Sail Sacrificial Covers

We have been busy replacing the sacrificial covers on our head sails.  The Staysail was showing signs of stripping away as 3 or 4 inch wide pieces of material were flaying in the breeze under sail.  The sails only had a second layer of Dacron as its cover and after 5 years, the material had just deteriorated to an unusable state.  So we took them down a few weeks ago (ergo: no long weekend sail during Thanksgiving).  Our friend Val offered her garage and ping-pong table as our sail loft (see earlier post here.  With the help of our trust Sailrite Ultrafeed Sewing Machine, we have completed the staysail and returned it to its furler and we are well along on the Genoa (much, much bigger).  We ran out of material (bad math on my part - (oh MIT would be upset)).  The remaining Sunbrella comes in tomorrow and we'll spend next weekend doing the sewing of our Sunbrella Sacrificial  cover on the Genoa and returning it to its place on the roller furler up front.

  

Yes, I used 3M Spray Adhesive and It Works

Brilliantly. 

Map Location

For those of you who have asked where our slip is located:

The Yellow Dot Marks the Spot

SVTERRATIMA.ORG

Google has made the whole process of renewal of a domain name so confusing that I have given up.  The new URL is

http://www.svterratima.ca/

Take note everyone if you can find me now.

Domain Confusion

For reasons that are not exactly clear, we have a problem with our domain name having been lost.  We are trying to rectify the prolem

One Down One To Go

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.   We spent the holiday finishing the cover on the staysail - which is now complete and back on the furling mechanism.  Now we have the big one to do, but the methodology works and the Sailrite Ultrafeed is a spectacular performer.  

Update

It has been a complicated week. We'll catch up with the content later.  Suffice it to say that both headsails are down and one is aboard while the other is at "Val's Sail Loft" for further work.  Both sails are getting a new sacrificial cover of Sunbrella material (and the Genoa some repairs to wear and tear).