Obituary: To make sailboats go faster, Lowell North found he had to drop all his preconceptions
Lowell North learned to sail as a teenager in Southern California. By age 14, he was already using a scissors to reshape the mainsail of his Star class racing boat and make it go faster.
Malin Burnham, a teenage sailing sensation, took note and invited Lowell to be his crewman in the world championships for Star boats. “It wasn’t me Malin wanted,” Mr. North recalled later. “It was my mainsail.”
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