thieuster
Active Member
After a handful of Radial sails over the last two years, this was the first time I did the numbers and letters on an MKII sail. '... and now for something completely different' to paraphrase Monty Python.
It took me well over 1.5 hours to get it all correctly attached. True, I also made two templates out of MDF; one the size of the letters and the numbers and one for the spacing. So that took some time as well. When using the templates (I used the size of the red '2' as a guide), I noticed that not all digits have the same size! E.g. the red 2 and the black 2 (we need that one too somewhere in the #) aren't the same: the black one is 5 mm wider!!
The sail is brand new and comes folded. The lines where the sail was (is) folded are more stubborn than the Radial sails and need a lot of attention to get them 'flat' when you stick on the rig's numbers! The shape of the sail with its numerous panels (and seams) makes it also more difficult, especially on the lowest part where the country code is put on layers of stitching! A lot of pressing with a c/card-like piece of plastic and a thingy we use for pressing the edges of wallpaper onto the wall (dunno its name in English) did the trick.
As said, this wasn't the first sail I did. Would this have been the first one, I would have become desperate at certain moments! Add to that the 30C temps currently outside, you can imagine that it was not the easiest job this day!
Menno
It took me well over 1.5 hours to get it all correctly attached. True, I also made two templates out of MDF; one the size of the letters and the numbers and one for the spacing. So that took some time as well. When using the templates (I used the size of the red '2' as a guide), I noticed that not all digits have the same size! E.g. the red 2 and the black 2 (we need that one too somewhere in the #) aren't the same: the black one is 5 mm wider!!
The sail is brand new and comes folded. The lines where the sail was (is) folded are more stubborn than the Radial sails and need a lot of attention to get them 'flat' when you stick on the rig's numbers! The shape of the sail with its numerous panels (and seams) makes it also more difficult, especially on the lowest part where the country code is put on layers of stitching! A lot of pressing with a c/card-like piece of plastic and a thingy we use for pressing the edges of wallpaper onto the wall (dunno its name in English) did the trick.
As said, this wasn't the first sail I did. Would this have been the first one, I would have become desperate at certain moments! Add to that the 30C temps currently outside, you can imagine that it was not the easiest job this day!
Menno