Sails by Sailrite

I had Sailrite design a kit for CS20 sails that are a bit larger than the standard sails. Since this set has some roach (convex leech end) they require battens to keep from flogging. This kit also has two reef points so it is a bit more of a complicated build than a set without reefs. So, like boatbuilding, once you have something that looks like a sail, you are about 25% done. There is lots of wrestling large rolls of fabric into the machine to get a tiny row of stitches sewn into the middle of the sail.

Thanks to Kevin and Joy for lending me their home including emptying out their living room for a couple days so we could spread out.  Here is a small stop action of the process once we had most of the panels sewn together. This clip shows the joining of the last two sections of the main sail to form the final sail shape. The photos are from the GoPro Hero my lovely wife gave me for my birthday. If anyone out there knows of some good resources for learning to get good quality time lapse videos from GoPro files I would love some input.

 


There was still lots of work after this including hemming the leech, adding a bolt rope to the luff, and adding a tape to the foot. Still to come is adding all the grommets in the corners, sewing webbing loops for the sail slides, riveting the headboard in place, and various other little tasks. But for the most part, the sails are done!

I'll post more pics of some of the sail detail work soon.