The foot of our sail cover falls to pieces and, since they have to be custom made, we decide we can do it ourselves with only a domestic sewing machine, a sailor's palm and ultra-violent thread.

And yes... that IS ultra-violent :-) :-)

http://www.saltylass.co.uk/sail-cover...

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yep this is Gaynor with her ninja torch

this is our say the foot cover machine

see it's definitely in a bit of a sorry

state this is my pedestal cover and it's

a steep these that will make to be

honest but does have some things I

really annoys me is the bottom in the

fact that it is like that so I all sort

that's all it's not Seymour fixed a

simple fix for what the heck it's all

I've done with my binnacle cover is I've

taken a couple of inches off the bottom

and now as you can see when it's on it

doesn't actually hit the floor so it

just won't get all wet and manky as much

as it did so that's all I've done with

binnacle cover to sort that out this is

our say at the foot cover machine see

it's definitely in a bit of a sorry

state definitely past its base so this

is my next sewing project but could but

because this one is so wrecked

I think it's use this for a pattern and

start from scratch

this is our sail cover stretched out and

as you can see I have got holes

everywhere what's happened with this

cell cover is this is the manufacturers

sail cover the dark blue but because it

was too small the previous owners added

these little bit

and as you can see whatever fabric they

were using for the additional bits just

wasn't up to scratch the manufacturers

sale cover it's just a couple of rips

really but what we're going to do with

this is I'm going to use this as a

template and create our new sail cover

big project for me but it will put me in

good stead for more projects on the boat

later well I've made my first cut into

my fabric and I have to tell you it was

quite scary considering it's simple but

when you buy in fabric to start in a

project can sometimes be the hardest

part but I've got the fabric and now

I've got to do a little bit more cutting

and then I'm gonna do the first sea

this is ultraviolent violet this is

ultraviolet this is UV resistant thread

and the the smallest quantity I could

get it in was a 100 meters so what I'm

having to do is thread my bobbins it's a

different design we're doing to the one

wood but on all I've done is I've

created it's like a zip and this is

where our lazy Jack's are going to go

through but I'm actually just going to

cut it with a hot knife so there it will

be nice straight edge down here and

Malaysia ducks will come through that

and then I'll put a flap over the top of

that so that it will just keep

everything together so we've got the

metal ruler now we don't have we've not

invested in a hot knife so we're using a

knife a Stanley blade that's been rather

heated which has been heated here yes

yes look at that seam look how nice and

neat that is this is my new cover for

the top cover what I've got isn't a lot

simpler design I kind of like me to a

zip stitch here

but I've sealed the ends and what I'm

going to do there is we're going to

produce a flap to go over that and then

I've where is the old design had a

collar

I'm not even going to put a collar on

we're just going to put it straight like

that so it's meant that I've basically

made out of two pieces of fabric which

means it's a lot simpler and the only

thing I've got to do is put a flap here

and I've also got a flap on the inside

just to cover and there's roots and

stuff but that's going to come down and

I've got to put the collar a bit lower

when you're using when you're having to

hand sew the palm is your number one

friend I'm even having to use players

it's that hard to get this stuff through

so I've got the pliers and then I put my

needle in and then I have to use the

palm to push it through and this is why

my sewing machine just couldn't hack the

job really

but the palm you have to have one of

these to doing any canvas work at all

and you can tell that I'm not very good

at using it cuz I love all those little

holes

yep this is Gaynor with her ninja torch

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