Re: [bolger] mizzen and stuff

Gregg,
I think you have an amazingly great idea there. I'm forever grateful to you
for helping me dabble in the previously mysterious art of boat design, and to
extend that into the fun of sail design ("real" sails and not just poly tarp
and tape creations) would be even better.
As in boats I've discovered that as quick and easy as a poly sail is, the
bulk of the investment of course is the labor. If the dacron investment could
be kept reasonable, I don't know of anyone who has made a couple of poly tarps
(and watched them gradually [rapidly?] deteriorate) who wouldn't prefer to have
a real dacron sail for their labors.
So I don't know what you need from us to encourage this project, but let us
know and we'll send it along.
Thanks again.
David
(who just put a primer coat on his "half sheet skiff.")

GHC wrote:

> David,
>
> I've been dabbling with the idea of keeping some general-purpose Dacrons on
> hand and plotting or cutting from the sail shareware. That way, we could
> all become sailmakers and sail designers.
>
> I would probably also want to keep some UV thread, grommets, etc. on hand.
> Eventually, we would probably develop a web page with designs (shapes)
> cataloged for downloading/reference.
>
> Not to start another war, but I toyed around with the idea for a while with
> the cheap tarps, etc. but convinved myself that even the lowest form of
> Dacron is far superior in sailing performance. I even built a tension
> tester and found all the plastic stuff 3 times stretchier. However, having
> easy access to a program and a plotter/cutter would even make these lots
> better.
>
> I do need to research the prices though but I don't think it needs to be
> that expensive.
>
> Gregg Carlson
>
> At 11:03 AM 8/15/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >Richard-
> > Congrats on your new sail.
> >Gregg, I'd definitely be interested in having some sail patterns made.
> >Let me know what it might cost either right on dacron, or on mylar or
> >some other pattern like stuff. I bet a bunch of us sail making dabblers
> >might be interested.
> >Thanks,
> >David
> >
> >Richard Spelling wrote:
> >
> >> Have a new mizzen on Entropy, with pictures! The mizzen was designed,
> >> with some pointers from our moderator, on the Sailcut freeware. Gregg
> >> Carlson then graciously traced the pattern out on some scrap dacron
> >> with one of his machines. I cut it out with an x-acto knife, a little
> >> sewing, and presto, new sail! Gregg is thinking about offering the
> >> service to fellow boat builders, so if you would like to design your
> >> own sail, and have the panels traced out on your dacron, give him a
> >> holler.http://www.webzone.net/spelling/entropy8.html
>
>
>
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> - no cursing
> - stay on topic
> - use punctuation
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David,

I've been dabbling with the idea of keeping some general-purpose Dacrons on
hand and plotting or cutting from the sail shareware. That way, we could
all become sailmakers and sail designers.

I would probably also want to keep some UV thread, grommets, etc. on hand.
Eventually, we would probably develop a web page with designs (shapes)
cataloged for downloading/reference.

Not to start another war, but I toyed around with the idea for a while with
the cheap tarps, etc. but convinved myself that even the lowest form of
Dacron is far superior in sailing performance. I even built a tension
tester and found all the plastic stuff 3 times stretchier. However, having
easy access to a program and a plotter/cutter would even make these lots
better.

I do need to research the prices though but I don't think it needs to be
that expensive.

Gregg Carlson

At 11:03 AM 8/15/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>Richard-
> Congrats on your new sail.
>Gregg, I'd definitely be interested in having some sail patterns made.
>Let me know what it might cost either right on dacron, or on mylar or
>some other pattern like stuff. I bet a bunch of us sail making dabblers
>might be interested.
>Thanks,
>David
>
>Richard Spelling wrote:
>
>> Have a new mizzen on Entropy, with pictures! The mizzen was designed,
>> with some pointers from our moderator, on the Sailcut freeware. Gregg
>> Carlson then graciously traced the pattern out on some scrap dacron
>> with one of his machines. I cut it out with an x-acto knife, a little
>> sewing, and presto, new sail! Gregg is thinking about offering the
>> service to fellow boat builders, so if you would like to design your
>> own sail, and have the panels traced out on your dacron, give him a
>> holler.http://www.webzone.net/spelling/entropy8.html

Richard-
Congrats on your new sail.
Gregg, I'd definitely be interested in having some sail patterns made.
Let me know what it might cost either right on dacron, or on mylar or
some other pattern like stuff. I bet a bunch of us sail making dabblers
might be interested.
Thanks,
David

Richard Spelling wrote:

> Have a new mizzen on Entropy, with pictures! The mizzen was designed,
> with some pointers from our moderator, on the Sailcut freeware. Gregg
> Carlson then graciously traced the pattern out on some scrap dacron
> with one of his machines. I cut it out with an x-acto knife, a little
> sewing, and presto, new sail! Gregg is thinking about offering the
> service to fellow boat builders, so if you would like to design your
> own sail, and have the panels traced out on your dacron, give him a
> holler.http://www.webzone.net/spelling/entropy8.html
>
>
> Bolger rules!!!
> - no cursing
> - stay on topic
> - use punctuation
> - add your comments at the TOP and SIGN your posts
> - add some content: send "thanks!" and "ditto!" posts off-list.