The history of the sailboat is fascinating.The winds have been harnessed to travel on water for hundreds of centuries but, that wasn't sailboats. America would not be what it is today without sailboats even Christopher Colombus came on a sailboat. The sailboats were made either from 6000 B.C. to 4000B.C. and they were either made from the ancient mesopotamians or the ancient Egyptians. According to the story the first sailboat was made form a legendary blacksmith that got bored. He wanted to become the most powerful person in Egypt so, he harnessed the wind to travel the waters.