L. Francis Herreshoff Yacht Designer (Volume 1)
by: Taylor, Roger C.

Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 449 pages, many b&w illustrations. L. Francis Herreshoff (1890-1972) was the most remarkable yacht designer of his time. Beginning his career in the shadow of his famous father, Nathanael G. Herreshoff, he emerged to become a designer who approached the perfection of form in yacht design. His unconventional designs, and his innovative engineering of hull and rig, made him a peer among his more prolific contemporaries. Taylor's book is well researched and documented and brings out many relatively unknown aspects of LFH's life and designs through 1930, the phase in which he was primarily a racing yacht designer. Clean, bright copy.