sailmaker , also: sail maker

She learned that he was an expert sail maker and leather-worker.

It is one of the oldest and largest sail maker in the United States.

In the meantime Ned had sent all the sails to the sail makers yard.

After graduation, he worked as a sail maker.

They generated vast business for shipyards, timber merchants, rope and sail makers.

At the same time the advent of the steamship forced canvas mills and sail makers to search for new markets.

"We had an idea that we could make them properly, so we found a local sail maker who produced some for us to sell."

Grignard was the son of a sail maker.

It is the naval architect or sail maker that sets the cut of the sail for the draft-camber relationship.

The offices of Apex Realty, a sail maker, and the harbormaster occupied the space to our left.

The sail makers made up resplendent suits of sails, to replace the faded and weather-stained articles.

The carpenters replaced the timbers that had been shot away, and the sail makers re sewed the torn sails.

Then Althuda brought down a bolt of canvas and sail maker needle, thread and palm.

Harry slept on, unaware that Fair-hairn, having raided the sail maker locker, was busy stitching him up.

The Mallory's of Mystic, Connecticut began as sail makers in 1819 and by 1945 had developed into America's largest ship owner.

Commonly, shipyards built the hulls of vessels and, after launching, riggers and sail makers outfitted them.

A Dutch surname for a family of sail makers, or a family of contractors (or bricklayers)

To reduce their financial commitment in later years Ratsey & Lapthorn, the sail makers, presented the sails.

The sail makers laid out the damaged canvas on the decks and squatted over it, long needles flying as they cobbled up the tears and rents.

In molding, a curved mold is designed and created in the optimum (three dimensional) shape of the sail that the sail maker wants to produce.

There were also five sawyers, three block makers, two ship's riggers, three sail makers, a tin plate worker and four blacksmiths.

That, in turn, would have a ripple effect throughout the economy, boosting ancillary companies like sail makers and furniture makers and creating thousands of jobs, they say.

The ship's sail maker threaded his needle and donned his leather palm to sew Kadem into the winding sheet formed by the skin.

At that time, as well as shipwrights, New Quay had half a dozen blacksmith shops, three sail makers, three rope walks and a foundry.

His father is in the rigging department at Hathaway, Reiser & Raymond, sail makers in Stamford, Conn.