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Step 8Finish Work
Metal hardware could be used. I made most of mine with twine, thread and rope, except for the brail eyelet-I cheated and just punched a brass grommet on.
The clew, tack, and throat all have cringles. The luff and brail eyelets are small grommets sewn onto the sail. See the illustrations for making a penny-sized grommets out of twine, and for making cringles with one strand of your manila rope.
The becket, or loop, for the sprit can be reinforced by covering it with leather. Take a small strip just long enough to go around the inside of the loop and not quite wide ehough to wrap around the rope and cut two semicircles out of the middle, leaving about 1/4 inch in the middle. Then punch holes along the edges to ease sewing it on, a sewing awl helps here. Knot the thread and start sewing.
The clew, tack, and throat all have cringles. The luff and brail eyelets are small grommets sewn onto the sail. See the illustrations for making a penny-sized grommets out of twine, and for making cringles with one strand of your manila rope.
The becket, or loop, for the sprit can be reinforced by covering it with leather. Take a small strip just long enough to go around the inside of the loop and not quite wide ehough to wrap around the rope and cut two semicircles out of the middle, leaving about 1/4 inch in the middle. Then punch holes along the edges to ease sewing it on, a sewing awl helps here. Knot the thread and start sewing.
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Aug 22, 2008. 4:47 AMPotroast
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Holy crap thats impressive! It makes me appreciate how much work goes into a traditional sail. I never realized how involved it was for something as simple as a sprit sail. Thanks for sharing.
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