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Sails

The Way They Work and How to Make Them

Derek Harvey

This book contains all the information a boatowner needs to fully understand how sails work, and how to design, make, repair and modify them. The do-it-yourself sailmaker can save as much as three-quarters of the cost of small boat sails by making them or recutting old ones, using little more than a tape measure, scissors and a simple sewing machine.

Until now, traditional rule-of-thumb methods of sail design were the only option, but here Derek Harvey shows how it can be done more easily and accurately with the aid of the computer programs available free of charge with this book. The reader will then be taken through the processes of lofting, seaming, sewing and tabling, and the hand finishing of details such as headboards, reef point, leathered corners and cringles.

188 pp. 50 line drawings, 15 halftones. 1997 1574090305 paper

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