Bristol-Blue Lake Michigan Sailing Adventures

Genoa Sleeve Cover Repair This season sail cleaning and canvas repairs are the order of business. A few years back I sewed this Sailrite Sleeve for my foresails and I really like it a lot. It might not be as convenient as a roller furler with a UV guard on the leach of the sail but I can get a better sail shape when underway and think that it is totally worth the extra work of putting the sleeve up and down. Mid-season one of my webbings broke free of its stitching at the time it was not a bit deal but I decided now that the cover is off for the year and home for the winter it would be a good time to do a little repair job. I grabbed out a few tools and got down to it.  The hardest part of this job was finding the end of my thread. Stuffed in a box for the last year it was a bit tangled up.  Once that was done I used my speed stitcher to sew the webbing back on. Note I'm really not great with this tool but at this point, I really want to get better so instead of going back into the

  Market Place Score!  I picked this up a few weeks ago. An Asymmetric Spinnaker nice and yellow to match Woodstock's hull. I'm excited to fit this to the rig this Spring. While I already have one Asym this one is shaped a little differently and I'm hoping it will allow me to point a bit higher on those light-wind days. I might even need to run a second halyard up to that masthead and see if I can fly both of them at the same time LOL or do on-the-fly swaps. Regardless this is the season for bargain hunting. I've been lucky enough to pick this up as well as a bag of hardware so far this year.