sailmaker
noun
sail·mak·er
ˈsāl-ˌmā-kər 
: a person or company that cuts, assembles, and sews sails and canvas parts for boats
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The Puritans are gone, replaced by Maryland politicos, boaters, sailmakers, Naval Academy midshipmen — and tourists.
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Charles Babington, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Its crew of two hundred and twenty-three men included fourteen carpenters, five pilots, a butcher, a baker, a sailmaker, a writer, and a chaplain.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members helping Brauer.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
Bedwell, a sailmaker by trade, isn’t new to sailing big oceans in small boats.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
The endpapers of this handsome book are decorated with drawings of objects used during the Age of Sail—sextants, box compasses, sailmaker’s fids.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
Active free Black communities, led by men such as the brilliant Philadelphia sailmaker James Forten, managed to prevent the most extreme of such laws from sweeping into states such as Pennsylvania and New York.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
Pioneering sailmaker who won an Olympic gold medal and four world championships in the Star Class.
—George Welsh, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2019
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Charles Babington, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Its crew of two hundred and twenty-three men included fourteen carpenters, five pilots, a butcher, a baker, a sailmaker, a writer, and a chaplain.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
There were medical staff, a weather router, an expert rigger, an electronic systems manager, a sailmaker and many other team members helping Brauer.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
Bedwell, a sailmaker by trade, isn’t new to sailing big oceans in small boats.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
The endpapers of this handsome book are decorated with drawings of objects used during the Age of Sail—sextants, box compasses, sailmaker’s fids.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
Active free Black communities, led by men such as the brilliant Philadelphia sailmaker James Forten, managed to prevent the most extreme of such laws from sweeping into states such as Pennsylvania and New York.
—Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
Pioneering sailmaker who won an Olympic gold medal and four world championships in the Star Class.
—George Welsh, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2019
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“Sailmaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sailmaker. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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