Sail Number: A–7
Vessel Type: Buzzards Bay 30
“Mashnee” Specifications:
LOA: 46′ 6″ / 14.17m – LWL: 30′ 0″ / 9.14m – Beam: 10′ 10″ / 3.30m – Draft: 5′ 3″ / 1.60m – Hull Number: 569 – Displacement: 20,160 lbs
D/L: 323 – Sail Area: 1,400 ft² / 130.06 m² – Designer: N.G. Herreshoff – Built: 1902 – Built By: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, RI – Original Owner: Robert W. Emmons – Current Owner: Donated to MIT Sailing (2018) – Current Location: Boston, MA
Historical:
Buzzards Bay 30s were originally built in the spring of 1902 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. The 47-foot yachts were ordered by the Beverly, Massachusetts Yacht Club and were raced as a class.
Found abandoned in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. At the time of Mashnee’s restoration in Vermont, three other 30s (Young Miss, Lady M, and Quakeress III) were being restored by French and Webb in Belfast, Maine, and all four were launched in time for the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta in 2008.
The Buzzards Bay 30 Fleet (Fourteen identical Buzzards Bay 30s (30′ on the waterline and 46’6″ overall) were built over the winter of 1901–02 for members of the Beverly Yacht Club, then of Monument Beach, Massachusetts.)
- A–0 YOUNG MISS D.L. Whittemore
- A–1 NOTOS C.H. Taylor
- A–2 EVELYN John Hitchcock
- A–3 PRAXILLA John Parkinson, Jr.
- A–4 ARABIAN Robert Winsor
- A–5 QUAKERESS II W.F. Harrison
- A–6 PONTIAC J. Arthur Beebe
- A–7 MASHNEE R.W. Emmons
- A–8 ZINGARA E.M. Farnsworth
- A–9 LARIKIN Robert Bacon
- A–10 ANITA R.T. Crane III
- A–11 GAMECOCK Louis Bacon
- A–12 WAHTAWAH A. Rogers
- X-XX ARRIA Walter Cotton
Restoration:
2005 – Darling Boatworks, Shelburne, VT – Began a three plus year restoration, moulds were made to retain her hull shape. New backbone, keel, stem and horntimber, and frames were made of white oak. New engine was installed, and new planking began in October 2006, double planked above the waterline, 9/16″ cyprus on the inside and 9/16″ douglas fir on the outside, the whole planking process took four months. Port orford cedar deck planking was fastened to the deck beams, then marine plywood, the covered in epoxy/dynel. The mahogany deck house was built by French and Webb Boatbuilders. Coamings, toerails, and hatches were made of Honduran mahogany. The lead keel was sent up to Mars, melted down and recast. A new interior was fitted and installed.
May 20th, 2008 Mashnee was sent to Point Bay Marina, and launched May 31st, 2008
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner/Guardian: (1902) Robert W. Emmons
Owner/Guardian: (2018) MIT Sailing
The Mashnee Project from steven rozendaal on Vimeo.
Comments
Harris Gruber – July 23, 2016
Just lovely! ………Harris Gruber, Guide, Herreshoff Marine Museum.
Anne Johansson – September 15, 2022
My father, then a thirteen year old boy, and his eleven year old cousin, served as cabin boys on the Mashnee in the summer of 1931. My father kept a log and a personal journal of the trip which I have in my possession along with photographs.
Inspired by this experience he went on to become a yacht owner and avid sailor well into his old age. But he always insisted that of all his sailing adventures, it was those wonderful days aboard the Mashnee tha were his finest. Towards the end of his life he made several unsuccessful attempts to locate Mashnee. Unsuccessful, no doubt, because he did not know how to make good use of the internet. After looking through some old papers today I found the log and journal of his Mashnee trip and of the accompanying photos.
If you have any interest in them I would be more than happy to send you copies.
I’m so glad to find that Mashnee is still afloat (or at least as of 2008). My father would have been too.
All the best,
Anne Johansson
