Herreshoff of Bristol: A Photographic History of America's Greatest Yacht and Boat Builders

by Maynard Bray

Photographs of yacht building. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937822191
• ISBN13: 9780937822197
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.1" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A tantalizing photo-biography of the boat-building company.

HERRESHOFF OF BRISTOL, is a loose biography of a company, told in text and photographs. The lives of the company's primary players, John Brown Herreshoff and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, and those of their children who were involved with the company are included as they relate to the evolution of the company, and the boats they built. It is fortunate that members of the family were photography enthusiasts, Agnes, Nathanael Jr., and Katherine Herreshoff DeWolf, as well as employee Tom Brightman are noted as primary sources of the photos. Of necessity, the biography of people is limited, and that of the company seems to be focused on events with good photographic record. The famous boats built to defend the America's Cup are given due, but not excessive, space. In all, the volume whets the appetite for more detail: of the feats of engineering, the evolution of boat and yacht design, the non-nautical enterprises, and the personnal lives. It cannot deliver all this, ! and there is little else to look to other than visit the museum in Bristol, Rhode Island. If you admire inspired engineering, proficient historic photography, and boats in general, you will greatly enjoy this book. Those like me, hungry for further detail, will find it tantalizing, rather than truly satisfying.