Good bronze work just looks good enough to eat!
The Herreshoff yard made EVERYTHING... I highly recommend "Temple to the Wind" by Christopher Pastore, Lyons Press, 2005.
When the word came out about the recent America's Cup death, it echoed the loss of sailors aboard Reliance at the beginning of the last century. That boat was deemed a serious danger by many, but the show went on.
It is very cool that some of the finest minds at MIT were awed by the rotary engine designed by Nat Herreshoff when he was very young.
I'm hoping to get to the Herreshoff Museum this summer.