New sail cover

[Ross]

My old sail cover was completely beyond repair. The fabric was starting to fail like the knees in an old pair of jeans. So I bought some new sunbrella on Ebay and made a new cover for less than $50.

 

[Merlin Clark]

Looks good Ross!

 

[Chris Patterson]

Wanna double your money on it?

 

[Ross]

I can tell you how to make one just as well.

 

[Chris Patterson]

Yeah, your work looks awesome Ross. I sew too, but that is very, very nice work.

(You and Sumner are KILLING me man)..

 

[Ross]

Chris, You will like the method that I used to fit it. I bought a length of fabric a couple feet longer than the boom and pinned the selveges together after I draped it over the furled sail. Then I pulled the excess fabric up until the pinned selveges were close to the boom and I then pinned the top line. When I had all of the pins in place I removed the pins at the selvege and took the fabric home with the seam line defined by the pins on top. After that it was just a matter of fairing the line and adding seam allowance. By doing it in this manner the excess fabric came off in one piece right out of the middle.