On a stripper using 1/4" thick strips the "strength" is in the fiberglass layers, not the wooden core. The function of the core is mainly to increase...
It's a combination of general wear and tear protection and keeping the leech from stretching - at which point it would start to flap or flutter badly...
That second tack grommet is a cloth downhaul. Theoretically it allows you to increase or decrease tension on the sail's luff and flatten it a bit, or...
I did one for a guy who sailed in a pretty protected lake with light winds most of the time, so he wanted to increase the size a bit. Top of my head...
The sail in the middle of this illustration is one of the lugsail conversions that I designed and built for a Skerry. I think it both looks and works...
That's a pretty hack way to re-cut a leech which tends to flap or "motorboat". No sailmaker worth his palm would leave a hot-cut edge bare on a sail....
I use the crepe sole of an old shoe to clean sandpaper. Speed matters when sanding resin as well. Back in the days when using a big disk on polyester...
It really shouldn't matter, as in either case you want the jib luff as tight as possible with as little sag as possible. The jib should have been cut...
We know that because it didn't look like the Hindenburg when it popped. It would have been a very big fireball. I have wondered though where they get...
I don't know whether these things are hobbies, or just the things that make up who I am. I used to play music professionally and still play, just for...
We eventually adopted zone waxing for both fiberglass and wooden skis. The polyethylene bottoms on fiberglass skis were hot-waxed like downhill skis...
I would think it would be OK as long as you are moving it forward on the yard. Moving it aft would probably kill your luff tension on a balanced lug....
I still have a closet in my attic packed with probably eight pairs of cross-country skis and several pairs of downhill skis. Having been a dealer, I...
I can't remember whether I saw it somewhere or if it was my own Idea. Just another one of those unusual things that I never got around to trying. My...
What strikes me most is the photo showing clearly that radial corner patching doesn't set properly on cross or vertically cut sails. Sorry, but that...
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