We have a new genoa and main sail on order and they should arrive on Wednesday. These are being made for us by one of the premiere sailmakers in the UK, but banded with our own Malu Marine brand. These will be the first of the new brand sails so we are really looking forward to seeing them.
The old genoa was not too bad, but had an 8mm bolt rope and the new Furlex needs a 4mm bolt rope. So there were two options: 1. Send it to the UK and get them to change the bolt rope 2. Do it ourselves. We opted for #2. Yesterday evening Tim was up till midnight unpicking the bolt rope and then this morning I joined him. So by lunchtime it was unpicked. It was a phenomenal amount of work. I calculated that we (and Tim did most of it) unpicked between 5,000 and 8,000 stitches.
After lunch we attached the new bolt rope and pulled it through and then using our trusty hand sewing machine re-sewed the new bolt rope in place. Next weekend will be sail weekend. We'll check the new bolt rope on the genoa fits and then take King Malu out for a sail with the new Malu Marine sails. Let's hope the weather is good... it's been pretty awful recently and we're due for another storm this week.
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