Building a New Sail Cover
Santa Clause was good to Woodstock this year. He brought me a new Sail Rite mainsail cover kit and some luff tape for a roller furler conversion. After some debating back and forth on whether or not to just order the fabric, parts, and pieces I decided to go with the kit for the cover. First I thought I would just make a copy of the cover I currently have but by the time I added it all up the kit was only a few dollars more and offered pre-laid out directions and patterns. The first step is to layout the material. I went with Sunbrella silver to match the bimini I installed this summer. Sail Rite marks all the lines you need to cut right out for you on the fabric. I lay a cutting board underneath so as not to mark up the floors. Then it is pretty simple to just follow the pre-laid outlines with a hot knife. My hot knife is not a $150 specialty tool. It is a harbor freight job that doubles as a wood burner. It does a really ni...