woodenboats in and around RI,pictures

[sawcutmill]

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[Philip Maynard]

beautiful

[S.V. Airlie]

There is a beautiful NY 30 (1905) here. I'll post a picture when her cover comes off. Should have done that last fall.

Good shots of the others though..

[rbgarr]

Thanks especially for the photos of SPIRIT. She's my favorite of the Alden schooners and used to live here. I've wondered where she went to.

Do you know what boat that is in photo #80?

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Beautiful, just beautiful.

Thanks for posting.

[mullanpete]

:) Hi There
This is a lovely set of photographs. I was invited to a wedding in new york last month and followed that up witha visit to boston, newport and mystic. I visited the yacht restoration school in newport and the museum in mystic. This story started back in 1997 with Wooden Boat magazine of october 1997. On the cover is a photo of a replica of Alerion. To me this is one of the most beautiful small boats ever built. I still have the magazine and read it often. Alerion is tucked away in the side of a shed in the museum in mystic. There should be a special building in the museum for Nat Herreshoff and Alerion should have pride of place in that building. All the marketing info and the website should draw people to go visit and see this little ship. If anyone reading this agrees with me , please let me know.
thanks
peter mullan

[S.V. Airlie]

:) Hi There
This is a lovely set of photographs. I was invited to a wedding in new york last month and followed that up witha visit to boston, newport and mystic. I visited the yacht restoration school in newport and the museum in mystic. This story started back in 1997 with Wooden Boat magazine of october 1997. On the cover is a photo of a replica of Alerion. To me this is one of the most beautiful small boats ever built. I still have the magazine and read it often. Alerion is tucked away in the side of a shed in the museum in mystic. There should be a special building in the museum for Nat Herreshoff and Alerion should have pride of place in that building. All the marketing info and the website should draw people to go visit and see this little ship. If anyone reading this agrees with me , please let me know.
thanks
peter mullan

Peter.. There are roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of the boats at Mystic are on display. As some here will tell you, there are more boats hidden away than in sight.
There just isn't the room to show them all.

Although I have a tendency to agree with you to a point but remember, there have been a lot of designers who were as good as Nathaniel who would, in my mind, deserve equal time and umm, space.

[mullanpete]

I still think that Alerion should have more space and People could get some decent pictures to bring home. The other exhibit I wanted to see was the gardner boat shop. No one was around which was a pity. The whale boat which was built there was not on display but I found it by chance across the road under a cover away at the back of a car park!
I had a great two hours visit before being dragged away by my friends.
Peter Mullan

[S.V. Airlie]

I still think that Alerion should have more space and People could get some decent pictures to bring home. The other exhibit I wanted to see was the gardner boat shop. No one was around which was a pity. The whale boat which was built there was not on display but I found it by chance across the road under a cover away at the back of a car park!
I had a great two hours visit before being dragged away by my friends.
Peter Mullan

Peter.. Nat basically has an entire museum of his own... Well, a family museum...:rolleyes:

[sawcutmill]

Peter, a little history here.My grandfather , Chas. B.Rockwell was given Alerion by Capt Nat himself, sailed her frequently, then sold her to Issac B. Merriman, and subsequently, donated to Mystic.That unusual COLOR Green is my Grandfathers doing, it is known as Herreshoff Green.
My grandfather was brought up in the Herreshoff household, adopted so to speak at age 9 or 11, as his parents died unexpectedly.He lived with them at "Love Rocks",in Bristol, RI.
He subsequently had all of his boats built by the yard, including, "Slippery Elm", "Wild Goose"( a Fisher's Island 30, and actually 1.5 feet longer than the rest of the fleet, where she is today i do not know), "Phantom" a original 12 1/2footer , (which I still own), and "Belisarius"She is in the Herreshoff Marine Museum~ All of them painted "that" Green.The Black an white Bootlines were his trademark as well.

[sawcutmill]

rbgarr~photo number 80 is a John Alden Motorboat, 1925? has lived in Wickford ,RI,for all of its life.
George W. Zachorne Jr , master boatbuilder , there, owns her, he is located in the Wickford Shipyard, he can tell you more about her, or i can ask for a more complete history is needed,http://share.shutterfly.com/action/slideshow?a=67b0de21b340bb19652e&auto=0&idx=79&m=1&d=1209818766408

[sawcutmill]

"Cormorant" is her name, by the way

[HCR]

Peter, a little history here.My grandfather , Chas. B.Rockwell was given Alerion by Capt Nat himself, sailed her frequently, then sold her to Issac B. Merriman, and subsequently, donated to Mystic.That unusual COLOR Green is my Grandfathers doing, it is known as Herreshoff Green.
My grandfather was brought up in the Herreshoff household, adopted so to speak at age 9 or 11, as his parents died unexpectedly.He lived with them at "Love Rocks",in Bristol, RI.
He subsequently had all of his boats built by the yard, including, "Slippery Elm", "Wild Goose"( a Fisher's Island 30, and actually 1.5 feet longer than the rest of the fleet, where she is today i do not know), "Phantom" a original 12 1/2footer , (which I still own), and "Belisarius"She is in the Herreshoff Marine Museum~ All of them painted "that" Green.The Black an white Bootlines were his trademark as well.

Was Slippery Elm built by Herreshoff? I can't find her in the construction record. Regarding Wild Goose (HMCo #1155) I have a note that she was renamed Rapture (A. D. Fray), but I also do not know where she has gone. Note that Wild Goose and Phantom (HMCo #1144) were contracted for on the very same day, February 2, 1930.

I also note the Warwick Fish (Neck) Class Starling (HMCo #978), contracted for in late 1925 by C. B. Rockwell, Jr.

I am compiling information on Herreshoff-built boats and would be interested in early images of Rockwell-ordered vessels (except for Belisarius which is well documented).

Oh, by the way, I have a Herreshoff cleat here in front of me, engraved with "Rainbow; Charles B. Rockwell; Herreshoff Manufacturing Company; Bristol, Rhode Island"

[sawcutmill]

HCR,Tell me more about that Cleat , please? as my grandfather knew just about everybody from Vanderbilt to Slocum, so there might be some interesting history behind it? stephen
a picture would be worth a thousand words....

[S.V. Airlie]

Here is an older one on the hard at Fort Rachel.

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s307/tancook/IMG_0183-1.jpg

[sawcutmill]

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[sawcutmill]

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[elf]

Jamie, the NY30 near you is Cara Mia. She's the less prominant boat in the slideshow on my site's opening page, behind Amorita.

[S.V. Airlie]

Jamie, the NY30 near you is Cara Mia. She's the less prominant boat in the slideshow on my site's opening page, behind Amorita.

Elf.. she is here but still under cover. This one isn't I don't think a NY30.. All I know is that the one above was built in 1914.

[sawcutmill]

built in 1914? must be a herreshoff,lol.

[S.V. Airlie]

built in 1914? must be a herreshoff,lol.

That much is true.. Don't know what she is though. I talked to the guy working on her and he didn't know either.

[rbgarr]

According to the Registry she's Mischief, one of the remaining NGH Newport 29s like this one:

http://i29.tinypic.com/2i2ctj.jpg

[S.V. Airlie]

Dave.. correct.. Found someone who knew who she was. Transom is bare. No name but Mischief is correct.