{"id":420,"date":"2024-02-25T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blsa.marable.us\/?p=420"},"modified":"2024-02-27T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:40:06","slug":"sew-your-own-mainsail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Sew your own Mainsail!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My “main” 2023 winter project was to order a mainsail kit from Sailrite<\/a> and build my 1980 O’Day 23-2 a new mainsail. I believe the one that came with it was the original and its quite baggy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

last year I purchased a Sailrite LSZ-1, have done a few projects but was ready to tackle the mainsail kit. The kit comes mostly complete minus a few pretty specific tools required to complete it. I purchased those also. All the Dacron is precut with printed lines showing all the seams. They send along a detailed set of instructions (printed out) and there is some fantastic YouTube videos<\/a> to watch\/re-watch, and re-watch to help insure everything is going as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hardest sewing part was once the sail started getting larger, getting the reef patches sewn since the LSZ-1 is definitely not a sail loft sized machine, rolling\/stuffing all the sail through, and around to get the patches on was quite a feet. But overall the actual main sewing went quite smooth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finishing work once all the panels are together includes installing the leech line, the bolt rope on the luff and foot of the sail, creating the holes for the tack\/clew, reef points, the header board. And of course the, I believe 12 , holes and grommets for the sail slugs that slide into the mast track. All this work was not specifically difficult but it was quite time consuming. I did have sore fingers after wrapping the tack,clew, and reef SS rings that are the grommets with waxed twin before inserting the brass sleeve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One remaining thing I would like to do, is get the O’Day emblem (big O) for the sail cut out of some adhesive Dacron that I also ordered. I’m not yet sure to get these cut out smoothly so that is TBD.<\/p>\n\n\n

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