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Historical Beauty, Precision and Performance
Since 1878, the Herreshoff family has been designing and building select high quality yachts, including the famed Reliance and Westward, the most technologically advanced racing yachts of their time.
The legacy continues today in Herreshoff Designs, where Halsey Herreshoff and Adam Langerman lead a highly qualified team designing and engineering modern yachts based on classic principles and exacting standards. Whether a new custom design or translating historical Herreshoff plans, we offer unequaled knowledge of Herreshoff methods and a passion for perfection. The result: thoroughbred yachts offering uncompromising performance.
Follow the two-year restoration of Marilee, a Nathanael G. Herreshoff-designed New York 40 sailing yacht, in a new documentary this month.
This was not your typical restoration of a wooden classic. With access to the original Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.’s building plans, documents and images archived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Hart Nautical Collections and the Herreshoff Marine Museum, this project pushed the envelope in both perfection and ingenuity. here
The NY40 class was originally designed in 1916 as a gaff-rigged yacht for the New York Yacht Club. While combing through the plans at MIT, an original Herreshoff drawing of Marilee's Marconi rig was discovered, penned by Capt. Nat himself. This sparked the unique idea of building two separate rigs for Marilee — both a Marconi and gaff. Reinforcement of the hull structure was designed and engineered to accommodate the different loads these rigs would have on Marilee's hull, plus the ability to switch out the rigs within a day or two was realized. [links]
Moving up the tonnage spectrum there’s the Corsair line, which includes the 24-foot Dash 750 MKII, and Farrier Marine’s F-22. Not only do these boats serve up blistering speeds for a jaunt around the harbor, they can also double as pocket cruisers, like the West Wight Potter. (How often do you get a chance to mention these three boats in the same sentence?) [links]
Even the proper length of a daysailer, an aspect of small-boat design that might seem self evident, has become a subject of debate, as the “daysailer” concept has come to include boats with LOAs of 40 feet or more.
Among the most beloved daysailers are those that hark back to an earlier age. Indeed, in some cases these are boats that have enjoyed production runs spanning generations. Chief among these would have to be the cute-as-a-button Beetle Cat, which has been in production since the 1920s in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Competitive sailing is only part of what these great little designs have to offer: they are also perfect for just taking a spin on a sunny day: (clockwise from top) the J/70, Ensign, Flying Scot and Archambault 27
Kurt Hasselbalch, former Curator Hart Nautical Collections MIT Museum, produced Lighter, Stronger, Faster: The Herreshoff Legacy Exhibit and oversaw the digitization of the HMCo. plans collection, previously loaned and then donated to MIT by Rudolph Haffenreffer. [links]
On December 21, 1896 the Naval Torpedo Station honored Capt. Nat Herreshoff by inviting him to Newport for maneuvers and a photoshoot of three generations of Herreshoff torpedo boats. From left to right in the above photo, Capt. Nat arrived aboard his latest design PORTER (TB-6), just her second day underway after launching and installation of machinery. He is joined by the 1887 STILETTO (WTB-1) and the Navy’s first sea-going torpedo boat the 1890 CUSHING (TB-1). It was a well-deserved recognition, because it was upon the first two Herreshoff hulls that the Navy developed a basic torpedo warfare capability- a weapon and the vehicle to deliver it. [1]
Above all, these papers are a search for the facts. An attempt to satisfy the caution Capt. Nat expressed in a letter to W. P. Stephens, “Do not you think it is better… not to make statements until you know the facts?”[2]
However, research has proven this narrative to be overly simplistic and plain wrong on a number of counts. To cite just two: it is problematic to claim Herreshoff built the first torpedo boat, and the primary Navy inspector throughout the building of all the torpedo boats was a collaborator and supporter who risked his career in that effort. Additionally, like some other HMCo. stories it is presented as if the company existed in a vacuum devoid of a complex customer, competitors, and other outside forces, institutions and personalities. This series of papers aims to take these factors into account alongside a more thorough examination and analysis of the historical record. The papers will be published at intervals throughout the remainder of 2021.
1. The Players, 1860
2. Civil War and its Aftermath
3. LIGHTNING: A Win for the Herreshoff System
4. STILETTO: The Quest for Parity with Europe
5. CUSHING: The Fight to Build the Herreshoff Design
6. PORTER & DUPONT: Herreshoff Performance vs Navy Bureau Mediocrity
7. The Herreshoff 30-Knot Torpedo Boat: A Reach Achieves Both Success and Failure
8. Postscript
In 2001 the late Bristol historian Richard Simpson published Building the Mosquito Fleet: The U.S. Navy’s First Torpedo Boats and followed up in 2016 with Goat Island and the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station: Gun Cotton, Smokeless Powder and Torpedoes. These contained new information on the Herreshoff torpedo boats that he was wise enough to rescue from the trash heap during changing administrations and downsizing of the Newport Torpedo Station. A good friend, he donated much of his archive to the Museum.