Sailing Related Equipment

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or threee, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

- Henry David Thoreau Walden in the Chapter "Where I lived"

Here are some sites with sailing related equipment. There are so many sites, this is but a sampling.

Resources for Traditional Stuff

Claessons Trätjära AB: Supplies maritime culture historic and traditional authentic material for ship construction and building preservation including tar, linseed oil, oakum, hemp rope, wooden blocks and many other items.
Classic Marine: They supply and make equipment for traditional and classic yachts.
Hartmann Martime Art & Design: Figurehead makers.
Martin Jeffery: Martin Jeffery is a maritime woodcarver specializing in figureheads for ships and yachts, creating both replicas of traditional designs and modern ones.
New England Traditional Boat: A blockmaker and chandlery on Mount Desert Island, Maine, specializing in high quality traditional Lignum Vitae & bronze blocks.
TOPLICHT: Germany's supplier for traditional ships.
Tri-Coastal Marine: This company was established for the restoration and preservation of historic ships starting with the restoration of the 1877 iron bark Elissa.
TradiSail: TradiSail was born in 1999 as a project for maintenance and operation of old sailing ships as well as reviving the craft of traditional seamanship. See also, TradShip.
Vintage Marine Sales Literature
Wooden Boat Fittings

Art

Orfebreria Nautica: Jewelry and sculptures with nautical motifs. Argentina.

A Very Limited Sampling of Sites for More Modern Stuff

Antal: Sailing Boat Fittings
Brion Toss Yacht Riggers
Celestaire: Navigation (mostly celestial) equipment.
C-MAP/USA Home Page: C-MAP's Electronic Charting Center(tm).
Hall Spars
IMP Marine: Produces Half Hull Models and Half Hull Model Kits of popular sailing dinghy and yacht classes.
Landfall Navigation: Navigation and safety equipment.
Peter Kennedy Yacht Services: Marine Electrical Systems.
Weems & Plath®: Traditional marine navigation instruments and authentic seaworthy gifts of distinction.
sailcloth.com: Bainbridge International's site.
Banks Sails
Doyle Sailmakers
Gary Martin Sails: Sails for multihulls. Austrailia.
Goacher Sails
Halsey Lidgard Sailmakers
Haarstick Sailmakers, Inc.
Hogin Sails: Alameda, Ca.
John Eggers Inc., Sailmaker: New Jersey.
Linthicum Sailmakers Inc.: Somerdale, NJ.
Mack Sails
MacDiarmid Sails: New South Wales, Australia and Yokohama, Japan.
Neil Pryde Sails
North Sails One Design: And also North Sails New Jersey.
Pinnell and Bax Sails
Schurr Sails: Pensacola, FL
Shore Sails
The Smyth Team: Fort Walton Beach, Florida, specializing in sails and carbon masts for multihulls.
Sobstad Sailmakers
UK Sailmakers
WB-Sails: Interesting article in the "News" section.
Z Sails, Inc.
Ockam Instruments: Includes excerpts from Ockam U.
Performance Yacht Systems: High performance sailing gear.
SAIL Magazine's Sailboat Buyers Guide: Guide to currently marketed sailboats, gear, and equipment in the U.S.
Speedtech Instruments: Offers a line of micro-electronic instruments.
Scanmar International: Makers of the MONITOR Wind Vane self-steering gear for sailboats.
West Marine: Catalog sales of boating things.
Sail Magazine's Sailboat Buyers Guide: Guide to currently marketed sailboats, gear and equipment.

I'm always open to adding resources to my list, so if you know of other items, give me a holler: mbrmbr@acm.org

Form last updated: Sat Jan 1, 2005