1) From patterns made from the lofting floor we will fabricate the various members of the backbone in preparation for setting it up on the molds. By means of these patterns we need only do one layout for all the boats, again a saving if more than one boat is being built. The members of the white oak backbone and the heart pine deadwood will be bolted with bronze bolts. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company used iron, but the relationship between material costs and labor costs was very different in those days. Today it makes sense to use the best and most enduring materials.

2) The molds are made from the lofting. This task need only be done once for all the yachts built of this design. The Herreshoff method used a mold for every frame saving time in the steaming and installation of the frames and in the set up. Each frame is steam bent directly over its corresponding mold. The white oak frames are steamed and bent over the molds, and held in place pending the planks being fastened to them with bronze screws. The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company pioneered the use of bronze screws in yacht construction for plank fastenings rather than copper rivets because of this manner of setting the boat up upside down with every frame over a mold.

3) At the same time the backbone is being set up we can fabricate the raised paneled bulkheads berths and other members of the interior and the deck joiner work from patterns already made. As with the deck joinery there will be additional savings When we are getting out the members for more than one boat at a time. Although most original NYYC 30 interiors would probably have been painted white with varnished mahogany trim, it would also to be traditional to have varnished mahogany, cypress, or cedar. Herreshoff often used varnished red cypress for interiors because it is light in color and light in weight. Black walnut would look very elegant set off by some creamy white. Perhaps one might paint the bulkheads creamy white and have the fore and aft paneling, like the settee fronts, varnished black walnut to make a very elegant interior.

4) Planking is the next task. The NYYC 30's are single planked of heart pine for the garboards and the broads up to beneath the turn of the bilge. The rest of the way up to sheer the planking is double with Heart pine or Douglas fir over cypress or Atlantic white (also called Southern or Juniper) cedar. The garboard seam and the single planking are caulked, but the double planking does not need to be. The double planking is one reason for the endurance of Herreshoff construction. The sheer strakes were oak on the original boats, but we are considering making the sheer strakes on ORIOLE of mahogany. With oak one must use butt blocks whereas with mahogany it is safe to have a glued scarf. The hull is diagonal strapped with bronze.

5) The hull is faired while still upside down on the molds. It is then turned over and installed on top of the lead ballast keel.


6) The white pine deck planking will already have been milled out and the v-groove underside will have been painted. The deck planking is laid and caulked and then canvas covered. The canvas is bedded with a canvas bedding compound, and then painted. The deck is installed over sawn oak deck beams. The deck has a set of diagonal bronze straps in the way of the mast partners.

7) The trunk cabin and the hatches will have been fabricated off the boat after the interior joiner work and bulkheads, so they should be ready to be installed as soon as the deck is on. As with the interior joiner work and paneled bulkheads, much of the deck joiner work such as the trunk cabin, hatches, and coamings will be laid out from the original patterns. The deck joiner work on the original NYYC 30's was mahogany.

8) The original spars were solid of Douglas fir. When the NYYC 30 LINNET was built Mr. Herreshoff re-designed the NYYC 30 spars to be hollow. For this he increased the diameter slightly and changed the material of the mast and boom to Washington (Sitka) spruce. We are building NYYC 30 spars according to the Herreshoff modification for LINNET. The bowsprit is of heart pine.

9) The engine should be a small light engine such as a Yanmar. On ORIOLE the shaft with folding propeller will be installed in the manner shown in L. F. Herreshoff's construction drawings of the ARAMINTA ketch and the QUIET TUNE ketch for minimal drag. The fuel tank will be installed under one of the saloon settee seats.

10) The plumbing system will be simple with hand pumps in the head and galley. The WC should be a reliable Wilcox skipper. The water tank can be under the settee seat opposite the fuel tank.

11) The electrical system should be kept very simple. One of the most expensive components of the electrical system is the panel. The more items there are in the electrical system, the more expensive the panel. Since the NYYC 30's should be kept simple, it is tempting to eliminate electrical lights in the interior, and to use oil lamps instead. The navigational lights should be electric though.

12) The NYYC 30's would traditionally have their hulls painted white. We like Epifanes #24 Nautiforte creamy white enamel. The anti-fouling bottom paint would typically have been a "Herreshoff green." We like Epifanes varnish for deck joiner work and all other exterior varnish. The canvas deck might be a light gray, or a sand color. The interior finish is mentioned above in #3, but we suggest that the underside of the v-groove deck planking be painted creamy white, and that the deck beams be varnished. For the interior satin varnish is often used.