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 ...
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 ...
One of the world’s top sailmakers is moving out of its longtime Milford home to join Bridgeport’s new seaport development Steelpointe Harbor. North Technology Group, parent company to North Sails and ...
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 a quiet textile workshop in northern Germany, far from the dangers and turmoil of war, Syrian refugees Mohammed Alsahani and his son Yousef measure, cut and stitch sailcloth to precise designs. The ...
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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 ...