Sewing the Tablings on the Sail

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In this next segment we're going to fold the edges along our curves and sew the foot and leach; I guess you call it tablings or fold overs, whatever you want to call it. Then we're going to go ahead and sew the left tape. On this particular sail we're going to use a snap style with webbing, kind of hank, spaced every twenty-four inches up the left. Here we're folding right on that line we drew. So, we drew both sides of that stick and the one line, the outside line was our cut line and the other line was the fold line. So, I'm folding right on that pencil line. The reason you want to fold before you sew is you'll end up with a much smoother leach. Now we are going to sew the foot and leach. I just trimmed away a little, little triangle off the leach there to make it fold a little bit nicer. We'll sew it down. The gamut will punch off most of that cut edge. So, there we finished sewing the foot and leach and we're going to go ahead and sew the left tape on. I'm using a 3 inch six ounce tape in this sail and we're going to fold it in half so the tape is going to end up an inch and a half wide. Now, during the left tape sewing I'm going to be inserting pieces of webbing every twenty-four inches down the left and those are going to be the hanks on the gin. I've already folded the left tape in half and I have marks every twenty-four inches along the left of the sail. That's where we're going to put our webbing in for the hanks. I've double up the webbing in the head and so we're going to start and start sewing. I do a little back tack here at the head. We haven't back tacked anything else in the sail yet. Tack it down. The key is to push the sail into the crease of the tape. We're using a three inch left tape and so for these hanks to provide a little bit of room for the wire I've cut the webbing loops to be four inches long. So they will wrap quite neatly around the wire running right up next to the left tape. As I get to each of the marks I'll sew the webbing loops in. I'm not back tacking these pieces of webbing at all, because we're going to be pressing a snap through the piece of webbing so it'll be plenty strong. The way to sew this well is kind of in eight to ten inch bites, if you will. I'll line everything up really well, hold it in place with my hands and sew it. I plant the needle at the end of each time. So, that's all the sewing that needs to be done on the sail.

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