Well, That's Done!!

SHIP'S LOG:

     Pounding in a new Head grommet, stitching in two head webbing pieces and then rolling up the bastard and stuffing it into a sail bag and the job was done!  All told, it took about 15 hours to do the repair on my genoa and it was a long 15 hours. It is another 15 hours to work off in the sweat shop, ie. the sail loft, but it saved beau coup bucks that is for sure. Then I had to find out if all the work corrected the furling problem.

     I went down to TYC and took the launch out to ABISHAG. It was funny being a customer rather than the driver.It took a good half hour to raise the jib in the 15 knots of wind that decided to blow this morning. One has to feed the luft tape into the foil that runs up the forestay.  The wind did not make it an easy job, but eventually, after a lot of sweating and swearing it got hoisted. Then came the real moment of truth, would it furl correctly? And it did. It was perfect. But rather than take ABISHAG out for a real test sail, shake down, it was back to the loft. More sweat-equity was required.