tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post3354453966317719270..comments2024-03-10T07:03:43.915-04:00Comments on The Log of Spartina: off season work, new sailsStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-70282468019771671502012-12-11T15:51:09.804-05:002012-12-11T15:51:09.804-05:00Presentation is not my strongest suit in the food ...Presentation is not my strongest suit in the food business. But sometimes dinner comes out tasting pretty good!<br /><br />steveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-62081844850880614192012-12-11T15:03:10.987-05:002012-12-11T15:03:10.987-05:00Oh man, you are not kidding about the food...I enj...Oh man, you are not kidding about the food...I enjoy your recipes & pictures of food as much as the sailing stuff. <br /><br />I usually snap a picture of the meal I've prepared when the wife isn't home..sometimes scrolling back thru the pictures reminds me of the visual when you walk into a chinese takeout place.:)Shawn Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267912099299761613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-21719623230116255892012-12-06T07:30:47.974-05:002012-12-06T07:30:47.974-05:00Shawn,
I consider this blog a celebration of sail...Shawn,<br /><br />I consider this blog a celebration of sailing, food, books, bad grammar and typos. Thanks for contributing!<br /><br />I do appreciate your comments. I'm really pleased the way Stuart at Dabbler is going about making the new sails. He has asked me for a lot of detailed information about the rigging, stays, goosenecks, etc. I'll do a post about that soon.<br /><br />steveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-65589197275559533822012-12-05T22:39:28.470-05:002012-12-05T22:39:28.470-05:00And I still had typos in the 2nd post..I couldn...And I still had typos in the 2nd post..I couldn't even spell your boat name correctly...Sorry for that oversight.<br />-ShawnShawn Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267912099299761613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-40024972199805831722012-12-05T21:31:10.654-05:002012-12-05T21:31:10.654-05:00Steve,
New sails will give Spatina new life!! Cong...Steve,<br />New sails will give Spatina new life!! Congrats.<br /><br />One suggestion I have from a guy that has sailed Lasers forever & worked in a sail loft in a former life..I've seen lots of pictures of your boat/rig/sails and this blog post is the appropriate spot to comment on this.<br /><br />I'd recommend lashing down the mainsail (& mizzen) clew eye to the boom directly, in addition to the outhaul control you have on it already. It 'marries' the boom to the clew and provides greater control over sail shape if/when you adjust the outhaul...this way the clew isn't 'floating' over the boom. On Lasers, they now even have a class legal 'sleeve' that slides along the boom with the clew eye thru a pin. <br /><br />However, for years and years a velcro strap or spectra strop (1/8" wrapped two or three times around) worked well on Lasers. The spectra strop might be better suited to keep with the traditional look of your beautiful vessel. You could spray some McLube or similar dry teflon on the spar to help.<br /><br />sorry about the first post. Deleted due to lots of typos.<br />Regards,<br />ShawnShawn Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267912099299761613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-83411850822044708142012-12-05T21:20:50.018-05:002012-12-05T21:20:50.018-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Shawn Stanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267912099299761613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-60792442461720430242012-12-05T06:11:04.958-05:002012-12-05T06:11:04.958-05:00Jim
got my order in last week, set for an early s...Jim<br /><br />got my order in last week, set for an early spring delivery. Congrats on the Pelican build and Wooden Boat piece.<br /><br />steveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-70827517635234445772012-12-04T21:14:35.122-05:002012-12-04T21:14:35.122-05:00Steve, get your deposit in asap. Stuart gets book...Steve, get your deposit in asap. Stuart gets booked up fast. Next WoodenBoat has my Pelican build with a comment on Stuart who make the sails. He should get a bump from that too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-75679977889690413722012-12-02T16:18:06.019-05:002012-12-02T16:18:06.019-05:00Jim,
I don't know enough about sail plans, ce...Jim,<br /><br />I don't know enough about sail plans, center of effort, center of lateral resistance, etc to be able to answer that question. Might be a good question for John W.<br /><br />steveStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060896232365651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-35548466918928441252012-12-01T18:19:50.829-05:002012-12-01T18:19:50.829-05:00I've played with the idea of moving the bowspr...I've played with the idea of moving the bowsprit forward a tad and adding a jib boom. <br />Any thoughts on that idea?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-30891037875746514162012-12-01T17:57:13.972-05:002012-12-01T17:57:13.972-05:00She deserves a great new set of sails after all th...She deserves a great new set of sails after all those miles. My Annie has the European-style tanbark... very dark. I have a friend in Bradenton, Florida that sports cream colored on his Penobscot. They are beautiful. There is nothing quite like crisp new sails.<br />On ketchup... reminds me when I was a kid and we would soak old pennies in Texas Pete hot sauce to make them look new. Fun but no practical use.Curthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968817338049706387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-35595937504521178362012-12-01T15:32:45.348-05:002012-12-01T15:32:45.348-05:00She'd look absolutely stellar with tanbark sai...She'd look absolutely stellar with tanbark sails!<br /><br />If those sails are considered "tired" after 7 seasons, my head sail is downright zombified. It definitely is time to get a new one... maybe next year. Or the year after that...Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14950317902951463280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5137810012036013226.post-71805627824648082972012-11-30T20:55:24.522-05:002012-11-30T20:55:24.522-05:00Glad to hear Dabbler will be the tailor for your n...Glad to hear Dabbler will be the tailor for your new suit. He does great work, and he's much harder to please than I am. Kevin's rig, a very tricky one to make sails for, looks and performs really well, too. I'm sure you'll be pleased.EyeInHandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673778556242947205noreply@blogger.com