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Jack Sparrow 
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 Topic: Sail MakingPosted: 24 Jul 13 at 2:11pm |
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Start by making some kites. It won't cost you much and you will learn a lot of the basic techniques.
Basic construction techniques LINK Kite Plans LINK |
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Jack Sparrow
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Posted: 25 Jul 13 at 11:47am |
Put it like this: when I was a kite maker I had 4 different machines for different jobs and materials. One was an Industrial straight stitch. So the simple answer is it depends on what you are doing. Sewing together a Spinnaker can be done on a Home machine and maybe even something like a Mirror mail sail. Sewing together a fully battened Cat sail will need an Industrial + a load of other tools for putting in Cringles etc... |
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Happilyover40
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Posted: 25 Jul 13 at 12:49pm |
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The first thing I need to do is to fix / re-enforce the luffs on 420 jibs then fix the boat cover
and finally look at a spinnaker  . |
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Jack Sparrow
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Posted: 25 Jul 13 at 2:32pm |
Jib luffs should be fine on a Domestic machine. And relatively straight forward. I recently repaired my old boat cover on my domestic, so that should be OK also. The biggest issue with your boat cover will be the physical weight of the material making it difficult to feed. Combined with the relatively small reach of the Domestic machines sewing arch. If you haven't done much machine sewing you are going to struggle with this, break needles and generally have a hard time. Don't expect it to be a pretty job. But you could do it. |
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Roger
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Posted: 25 Jul 13 at 10:29pm |
As JS has already said a jib luff can be done on a domestic, I've certainly repaired one, although when I say a domestic I do mean a very solid (all metal gears) domestic machine. Biggest problem with sewing sails and covers too for that matter is the volume of cloth you have, this will be heavy and ideally is best laid over a large table so the weight doesn't pull the material around and so you can feed the material through the machine. An alternative approach is to sew on the floor, kneeling on one leg and operating the foot pedal with the other, this requires some practice!!! PS Have you looked at all the YouTube clips out there, they can be very helpful. |
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