Signature CanvasMakers Opens Nautical Shop in Phoebus
Hampton, VA – Signature CanvasMakers celebrated moving into its own building in Phoebus and opening a maritime gift shop in March.
“We moved a whole block,” said Charlene Clark, who owns the marine canvas shop with her husband Chandler.
Chandler Clark of Hampton has been in the canvas-making business since 2005 after he learned how to make and repair sails when he was stationed in New Orleans before he retired as a Navy senior chief. The husband lived aboard a sailboat at a marina for two years while Charlene stayed in Virginia to work for Busch Gardens.

