In this photo taken on Jan. 20, 2010, yachtsman and graphic designer Will Sofrin displays a drawing in his workshop at the Newport Shipyard, in Newport, R.I. Sofrin is using records owned by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create prints in 2010 of two dozen of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff's most heralded yacht designs. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
NEWPORT, R.I. – Eric Tucker, of the Associated Press’ Providence bureau, has a good write up on local designer and licensed captain Will Sofrin, who has begun to create construction plans for two dozen of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff’s most heralded yacht designs, including a few that were commissioned for the America’s Cup.
As Tucker explains, “Sofrin is deciphering tables of boat measurements left with a museum at MIT, which Herreshoff attended, and using the numbers to create mathematically accurate ink drawings, including of seven yachts designed specifically for the America’s Cup.”
But some, including Herreshoff’s grandson, are objecting to the effort.
Halsey Herreshoff, a Bristol resident and the president of the Herreshoff Marine Museum and America’s Cup Hall of Fame Museum, fears that the plans could lead to replicas being produced and passed off as sanctioned Herreshoff designs, the rights to which are highly coveted and rarely approved.
For their part, Sofrin and MIT say that such concerns are unfounded.
Sofrin plans on creating 100 signed and numbers prints of each of the 24 yacht designs. Prints of the America’s Cup designs will sell for $2,300 a piece.
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