Like this:

This crazy, hair-brained, fly by the seat of your pants scheme just might work. I cut out the jibsail after setting up the rigging and taking exact measurements with some string and tape measures. The sewing is all done with a zig-zag pattern for extra strength (you might want to consider two lines to each hem as well) and I will probably add some reinforcement around each corner before I sail her. The material was actually pretty easy to work with. I would suggest getting an upholstery thread or full polyester thread that wont break down in outdoors conditions… but other than that all the sewing was done on good old mom’s sewing machine.

Here’s the eye-candy:

As you can see my homemade furler works just fine (its some thick dowel with a plywood circle for the bottom and a piece of scrap steel with two holes bolted to the top).

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