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This collection, mostly fishing draggers and scallopers, also includes commercial cargo carriers and yachts as well as collected plans of other designers.

Abstract Collection, 1898-1997, of Bror Tamm, boat builder and designer. Includes information on specific boats, research on various rigging components and types of boats, as well as Tamm's personal records, journals, schoolbooks with drawings, correspondence, and business records spanning his entire lifetime. There are also files organized for Tamm by his daughter, Edna Tamm Verzuh, and posthumous records that she kept as well. This collection complements Bror Tamm artifacts in the general...

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Plans produced by W. Starling Burgess from the mid-1920's to the mid-1930's while working in several partnerships. Plans are primarily for sailing yachts, and some one design classes are represented, including M class sloops and 12 meters. Drawings for the America's Cup defenders ENTERPRISE (1930) and RAINBOW (1934) are included.

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Blueprints and original plans drawn and collected by Captain Robert P. Beebe for traditional small craft, especially sharpies and canoes, and ocean-going passagemakers.

Abstract Correspondence, yacht construction specifications, magazine and newspaper articles, logbooks, charts, drafts of books and articles, scrapbooks, notebooks, personal papers, photographs, negatives, photo albums, and other materials, reflecting Mitchell's activities in American yachting, sailing, and boating, including his participation in the Newport Bermuda Race, Royal Ocean Racing Club's transatlantic race, America's Cup trials, and others, and his voyages throughout the Caribbean and around...

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Mower's original drawings for yachts in power and sail, including sloops, yawls, cat boats, schooners, ketches, cutters, and power launches. Some one design classes are included, as well as vessels published as "How To Build" designs in Rudder magazine.

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This collection includes plans for both motor and sailing yachts as well as plans drawn and collected by Edson B. Schock and Edson I. Schock. Designers represented include John G. Alden, Eldredge-McInnis, Inc., Frederic S. Nock, A. Cary Smith and Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. For information on other plans by the Schocks, refer to Ships Plans collections Edson B. Schock and Edson I. Schock (Collection 49) and Schock Family (Collection 123).

Abstract Manuscripts of Davis's published and unpublished works, including several journals written and illustrated by Davis of various yachting cruises and races; published materials as well as personal correspondence, contracts, tax records, and sketches relating to pieces written either by or for Davis, including pages from Yachting, Forest and Stream, and Outing Magazine; notes and newspaper clippings relating to certain yacht races, including some sponsored by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club;...

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The collection contains plans for watercraft in all sizes, sail and power, commercial and recreational. Some wartime work and military conversions of yachts are also included as well as work collected from other designers. This material complements the time line of the material contained within the Philip L. Rhodes collection (Collection 80).

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This collection contains tracings made by Edson B. Schock and Edson I. Schock from original plans by A. Cary Smith and other designers. For information on other plans by the Schocks, refer to Ships Plans Collections 113 (Charles D. Schock) and 123 (Schock Family).