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 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 ...
Lowell North, a sailmaker who won an Olympic gold medal and four world championships in the venerable Star Class and whose company North Sails became the world’s biggest sailmaker, died June 2 at his ...