William R. Watt wrote:
: just out of curiosity of what use are plans that old?

Pretty damned useful. Especially if you have one of their boats - as
I do - and are trying to rebuild it back to original condition.

Furthermore, you can get perfectly fine wood and build off their
plans and have a great boat. It doesn't require the finest wood
imaginable.

As for the hardware, you can get replica herreshoff hardware, if you
want.

ZERO alteration would be required to make one of their boats to plan.

However, when you get the plans officially, you arerequired to promise
that you will NOT make a fiberglass or concrete or aluminum version of
their boats. Of course you can break the promise - but why would you?
The design assumes wood which impacts sailing quality.


Restoration of my 84 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/SBOATrestore.htm


: the old growth wood with the close rings would no longer be available?
: Hereshoff made his own hardware, in fact his whole operation was
: completely verticaly integrated?
: how much alteration would be needed to build a lookalike today?

: Courtney Thomas ) writes:
: If so, where can they be accessed, please ?
:
: Thank you.
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: s/v Mutiny
: lying Oriental, NC
: WDB5619
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