L. Francis Herreshoff, Yacht Designer

摘要

If you grew up in a house where your bedroom was next to the model room of one of America's most distinguished yacht designers, and if your play-ground was the workshops and ways of one of the country's leading yacht builders and its skilled workmen your daytime minders, it might seem the most natural thing in the world for you to grow up and become a yacht designer yourself and enjoy the approbation of your legendary father. Or, it might prove to be among the most difficult tasks you would accomplish in your life. As the first volume of Roger C. Taylor's new biography makes clear, it was definitely the latter for L. Francis Herreshoff (1890-1972).