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1890 – 1972 · Marblehead, Massachusetts

L. Francis Herreshoff

Naval architect and writer — Marblehead

Nathanael's son, and a very different designer: an aesthete and a writer whose books taught two generations of amateurs to build. His Rozinante and H-28 have been home-built up and down the West Coast.

Trained
At HMCo in Bristol, then under W. Starling Burgess
Practice
Independent from 1926, Marblehead
Books
The Common Sense of Yacht Design (1947) and a long run of essays
Honour
National Sailing Hall of Fame, 2014
  • 1936Ticonderoga — 72-ft clipper-bowed ketch
  • Tioga / Bounty — 57-ft ketch
  • Rozinante — double-ended canoe yawl, widely home-built on the West Coast
  • H-28 — the classic amateur-build cruiser
  • Meadowlark — shoal-draft leeboard ketch

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