Herbert Lawrence Stone (January 18, 1871 – September 27, 1955) was an American magazine editor and publisher, and a renowned sailor.

Herbert's paternal grandfather Thomas Treadwell Stone was a prominent New England minister and Transcendentalist.

A year later Villard appointed his "schoolmate and lifelong friend", 37-year-old Herbert Stone, as the magazine's second editor.

Stone also wrote and edited a number of books, including his own ABC of Boat Sailing and America's Cup Races.

When the war ended Stone and a few friends bought some cargo schooners and formed Mercator Navigation Company, operating in coastal and foreign trade.

In 1909 Herbert was one of the organizers of a sailing race around Long Island, NY, and won the Brooklyn Challenge Cup in Waialua the following year.

A few months before his death friends of Stone provided a perpetual trophy in his name to go to the first yacht to finish the Bermuda Race Cruiser Division each year it is held.