Sail Number:
Vessel Type: Gaff Sloop
“Nellie” Specifications:
LOA: 52’0″ / 4.83m – LOD: 46’6″ / 14.17m – LWL: 34″6″ / 10.51m – Beam: 12’1″ / 3.68m – Draught: 7’0″ / 2.13m – Displacement: 27,700 lb / 12,564.51kg – Sail area: 1,300 ft² / 120.77 m² – Builder: Herreshoff Mfg. Co – Former name(s) Butterfly, Marquita, Ediana, Ishkoodah – Current owner: Jeffrey Boal and Fernando Alva – Year Built: 1902 – Design No 586 – Original Contract Price: $6,400 – Documentation: 131013
Historical
Two similar yachts to this design were built by the Herreshoff Mfg. Co. in 1902 and 1903, the first being TRIVIA (HMCo #580) for Harold S. “Mike” Vanderbilt. 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.
Provenance (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
Owner: (1902-1904) – Morton F. Plant
Owner: (1904) – Henry F. Parmalee, New Haven, Connecticut
Owner: (1906) – Sam M. Nicholson (Nicholson File Company) of Providence, RI
Owner: (1908) – Wm. E. Iselin, New Rochelle.
Owner: (1911) – John A. Crowley, Brooklyn, NY
Owner: (1917) – Harry B. Shaen of New York City
Owner: (1920) – Stuyvesant Wainwright of New York City
Owner: (1935) – Theodore S. Sitterley of New York City, Larchmont Yacht Club.
Owner: (1936) – William E. Lungren of New York City who kept her at Port Washington.
Owner: (1947) – S. Gordon Barnett, Jr., West Orange, NJ who kept her at City Island.
Owner: (1956) – Thomas Rickenback of Riverside (later Stamford), CT.
Owner: (1979) – James Lloyd, Darien, CT
Owner: (2003) – Independence Seaport Museum (donation)
Owner: (2007) – Jeffrey Boal and Fernando Alva.
Owner: (2014) – Leslie and Richard Fairbanks, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich CT/Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club , Blue Hill Maine. (tender, Atlantide)