Jay Nolan: “I really grew up in the sailing world”
Jay Nolan is an experienced sales and marketing manager as well as a media and events specialist, having worked for Seawind and Corsair multihulls for many years before devoting himself to his new powercat brand, Makai Yachts. Multihulls World got the chance to catch up with him for an exclusive interview.
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01/08/2023
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Gwen Dorning
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Multihulls World– Can you tell us about your background in the sailing industry?Jay Nolan – It’s probably easiest to say that I’m sort of a child of the marine industry. My father was the general manager of a winch company in the 1970s, called Barlow winches. I really grew up sailing and was quite familiar with the boating industry in general from a young age. He became the president of a company that owned Lewmar, Navtech, Kenyon stoves and others like B&G electronics at the time, and that got us moving around the world, though we spent quite a lot of time in France. This unique context r…