of my clients both the Herreshoff H12 "PRECISELY", HMCo #1207. The boat carries the sail # H68. Does anyone know who assigned this number (what fleet)?

Thanks