The original Js were built according to the Universal Rule devised by American naval architect Nathanael Herreshoff.
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Ticonderoga, for example, is a 72-foot wooden ketch designed by famed naval architect Francis Herreshoff as an elegant family daysailer.
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In one widely reported incident, venture capitalist Thomas Perkins was fined by a French court in 1996 after his 143-foot Herreshoff schooner collided with a smaller boat at the La Nioulargue Regatta in St.