In 1914, Capt. Nat designed an open cockpit sailboat with a 12 ½’ waterline, available in both Gaff & Marconi rig, this boat was known as the Herreshoff H-12 1/2. In 1938 the folks in Fishers Island, New York asked Capt Nat for something a little more sea worthy so he modified his H-12 design by bringing the coamings more inboard so the boat could heal & he also lowered the transom & allowed the tiller to come over the transom as opposed to through the transom. He called this modification the Fisher’s Island Sound Bull’s Eye. Cape Cod Shipbuilding bought the Rights to these designs in 1947 and built wooden Herreshoff H-12’s. In 1949 Cape Cod Shipbuilding & Sidney Herreshoff created a fiberglass version of the Fishers Island Sound Bull’s Eye called the Cape Cod Bull’s Eye. The Cape Cod Bull’s Eye has a fiberglass cuddy cabin & aluminum spars. In the 1970’s Cape Cod Shipbuilding began building a fiberglass version of the original, open cockpit H-12 ½. The used 1973 Fishers Island H-12 currently on our brokerage is the first fiberglass H-12 Cape Cod Shipbuilding built and is a cross between a Bull’s Eye and an H-12. This boat has a vinyl rubrail, fiberglass floor, Bull’s Eye style water way & and seat arrangement. It does not have a cuddy cabin but it has a full length mahogany H-12 coaming & a gaff rig with sitka spruce spars. Subsequent fiberglass H-12 ½ ‘s were built using the original Herreshoff deck & cockpit specifications. It would be ideal for someone who would like to day sail.
