The sail is almost finished - Spreader patches and numbers are on the starboard side of the sail, we are about to flip the sail and apply same to port side. You can see Scott off to the right assembli...
The tack of the sail (with our VSP logo). You can see this sail has an extremely large (7") tack cut back - remember we talked about this - so that it goes past the furling drum and attaches to the pa...
Here Christine is applying a stanchion patch on the foot of the sail.
We've jumped ahead a little, but here the sail has had all the draft stripes, luff, leech and foot tapes applied. This is the finished clew of the sail. You can see the leech and foot line cleat cover...
Christine winding a new bobbin.
Head patch has been applied and ready to stitch on the sail.
Bird's eye view of the stitched sail. You can see the amount of shape in the sail as it isn't laying flat on the floor.
Bird's eye view of the stitched sail. You can see the amount of shape in the sail as it isn't laying flat on the floor.
Sail is all in one piece. Load seams are stuck together and we are about to hold it up and inspect it before we stitch the seams.
Scott is sticking the load seam together between the top two sections
Christine is about to seam the vertical joiner seam between the tack and clew.
