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Writing for The Boston Globe, Kevin Hartnett explores the work of Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, an MIT graduate widely regarded as one of the most influential yacht designers. Hartnett writes that in a sense, Herreshoff was the “Bill Belichick of yacht design, seeing possibilities within the existing rules that others didn’t.”

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