Nathaniel S. Wilson (born 1947) is a Master sailmaker, rigger, and sail designer based in

East Boothbay, Maine Boothbay is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,003 at the 2020 census. It includes the neighborhoods of Back Narrows, Dover, Linekin, Oak Hill, Ocean Point, Spruce Shores, and the villages of East Boothbay and T ...

. He is most well known for building sails for large traditional sailing vessels in the United States and abroad. He has been an innovator in the sailing industry, helping to develop the modern ship sail cloth Oceanus with North Cloth. Wilson is a local legend in Maine and is known worldwide for his expansive knowledge of sailmaking and rigging, both for traditional and modern vessels. Ships that have or have had sails and/or rigging built by Wilson include the U.S.S. ''Constitution'', USCGC ''Eagle'', Charles W. Morgan, '' Pride of Baltimore II'', ''Sultana'', ''Clearwater'', ''Spirit of Massachusetts'', ''American Eagle'', '' Lettie G. Howard'', ''

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'', ''Shenandoah'', ''Alabama'', ''Godspeed'' and ''Niagara'', amongst thousands of other vessels of various sizes and shapes.Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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'', 2012.

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