On my first cruise this spring, I stupidly took the boat out in 25+ kt winds and 4-6' seas. Certainly not the smartest thing to do on your first shakedown cruise. 
But I just had to get out there and scream at the wind. Thankfully, the only thing that happened was that EVERYTHING down below ended up on the floor. I was lucky, any number of things could have happened; missing cotter pins, faulty through hull hose fittings, loose shrouds, etc. It won't happen again. :naughty:
I did lose the cover to my pedestal though. It was old, ratty and was brown sunbrella fabric, while the new main sail cover is burgundy....perhaps I purposely lost in by accident? :Liar:
So I decided to make a new one. Never sewed, don't know a button hook from a button hole. I happened to find a snippet of a video on YouTube from Sailrite on how to make a pedestal cover. It couldn't GET an easier!!!!
I spent about $60 on fabric, needles, zippers, the whole video instruction, thread, a soap pen (gotta have a soap pen!) and took some 6mil plastic sheeting down to the boat and made a pattern.
I then borrowed my sister-in-law's cheap ass Singer sewing machine, spent an hour learning how to sew and dove in!
I can't believe it actually worked! While some of my sewing is a bit off, it's a bit oversized and there are some glitches in the final result, I am in love.
Is that so wrong?
But I just had to get out there and scream at the wind. Thankfully, the only thing that happened was that EVERYTHING down below ended up on the floor. I was lucky, any number of things could have happened; missing cotter pins, faulty through hull hose fittings, loose shrouds, etc. It won't happen again. :naughty:
I did lose the cover to my pedestal though. It was old, ratty and was brown sunbrella fabric, while the new main sail cover is burgundy....perhaps I purposely lost in by accident? :Liar:
So I decided to make a new one. Never sewed, don't know a button hook from a button hole. I happened to find a snippet of a video on YouTube from Sailrite on how to make a pedestal cover. It couldn't GET an easier!!!!
I spent about $60 on fabric, needles, zippers, the whole video instruction, thread, a soap pen (gotta have a soap pen!) and took some 6mil plastic sheeting down to the boat and made a pattern.
I then borrowed my sister-in-law's cheap ass Singer sewing machine, spent an hour learning how to sew and dove in!
I can't believe it actually worked! While some of my sewing is a bit off, it's a bit oversized and there are some glitches in the final result, I am in love.
Is that so wrong?
