Wednesday 6 March 2013

New Sails

Our Millwrights are busy making new sails at their yard in Alford, Lincolnshire. (Click on a photo for larger version. Photos by the millwrights.)

Neil Medcalf fabricating striking gear
Neil cutting rules (shutter bars)
Neil marking out the laminated whips for the first new pair of sails.
Steve Boulton planing shutter bars
Steve morticing the whips

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