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- noun The occupation of making
sails .
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Examples
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I was also working at sailmaking for a man named Baker.
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Other materials such as nylon, Mylar, and Kevlar are also used in sailmaking.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Other materials such as nylon, Mylar, and Kevlar are also used in sailmaking.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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The 26 year-old Kiwi comes to the GOR with a variety of experience ranging from business start-ups to sailmaking and shorthanded ocean racing.
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Obviously you need the right mix of skills such as helming, trimming, bowmen, sailmaking, rigging and engineering, yet it is just as important to select people who will work well as a team.
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The couple's ski guide, Wayne Watson, said Robinson, a former Olympic sailing coach who had retired from his sailmaking company, died with his wife and best friend by his side.
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The couple's ski guide, Wayne Watson, said Robinson, a former Olympic sailing coach who had retired from his sailmaking company, died with his wife and best friend by his side.
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Out came the cigars that [Jerry] Kirby (USA) stashed away and a bit of rum and coke that Justin [Ferris, NZL] had buried in the sailmaking kit (courtesy of our enterprising young sailmakers Scoob and Tom who put the rum in a small bottle and labelled it 'sewing machine oil'!).
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While his sailmaking and canvas fabrication business was quickly amassing him a fortune by day, by night the little factor district was turned into a nightly New Year's Eve Party.
MousePlanet 2009
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Young men in Twelve Tribes communities can do apprenticeships in navigation, woodworking, piloting, rigging and sailmaking on the ship.
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