The staysail, kindly donated by Richard F., is ready for it's next big adventure. Initially equipped with a luff tape and a head strop to be hoisted on a boat's main forestay, it had to be adapted to Auriga. As explained before, we decided to have hanked-on headsails throughout. Further, the luff extended with the strop was too long for our inner forestay. Thus, we had to shorten it while keeping the full-strength eye for attaching the halyard, and insert stainless grommets and hanks along the length of the luff. While Matt was preparing for his viva, I made best use of Richard B.'s living room to work on the staysail, as well as to finish stitching on the remaining jibs. |
| Head strop for longer luff foil |
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| Unpicking layers of tape |
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| Adding the leather chafe patch |
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| Chafe patch on the inside tape layer |
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| Finished eye - three layers of tape, extendind down the head to spread the loads |
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| Twin hanks near the head - other hanks are 60cm apart |
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