North Sails
Lowell North, a five-time world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning sailor who was also the founder of North Sails, the largest sailmaker in the world, died on Sunday at his home in San Diego. He was 89.
His daughter Julie North said he died a day after having a stroke. She added that he had had several strokes in the past.
Mr. North’s string of championships in Star Class sailboats began when he was a teenager. From the start, he approached sailing as an engineer as well as an athlete.