I am attempting sails for the first time so my learning curve is steep.
I am building the Black Pearl and I am up to the rigging. The 4 main sails provided with the kit where pegged to the yards to see how they looked and I considered them to be to long. The bottom of the sails hit the deck and the other ones went well passed the yards.
As I only want to sew the sails once I made up some paper sails to get the size right. I have trimmed up to 15mm from the bottom of the sails.
The question I have is how long are the sails ment to be in relation to the yards or deck beneath them, should they be above, below or touching?
The sizes on the drawings do not look correct.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Tony
I am building the Black Pearl and I am up to the rigging. The 4 main sails provided with the kit where pegged to the yards to see how they looked and I considered them to be to long. The bottom of the sails hit the deck and the other ones went well passed the yards.
As I only want to sew the sails once I made up some paper sails to get the size right. I have trimmed up to 15mm from the bottom of the sails.
The question I have is how long are the sails ment to be in relation to the yards or deck beneath them, should they be above, below or touching?
The sizes on the drawings do not look correct.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
Tony