I WAS boatswain of a full-rigger. It was the second dogwatch, and I was sitting in the forecastle with the able seamen. My room was in the midship house, abaft the galley. I shared it with the ...

Crack open a sailmaker’s toolbox and you’ll find a few key instruments needed to create a sail by hand. Fabric, scissors, and an industrial sewing machine are a few of them, but sailmaker Francois ...

THE four-masted ship Washaway lay rolling in the trough of the sea, in a calm gap in the Pacific Ocean, walled in by the westerly winds and the Northeast Trades. The flapping of the sails had started ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. And the bags they’ve recently begun making (tote bags, handbags, ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Lowell North, a pioneering sailmaker who won an Olympic gold medal and four world championships in the venerable Star Class, has died. He was 89. North suffered a stroke Saturday ...

YEAR. IN THE LAST BIG ONE THAT WE BUILT, WE USED PRESS RINGS, YOU MIGHT SAY BEN SPERRY FOUND HIMSELF HERE VERY MUCH BY ACCIDENT. IT WAS IN THE SKIING INDUSTRY AND BROKE MY LEG REALLY BADLY OUT WEST ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- Thomas S. Dabney, a Gulf Coast sailmaker who contributed to successful America's Cup designs early in his career but choose to return to Mobile to start a family business, died July ...

In 1982, the Sailmaker was converted to a Fifth Quarter Steak House. In an interview reported in the October 7, 1982 Chattanooga Times, a Shoney’s official said, “We’ve found the Fifth Quarter to be ...

LONDON - Ratsey & Lapthorn - which holds the claim of being the world's oldest sailmaker in continuous operation with a history of serving some of the best-known classic sailing yachts including ...

The Sailmaker closed its doors on March 3 and will reopen with a brand-new look This transformation represents a significant ...