hi my name is Doug and behind me a sailing vessel seeker sailing vessel she
has three big Chinese junk rig fails to go on her and in this video we're gonna
be sewing the rope on to the side of that sail it's a hand stitch method this
is the video that I would love to seen before starting this process so hope it
helps somebody out there that's building a big sail
step one is measure the perimeter of the sail and cut a piece of rope long enough
to go all the way around a three strand braided Dacron rope when I get a big one
full of that
that's good now that off
yeah I did the trick all right again glad yeah oh well you
got it tight now come on back so we're trying to do is stretch it until it
stops unrolling because the thought is when the sail has its weight on it you
don't want it to twist the edge of the canvas
they didn't turn nearly as much to did the first time back up I only saw it do
a quarter turn so the next thing we do is we put a mark right down the top of
the rope that will even get a shot we know if we accidentally put a twist back
in it so we'll sew right this mark to this edge of the sail so
all we do is we take you know the coral the rope that's closest to the sill gets
the thread running around it so there it is
roping the sail which means sewing a rope to the edge of the sail now the
reason you do this is structural so when the sail is hanging a lot of the support
for the sail is in this rope that runs up the sides and across the top and
bottom too but much less so mainly the edges of the sail where the sides are
you think about it it's just a bunch of battens and the cloth can hold the rest
of the sail up but if you run a long strong rope down the edge that is a
fantastic support member the Dragon Herald one of my favorite votes has a
bail ropes owed to their sail their sail of silver but this massive rope goes
down the side of it gives it the strength
our sale will top in it Oh easily it's 240 pounds now with just the cloth and
when we add the battens I'm sure it'll go over about it hit about 320 pounds
something like that and of course you loaded up with wind even got more stress
but so there's up through the sailcloth there's over and down through the strand
of rope that he wants to pinch to the sailcloth right there now the needle
comes back under that first stitch and that kind of locks it off goes down
pulls the tight finds the next coil of rope that touches the sail it starts it
all over now at this point he's going to get creative and he's gonna tie a knot
in this this last loop so that all he stitched is this one foot of sail that
way of this thread breaks in here we only lose one foot of it we can bring
the sail down and repair it there's only about a hundred and twenty feet in this
sail and a hundred and forty feet in the big one Johnny needs to be done by like
four cloggers on there right this gadget here is called a palm and this is how
you wear it and what it does it gives you a place to put the I end of the
needle and push it through the sail cloth the other trick that we do here
often is set the needle on the table and push the cloth down over the needle
let's see you can really crank it forward like that wonderful tool and
it's not a bad idea to have some small pliers around either you can grab onto
the needle and pull it up through there because gripping these things it's
harder to do
she's doing better than you the tiger of a this is Peter story back in town for
the holidays doing some sewing Betsy is hard at work prepping for sales on
amazon.com of our new product this is a challenge coin holder for Alcoholics
Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous coins we kept getting people asking if the
keychain holder for our challenge coins would fit in a a coin and done so Betsy
got in contact with the contacts in China what's her name
you know Jeremy in India yeah okay so even China sent us over a specimen we
checked it against a couple AAA coins fit beautifully a specimen a sample
well specimen sounds good gross method a bit a sample a faux fur and so if you
happen to be a AAA or na we got your keychain holder for you okay gold and
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and you need one just write us I'll throw one in the mail for you
now every once awhile the material is just way way too thick right here what's
been patched and everything so you can't drive a needle through it so the best
thing to do is heat yourself up a nail and run that down through it or just
dandy about right there's where I need the next hole then you find that with a
needle next you want to be about right there this is the best way we found for
clamping this on it pinches the rope uses the side of the table so you'll
have to come up with something but this works great it grabs both the rope and
the wall the table is about a half-inch thick so it doesn't crimp the rope too
badly but you don't want to pull unevenly and that's a cup of cloth and
the rope in this end of the table I just have a piece of angle because that gives
me a thing to wrap the rope around here and you don't want to get this too tight
but you want pretty nice and snug there
and then the angle just gives me something to pull the rope snug in and
wrap around few times and she'll stay there
then you turn your audible book on I like so resume and go back and so on now
there's lots of ways of driving the needle through you've seen this use a
palm and Betsy takes the needle puts it up on the steel table and pushes it down
like that I found out that these little pair of pliers is my favorite thing till
my hand gets those sort of doing that and I'll change something else but when
I move over there's where I want to put the hole I just move the needle in a
little bit poke up and these have a crease s in there for the cutters and so
I put the head of a needle right into that recess and then I can push with two
hands and drive the needle up between my thumbs grab it and pull it through if
need be my trick for the day yours will be different go ahead
be inventive with it I think it's really helpful though
keep pulling tension on these threads and get them as taut as you can
which that up there we go
offer me up in
well I didn't leave myself a lot of thread to tie it off with but I just do
a double wrap around there and make a square granting out a couple times tie
this off I only use five feet of thread when I'm doing this the reason for that
is I if one of them breaks it's going to unravel and I don't want it to unravel
more than you know a few feet along the edge of the sail because that's what
we're going to have to repair but tie a knot in it and start another one my
grandmother here she was really good at doing this there we go trying to make
you proud grandma we're telling basically stripes where Barbara's
it's better erosion wise and things like that so basically you're just you're
just preparing the stripe where you're gonna plant your corn at you know your
speeds whatever
well it's not rocket science it's not my prettiest splice but it is my first just
need us so that to the sale and we are done
roping the 4-cyl guys that is it alright the sewing on this thing is done
last thing to do is put all the grommets in about 300 of the person so I guess
well thanks for joining us for that and there they are I swear it surest that's
the main sell down below it still needs this rope and it's only a hundred and
forty feet of rope so if somebody wants to come by and do a little sewing there
you go