The materials that sails are made out of is quite tough, and the typical sewing machine cannot punch through the material. In comes the industrial grade heavy fabric sewing machine ... the Sailrite sewing machine. This bad boy can not only go through sail material like it hot butter, but can be operated without an electrical power source!
Val's dad has offered to buy this for us. Thanks Dad! It is his gift to our big adventure.
Our first sail project will be a dozie... Val will sew a new main sail for us. The one we have on the boat today is the original one and it is in good shape, but it is 19 years old! Time to make a new one and use the old one as a spare.
Val has demonstrated the sewing skill, and she will now have a machine that can punch through not only sails, but blue jean material too. Maybe it is time to make a custom fitted pair of blue jeans! :)
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Congrats on setting out on such a huge adventure - I would definitely like to hear the details of your expenses and income for the trip~! Glad to see you will be posting it all here:)
ReplyDelete@MoneyEnergy: Thank you! It is very exciting for us, and we will continue to share the details as we make this go from dream to reality.
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