Herreshoff’s Columbia dinghy

[ddeaton]

Other than Mystic, are there any plans for this? I have the book printed by Mystic and seen one of these being built at IYRS. I have the plans for Catspaw, but I like the original lapstrake version.

[Thad]

The Hart Nautical Collection at the MIT Museum has Herreshoff's plans. Herreshoff plans are not standard plans however, being mostly an offset booklet and construction drawings often with notes. In the case of the dinghy drawings many of the construction drawings referance quite a number of boats built with differences between the boats noted on the drawings. The original Columbia lifeboat was a larger boat than the one Mystic measured with decks and watertight compartments in the ends.