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12-19-2008, 08:17 AM
From: http://www.synellie.com/index.html
NGH Hull No. 586 - Nellie (Also Ishkoodah, Ediana, Mariquita and Butterfly)
Length Overall - 46'6"
Length on designed waterline - 34'6"
Displacement - 27,700
Beam - 12' 1"
Draft - 7'0"
Rig - Gaff Cutter
Two virtually identical yachts to this design were built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. in 1902 and 1903, the first being Trivia (HMCo #580) for Harold S. Vanderbilt (pictured on page 71 of the book Herreshoff of Bristol). The second was for Morton F. Plant, which he named Nellie (HMCo #586). Both were full-keel boats based on the keel/centerboarder Azor (HMCo #578) that had come out a few months earlier. Original price was $6,300 for Azor and Trivia and $6,400 for Nellie.
Azor, originally a Naushon Island-based boat for J. Malcolm Forbes, is no longer with us, but Trivia is in the Herreshoff Marine Museum, and Nellie is at the Hylan shop in Brooklin, ME.
In the biography of his father, L. Francis Herreshoff wrote, "... these three were among the nicest all-around sail boats of their size ever built."
The year 1903 was a big one for Herreshoffs as well as for Nellie's owner Morton Plant. Publicity was all about the new America's Cup defender Reliance, but Plant's two other yachts got their share of attention as well-one, the 127' steel schooner Ingomar, the other the 131' wooden-hulled steam yacht Parthenia. Nellie didn't make headlines when launched, but she had some mighty impressive stable mates!
By 1905, Plant had sold Nellie (and Parthenia as well). He was busy that year building his Italianate, four story town house-now New York City's Cartier Building, wrapped each Christmas with a gigantic red ribbon and bow, and known as the "Jewel of 5th Avenue." Awash in wealth from the sale of the railroad and shipping business his father Henry bequeathed him in 1899, Morton went on to complete Florida's Belleair Country Club, the Morton Plant Hospital in Dunedin, as well as commissioning another steel schooner, Elena, from the Herreshoffs in 1911. The University of Connecticut now occupies what used to be the Plant estate at Avery Point in Groton.
Except for a brief time in Narragansett Bay in 1906-1908, Nellie has been in western Long Island Sound waters all her life.
NGH Hull No. 586 - Nellie (Also Ishkoodah, Ediana, Mariquita and Butterfly)
Length Overall - 46'6"
Length on designed waterline - 34'6"
Displacement - 27,700
Beam - 12' 1"
Draft - 7'0"
Rig - Gaff Cutter
Two virtually identical yachts to this design were built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. in 1902 and 1903, the first being Trivia (HMCo #580) for Harold S. Vanderbilt (pictured on page 71 of the book Herreshoff of Bristol). The second was for Morton F. Plant, which he named Nellie (HMCo #586). Both were full-keel boats based on the keel/centerboarder Azor (HMCo #578) that had come out a few months earlier. Original price was $6,300 for Azor and Trivia and $6,400 for Nellie.
Azor, originally a Naushon Island-based boat for J. Malcolm Forbes, is no longer with us, but Trivia is in the Herreshoff Marine Museum, and Nellie is at the Hylan shop in Brooklin, ME.
In the biography of his father, L. Francis Herreshoff wrote, "... these three were among the nicest all-around sail boats of their size ever built."
The year 1903 was a big one for Herreshoffs as well as for Nellie's owner Morton Plant. Publicity was all about the new America's Cup defender Reliance, but Plant's two other yachts got their share of attention as well-one, the 127' steel schooner Ingomar, the other the 131' wooden-hulled steam yacht Parthenia. Nellie didn't make headlines when launched, but she had some mighty impressive stable mates!
By 1905, Plant had sold Nellie (and Parthenia as well). He was busy that year building his Italianate, four story town house-now New York City's Cartier Building, wrapped each Christmas with a gigantic red ribbon and bow, and known as the "Jewel of 5th Avenue." Awash in wealth from the sale of the railroad and shipping business his father Henry bequeathed him in 1899, Morton went on to complete Florida's Belleair Country Club, the Morton Plant Hospital in Dunedin, as well as commissioning another steel schooner, Elena, from the Herreshoffs in 1911. The University of Connecticut now occupies what used to be the Plant estate at Avery Point in Groton.
Except for a brief time in Narragansett Bay in 1906-1908, Nellie has been in western Long Island Sound waters all her life.