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“He got me into sailing. It’s kind of crazy. All of the boats are being made here and then they go everywhere.” The Sunfish sailboat was launched in 1952. Its maker was Alcort, Inc., a ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...