From Bayfront Maritime Center: "David Bierig, sailmaker extraordinaire, and that is just the beginning. He is a maritime historian, a trained naval architect, an inventor with patents, a boatbuilder, a renaissance man, a giant among us. I tell people I think if he was in Annapolis or Seattle, or Newport, people would bow... Congratulations!" David has just received an order to make a full set of sails for the Wm. Hand schooner HINDU. We love hearing how he got his first "sail" training on an amusement park ride: "It was four vehicles that hung and went around, and each had an air rudder on the bow, and you could maneuver the cars as it was going around. It could swing higher or lower depending on how you held the rudder.' Bierig said that ride "absolutely fascinated me. I learned all the principles of sail trim," he said. "It was probably when I was from 7 to 12 years old. That was my favorite ride because you could maneuver the ride. The air rudder was really just a sail, and I learned an awful lot of what I know about sail trim by fooling around on that ride. It helped my education.' ~ from the article "Another tall order for Erie sailmaker," by RON LEONARDI, Erie Times-News.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:58:30 +0000
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