BORN IN 1933, CHICAGO ILLINOIS
Murphy&Nye and sailing: an historic relationship dating back to the last century, when in 1933 Jim Murphy and Harry Nye Jr founded their sails manufacturing company in Chicago, specializing in boats sails production.
Shortly, they became renowned for their cutting-edge technologies mainly in manufacturing sails for scows sailing the big American lakes and sails for ice boats sailing frozen lakes in winter. Lynn Williams – owner of yacht Elisabeth and M&N’s first client for big dimension sails - won the historic Mackinac Race in Lake Michigan in 1933 thanks to these high-performing sails.
Year after year the involvement of Murphy&Nye in the world of regattas got more and more intense, in that in 1937 Milton Wegerfurth won the Star championship using M&N sails.