May 6th

Today, We arrived at the sail loft at 8 a.m. and finished what we began yesterday. I finished sewing the sail tape to the edges of the flags. When I had finished that Ben taught me how to put grommets into the flags, I put two grommets in each flag and then used wire ties to attach them to pieces of pipe. This took Trilbey and I up until lunch. After lunch outside Trilbey and I took a look at some old sails from Community Boating in New Bedford. I had a jib from a small boat called a Capri. The window in the jib had a rip in it so I had to replace it. Ben taught me how to put down double sided tape and then cut and sew the new window. Once I had done that I sewed the edge of the sail called the leach, to make it stronger. Once I had repaired the sail I moved onto the jib sheets. I whipped and burned the ends so that they won’t fray. It was great to work on sails. Tomorrow we are going to continue repairing sails