These latter were his specialty until after World War I, when he directed his talent to seakindly schooners including the famous examples Bowdoin and S.S.S.
Later during the 1930s, motorsailers became his passion; examples still sailing include 56' STEADFAST (a ketch) built at Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, NY.
Advertisements in The Rudder and Motorboat magazines, as well as MIT archives indicate he did business in New Bedford, Massachusetts prior to Fairhaven but moved offices due to the hurricanes of 1938.
The New England Hurricane of 1938 and accompanying tidal surge damaged or destroyed a good deal of Hand's design work and records.
Additional material is in Waldo Howland's book Life in Boats: The Years Before the War, published by Mystic Seaport in 1984.