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Design 95 Game Cock

Game Cock was designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1925.  She is an R-Class sloop.  Her original sailplan was a Marconi rig with a headstay, but with no spreaders whatsoever and with only a single cap shroud per side, and no backstay.  The deckhouse came to a point at the front end like most all R-Class boats from Herreshoff. The rig was eventually changed to the wishbone boom configuration you see in the image above.  Both rigs proved to be a disappointment.

I can tell very little but that the firm was commissioned to redesign the rig as you see her drawn below and make modifications to the general arrangement, also shown.  I do not believe we were involved with the changes to her deckhouse geometry.  The plans, pulled here from our microfiche files, are obviously in deplorable condition.


 
I have no idea why this presentation plan was prepared but it conveniently shows her principal dimensions and those of the new rig.  Its curious as the files show the plan work we did was done in 1935 yet the plan below references an owner from 1944.  Perhaps that was added later as it appears to be done by a different hand.