If so, where can they be accessed, please ?

Thank you.
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Courtney Thomas
s/v Mutiny
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

No, Herreshoff plans are not public domain. Write to the Herreshoff Museum in
Bristol, RI for details on what is available for sale.

Sorry, I don't have the addie right at hand, but a quick google should find it
- they are online.

Steve

Not public, but available at the Hart Nautical Museum at MIT

ron

The Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection at the Hart is a royal pain to
search through. The 13,000 drawings are indexed by some arcane system
used by the Herreshoff plant. It took me 4 hours to find all the
drawings for the 12.5. As we were in Boston on vacation the first mate
was not a happy camper when I came out of the museum.

Foo Bar wrote:
Not public, but available at the Hart Nautical Museum at MIT

ron



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just out of curiosity of what use are plans that old?
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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Courtney Thomas
s/v Mutiny
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619



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just out of curiosity of what use are plans that old?
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?

You know the old saying "Where there's a will, there's a way."?

Well, where there's a will, there's also marketability. That's why there
are still-existent bronze age craft instructors, sailcloth makers,
loomspinners, renaissance faires....

A business for every interest.

Are you serious?!! "of what use" ???!! The Herreshoffs made leaps and
bounds in sail and power boats. The lines of a Herreshoff are worth the
study, and it's also amazing to see the size of the scantlings used, very
small indeed. Old hardware is still around and there are a few moulds that
people are casting with. The biggest leap isn't in the material, it's in the
construction. Herreshoff's construction methods were secret at the time and
were not passed on before the old timers died. Moulds on every frame,
tapered frames, building (even the NY50) upside down. There is plenty to be
had by old plans like that.

Sorry for the rant, but they were doing something right back then.

Eide

"William R. Watt" wrote in message
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just out of curiosity of what use are plans that old?
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.
--
Courtney Thomas
s/v Mutiny
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619



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"Eide" wrote in message
Sorry for the rant, but they were doing something right back then.


And progress produces only junk . . . :-)

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Different strokes for different folks. Function versus form versus
maintenance versus utility versus beauty versus ... ... ... the trade-offs
go on forever.

"Jacques Mertens" wrote in message
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"Eide" wrote in message
Sorry for the rant, but they were doing something right back then.


And progress produces only junk . . . :-)

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Jacques
http://www.bateau.com

Eide wrote:
:
: Moulds on every frame,
: tapered frames,

Yeah...tapered frames. All very well - removes weight at the sheer
etc. Helps performance.

But I'm here to tell you it's an infernal nuisance when you are
rebuilding (possibly easier when building from scratch).

first just getting the frames out of the flitches is much more time
consuming. They start 1" x 1" at the sheer and increase 1/16",
moulded and sided, for every foot of length.

So each rib is a different length therefore different dimensions
moulded and sided. So you cannot steam up a bunch of them and if one
breaks toss it over the side and grabe the next one out of the box.
Each is cut to size and fits only in that one location.

Still, I'm adhering to the tapers.


--- Gregg

My woodworking projects:


Replicas of 15th-19th century nautical navigational instruments:

http://home.comcast.net/~saville/backstaffhome.html

Restoration of my 82 year old Herreshoff S-Boat sailboat:

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

Steambending FAQ with photos:

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


"Improvise, adapt, overcome."

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