30 years..........

Well this year I will have been a sailmaker for 30 years. In a way that is exciting in another I am shocked. How can I be that old? Sailmaking has changed so much in the time that I have been a sailmaker. The fabrics are so interesting and the hardware is amazing. We don't use much in the more "new and innovated" fabrics here, but I love to learn about it. Once in a while I get a repair that uses some fabric I don't recognize and I call the vendors and find out who makes it and get some in. That is so fun for us. I am grateful for the time I have had as a sailmaker and hope to continue on. Sadly there are fewer of us and more leave the industry every year. On the floor is some repairs and a funky mizzen that a customer has designed(you know who you are). A blue drifter will start shortly. Blue is only bad luck on fishing boats, so I am okay with doing this for him. I found a unfinished oceanus genoa in my pile of sails. I think we will finish it up and find a home. So this year of turning 30 in the business. I am okay with it. My hair may be grey, but the body is holding up.