If you walk along the harbor of any coastal city from Baltimore, Maryland, to Rockland, Maine, try to imagine a scene from 200 years ago, with hundreds of ships lining the docks while others float in the inner harbor. Thousands of men are moving cargo or repairing ship parts, and there are acres of furled white sails. When everything in the world moved by sail, sailmaking and repair was a major industry that employed thousands of people in sail lofts.
Those days
