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Evolution was launched in 1880. She was built to sail in the ten-ton class, and was the first yacht of which I can find any record to carry a bulb of lead on the keel. The transition to the Herreshoff fin-keel was natural and easy.
The first yacht to be fitted with a weighted centerboard was Rocket, whose sheer-plan and mid-section are on p. 112.
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"RORQUAL," TWO AND ONE-HALF RATER, 1894.
Niagara, a most successful yacht of the bulb-fin type, was designed by Mr. Nat Herreshoff for Mr. Howard Gould in 1895. She made a splendid record that year in British waters. She was sailed by Captain John Barr, who was skipper of Thistle when Volunteer beat her in 1887.
Jubilee, a fin-keel, with lead bulb and
