Practical
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Designs For The
Cruising Man
To most cruising sailors, from the weekend gunkholer to the world girdling blue water man, the name Herreshoff means yacht designs of unquestioned integrity, that are emi nently practical and are invariably beautiful to the eye.
L. Francis Herreshoff, famous son of a famous father, created many designs which are in use the world over and which will probably be built for another 30 years.
Sadly, L. Francis died in 1972, but luckily for the cruising fraternity, not before International Marine Publish ing gained permission to use a series of articles in Rudder magazine as the basis for a book of Herreshoff de signs. And what a superb collection.
Boats like the famous H2B and Tioga which of course became Ticon deroga, the boat that smashed just about every ocean-racing record avail able, are included.
Each design is presented in an in teresting “how-to-build” format and though it is not at all what is in tended, I have no doubt that a man with talent could actually build his dream boat from this book, as in deed several apparently were from the original Rudder articles.
The introduction contains the last words written for publication by Herreshoff which, along with his comments on each of the 56 designs included, reflect the designer’s philo sophy, of common sense and prac ticality.
The book is finely bound with a sprinkling of photographs to support the excellent reproductions of Herreshoff’s drawings and is a fitting tribute to one of the all-time greats
of yacht design.-
John Collins.
(Sensible Cruising Designs, By L.
Francis Herreshoff, International Marine Publishing Company, 21 Elm Street, Camden, Maine, USA. SUS2O.) PACIFIC MAPS.— Two detailed, fold-out maps in full colour of Nor folk Island and Lord Howe Island are the first of a series of the Pacific Islands now being produced by Pacific Maps of Sydney. Others will shortly follow. The map of Lord Howe Island is 21 in. by 29 in. and the Norfolk Island map is 18 in. by 24 in.
Both maps show roads and landmarks and each is available at $1.25 posted direct from Pacific Publications, Box 3408, GPO, Sydney.