Globe Pequot / Sheridan House
Pages: 398
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-57409-287-5 • Paperback • July 2009 • $29.95 • (£25.00)
L. Francis Herreshoff, a great designer in his own right, wrote a fascinating biography of his father. He was also the author of The Compleat Cruiser, one of the enduring classics of American sailing literature.
Chapter 1: The Time and the Place
Chapter 2: Captain Nat's Ancestors
Chapter 3: The Herreshoffs
Chapter 4: Captain Nat's Education
Chapter 5: The First Designs of N. G. Herreshoff
Chapter 6: Captain Nat Forms a Partnership with His Brother John
Chapter 7: Captain Nat's Home Life
Chapter 8: Captain Nat's Methods of Designing
Chapter 9: The Works of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Chapter 10: Captain Nat's Designs of the Eighteen-Nineties
Chapter 11: Designs from 1900 to 1910
Chapter 12: Captain Nat's Designs Between 1910 and 1920
Chapter 13: Captain Nat's Later Designs
Chapter 14: Mr. Herreshoff's Later Life and Friends
Chapter 15: Some of Captain Nat's Accomplishments
Appendix Partial List of Herreshoff-Built Boats
A chatty, homey, well-illustrated biography, making pleasant and informative reading from cover to cover.
— The Boston Globe
This is a book that every yachstman with a real interest in his sport will enjoy tremendously.
— Yachting World
Chatty and accessible, it gives a marvelous insight into the character and influences of one of the world's greatest yacht designers. Illustrated with 50 pages of photographs.
— Classic Boat
From the first small boats to steam launches, torpedo boats, cup defenders and great yachts of Vanderbilt, Hearst and Morgan, this is a story both surprising and complex.
After reading such a book, you realize it stands out above the rest...the pages teem with human interest, philosophy and accumulated wisdom as secrets of a great master are revealed.
— The Ensign