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Correspondence, design data, specifications, construction information, and other materials, relating to yachts designed by Robb, including many materials regarding the RADIANT class auxillary ketch designed in the mid 1960's.

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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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 The Captain Robert P. Beebe Collection consists of correspondence from 1946 to 1988; design data consisting of notebooks, computer analyses, and correspondence with both owners and builders; drafts of published materials (Voyaging Under Power, 1975, magazine articles for Rudder, Yachting, and various other yachting publications); drafts of unpublished material (navigation book, Adventures in Small Craft Design); clippings from magazines and newspapers; technical data and product data; and...

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Correspondence, calculations, descriptions, sketches, articles, photographs, and other papers, chiefly relating to Fenger's development of the Main-Trysail rig. Includes his log and related information concerning his cruise on the canoe YAKABOO in 1911.

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Collection, 1926-1988, contains the business and personal correspondence, poetry, drafts of “Rudder” magazine articles, school papers, Coast Guard ID, and personal journals of L. Francis Herreshoff collected by Muriel Vaughn as well as Mrs. Vaughn’s personal and business correspondence. This collection complements the L. Francis Herreshoff manuscript collection (Coll. 138) and ships plans collection (Coll. 38).

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Records, 1938-2001, of Concordia Company. Includes records for twenty-three 17′ sloops, ninety-eight yawls, and twenty-eight other boats. The collection also includes business correspondence, bills of sale, building contracts, notes, IOR ratings, and other miscellaneous records. These records complement items in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library (SP Coll. 130) and the general collection.

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Collection, 1931-2001, consists of correspondence, business papers, published articles, photocopies of photographs and miscellaneous papers. The material in this collection complements the William Garden Collection (SP Coll. 96) in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.