S/Y Linnea

Today the bamboo for the battens finally arrived. But they are too thin. Obviously there was some misunderstanding in how to measure the diameter.
So we got 26 canes. 5,4 meters long. (That means about a third of the batten will be overlapped and seized in the middle.) At the thick end they were 40-45 mm […]

A longsplice by my father in the bolt rope finished the sail. Now it is just the battens…

My mother can rope a sail at 2 meters/hour. Look!
This corner is nine layers of 11 American oz Top Gun polyester cloth. Roping really adds a nice look to a junk sail. Some people like to save time by sewing on webbing or just reinforce with a rolled tabling.

Great progress today. Most of the grommets in the sail are done (only one batten left) and we shaped a tree into a yard.
A picture of my try at double spar taper by eye ball:

It is supposed to be thinner at the ends and fat at the middle. And it is also supposed to have […]

Some things they say about the junk rig are true. It has a great appetite for line. I live in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm, a city of about one million people and one million boats. And the chandlers didn’t have enough line in stock and had to order it.
So how much line do you […]

No, don’t read the headline as proof of my love for alliterations. We just ordered three gross of #3 spur grommets. I like to think that the sail is finished. But as you can see, I am an optimist when it comes to adding the last touch. Like three gross of grommets. Hopefully attaching them […]

Now we try to cut back on things that are not really needed to do trial sails. And we try to find stuff that really needs to be finished before we can sail. So the sail itself has quite high priorities. So after giving the mast some more Owatrol we brought out the sail to […]