Four Herreshoff 12½'s For Sale!
The Herreshoff Marine Museum has four vintage H12s for sale.

From time to time, generous owners donate their small yachts to us for use in our summer and after-school Sailing & Seamanship Programs. The past couple of years have seen a shift from exclusively vintage H12s to a mix of these and fiberglass boats which require less maintenance and are a bit more durable.

While we still use some vintage H12s in our programs, we have more than we can use or maintain. These boats are not part of the HMM collection , so we are offering four of them for sale. They range from ready-to-race to ready-to-restore.

Make one of these fine examples of HMCo. craftsmanship yours today.
SWALLOW
(HMCo. #1502 - 1939)
Very rare Marconi H12 with builder’s plate. She was built in 1939 for Mr. Arthur C. Dorrance of Fisher's Island, and she is in need of restoration.

SWALLOW is a very unique and rare boat. She is one of only 5 “Improved Model” boats built for customers in the Fishers Island fleet, of which only 3 are known to remain. The boats have a wider side deck and a raised afterdeck. 

This from the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonne:

“A. Sidney DeW. Herreshoff incorporated a number of new features into the time honored 12 1/2 footer design at his father, N.G. Herreshoff’s, earlier suggestion. The new features included a raised afterdeck with the tiller coming over rather than through the transom, coamings moved inboard slightly, copper flotation tanks under the scats which eliminated the need for watertight bulkheads fore and aft, and a special, hollow spruce spar. Many of these features were designed to make this small boat safer for the youngsters that would be sailing them. This model would be less apt to swamp and sink in rough waters as the earlier boats occasionally did.”

SWALLOW is offered at $8,000
Swallow comes with:
  • Original spars
  • Sail covers
  • Sails
CANOUAN
(HMCo. ca. 1938 - 1940)
A gaff-rigged H12 built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company sometime between 1938 and 1940.

CANOUAN comes with:
  • Original spars
  • Harding main, jib & spin
  • Teak cockpit grate
  • Cradle
She was donated to the Herreshoff Marine Museum in 2014 by her owner from the Marion fleet, and at that time, she was surveyed and found to be in very good condition. She was valued at $22,500.

Since then, she has been used sparingly in the Herreshoff Seamanship Program. She was retired from the program in 2016 because she needs work. She is in fair condition and likely needs attention to her garboards, planking and possibly some floors. Her fittings are a mix of original HMCo. bronze and Reineck bronze.

A more detailed condition report will be available soon. 

CANOUAN is offered at $10,000.
NINA
(HMCo. #986 - 1925)
NINA is one of a series of Buzzards Bay gaff-rigged 12s which were built over the winter of 1925-26. She was born with the interesting name MUMMY CHUG and built for Ms. Ruth Lionberger.

NINA comes with:
  • Original builder’s plate
  • Original spars
  • Cradle
She was donated to the Herreshoff Marine Museum in 2014 by her owner from the Marion fleet, and at that time, she was appraised and found to be in fair condition. She was valued at $13,500. At that time, NINA was in need of a new transom which she has since been fitted with. She has not been used since.

She is in fair condition and likely needs attention to her garboards, planking and possibly some floors. A more detailed condition report will be available soon. 

NINA is offered at $12,000.
HURRAH
(HMCo. ca. 1930)
Gaff-rigged H12 fully restored by IYRS in 2009.

HURRAH comes with:
  • Original spars
  • Sail covers
  • Sails – Tanbark ca. 2012
  • Cradle

HURRAH has been sailed each summer since acquired by the Herreshoff Marine Museum. She is in very good condition and ready to win races!

HURRAH is offered at $27,500
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