The Common Sense of Yacht Design Herreshoff Volume 2 First Edition 1st 1948

Description: In addition to fascinating looks into all phases of the design process and what makes a good boat, this book also does a great deal with describing the history of yachting. Further there is a lot of excellent information on aesthetics and construction, material on cruising, etc. While this is not a highly technical work full of formulas it does give a good overview of the design process and the thinking of designers. This is one of the great classics of writing about yacht design and yacht history. It was written by one of the most influential yacht designers and yachting writers of the 20th century. L. Francis was one of two sons of the famous Nathaniel Herreshoff who went into yacht design themselves. Unusually for a son of a famous father in the same field he was also a great designer and one who neither imitated his father nor felt he had to go out of his way to be different than his father. He was quite capable of turning out vessels very different from his father's style and turning right around and designing a vessel precisely the way his father would have if that was what people wanted. He was, if anything even more innovative than his father, but in a slightly different direction. Whereas his father was unbelievably good at doing careful research and engineering and producing vessels improved far beyond those of his contemporaries through carefully developed reasoning, L. Francis was much more inclined to think outside the box and come up with innovations completely without precedent. A great many of his inventions went on to become the traditions of the rest of the century.

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Location: Saco, Maine

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