Jibs are ready for hanks

I took Furthur's current jib inventory to the Sail Technologies loft in St. Petersburg today and punched grommets in all the luffs. This will allow me to install hanks on the jibs to attach them to forestay, because the old headfoil fell apart and hanks are better for double-handed sailing. Tom Barry was nice enough to let me use part of the loft floor, their grommets and tools. In return, I will either make him some soft hanks or take photos for the sail loft.

The jib inventory laid on top of each other in the loft. From largest to smallest (left to right): #1 (150%), #2 (125%) #3 (95%), #4 (80%) and storm jib.

After laying out the jibs, I measured each luff and marked it every 2 feet to hole punch and grommet.

Lining up the hole punch.

Grommets installed in all the jibs.

Cody came to the loft after his class, bringing sun chips and Arizona Green Tea. We used a hot knife to cleanly remove some of the now unnecessary luff tape. The next project is to make about 70 soft hanks out of 3/16" spectra.