Ah, no, I was asking how your project is progressing. Mine are stalled currently and I have yet to do anything to the yawl Wasp other than remove the over-long boom. I'm still figuring out how to rig it. Most is straight forward but I can see no evidence for mizzen mast rigging and cannot figure out the original helm control device. The portion on the rudder post seems to be original and complete but the forward part has been replaced and beneath the current confection there are concentric circular marks with a central screw hole. I'm thinking maybe a fitting with concentric cylinders over which an elastic band linked to the tiller could be placed, with each cylinder used changing the tension on the elastic band and therefore on the tiller. But I have yet to find contemporary evidence for any remotely similar device. I've attached photos of the tiller and the circular marks, and the only period photo of a similar model yawl I have found. This model is not Wasp. It has too much sheer and a hatch. Unfortunately, its mode of steering is not visible.
Wasp intrigues me. She was clearly a major project for her builder and yet she has no hatch. She is lightly built for pond sailing and not more heavily built for open water skiff sailing, and does not have the peg board for that. Her yawl rig and wooden fin with integral ballast suggest British influence since the yawl rig never quite caught on stateside and American model yachtsmen preferred metal fins and bulb keels in the 1890s. She was reportedly owned and likely built by a Port Washington resident named James Smith. The likliest candidate I have found in the census returns available lived in a neighboring town in 1891 and was born in the UK. He would have been in his 20s in the 1890s.