A business profile: Great bags out of old sails



5:36 AM Mon 7 Mar 2011 GMT
'Hoist away bag - every one is different' .
The last good use we heard of for the old sails from your boat was to send them to Haiti for the survivors of their catastrophic earthquake. Now there's another, and so good we wonder why every country - even state - in the world doesn't have a business like this - stitching old sails into bags! ..and how many thousands of those are lying around in lockers or garages? This one is just a small home-based business, operated by keen sailor Laura Cleminson, who lives on the coast of Maine in the USA, and is an active member of ...


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by Lee Mylchreest





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