On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:32:37 -0400, DSK wrote:

Detail work like that, found at the
headboard especially (because it's out of sight most of the time), is
hard to imitate and is most likely to be found on a good sail.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Now you know why I scavenge and salvage older sails. You can develop
an eye for which ones were overbuilt and carefully finished in the
first place and take them to a loft for evaluation. I have a couple of
genoas in remarkably good shape that needed $100 of work and will
serve me for four to six seasons of Lake Ontario cruising.

And as I go out in heavy Lake weather (which can get hairy as ocean
sailing, if for far shorter periods of time), I don't have a problem
"inheriting" a decent, if dirty, ocean-cut sail. Sails are easy to
clean, but a lot of people are richer than that G

R.