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tyvek sail?
contemplating making a sail for a small home made boat out of some leftover
Tyvek house wrap. there are instrctuions on the Internet fo rmakign this type of sail with double-sided carpet tape but can't find any follow up info on longevity, durability, or performance. any info appreciated. has anyone tried sewing a Tyvek sail on a sewing machine? is there way way of removing the advertizing? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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tyvek sail?
William R. Watt wrote:
contemplating making a sail for a small home made boat out of some leftover Tyvek house wrap. there are instrctuions on the Internet fo rmakign this type of sail with double-sided carpet tape but can't find any follow up info on longevity, durability, or performance. any info appreciated. has anyone tried sewing a Tyvek sail on a sewing machine? is there way way of removing the advertizing? Use the red "Tuc-Tape" that's used on construction sites. Sticks to anything and will give your sails that look of the side of an unfinished house. Tyvek begins showing signs of deterioration in just a few weeks of exposure to weather. It doesn't like being crunched up. May make a cheap sail, you get what you pay for. |
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tyvek sail?
Tyvek is too air permeable for use as a sail. The function of Tyvek is
to allow air to permeate THROUGH the fabric .... and thats why its a BAD choice for sail material. Its not UV protectect and will oxidize badly and degrade in the presence of sunlight. Other than when being applied to the side of a house, when was the first time that you saw exposed Tyvek on a house .... good reason that you dont as it degrades quickly when exposed to sunlight (UV). Go to www.sailrite.com and choose a lightweight & cheap dacron sailcloth material. BTW.... they also sell sail kits .... already cut, ****properly broadseamed*** .... just assemble with two sided sailmakers seam tape, sew together on a homemakers sewing machine and sail away. Approximately 1/2 or less than a 'store bought' sail (made by indentured slave-wage workers in the orient). There are a few kit sail builders on the internet. Why go to all the work of making your own boat then hoisting poorly cut / inefficient 'crap' to move her? The sails are just as important as the care that you took when making the boat. ;-) |
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tyvek sail?
You can make a sail out of plastic tarp material. The blue stuff you see
everywhere. You can sew it. Should last a season. Will deteriorate if left in the sun very long. Years back, there was an article about a guy who sailed from NE to Fla. with just such 'sails'. Scott Vernon Plowville PA __/)__/)__ "William R. Watt" wrote in message ... contemplating making a sail for a small home made boat out of some leftover Tyvek house wrap. there are instrctuions on the Internet fo rmakign this type of sail with double-sided carpet tape but can't find any follow up info on longevity, durability, or performance. any info appreciated. has anyone tried sewing a Tyvek sail on a sewing machine? is there way way of removing the advertizing? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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tyvek sail?
"Scott Vernon" :
You can make a sail out of plastic tarp material. The blue stuff you see everywhere. You can sew it. Should last a season. Will deteriorate if left in the sun very long. Years back, there was an article about a guy who sailed from NE to Fla. with just such 'sails'. Check out http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/oddsails.html Earl Colby Pottinger -- I make public email sent to me! Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets, OpenBeos, SerialTransfer 3.0, RAMDISK, BoatBuilding, DIY TabletPC. What happened to the time? http://webhome.idirect.com/~earlcp |
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tyvek sail?
thanks for the replies.
This is a replacment sail for an exsisting boat (www.ncf.ca/~ag384/DogSkiff.htm). I thought I'd try tyvek because I have some on hand. Really not interested in doing what everybody else does, ie dacron. The exsisting sail is nylon double thick with one layer aligned on the bias to eliminate stretch. Worked great. Sail is 5 years old. The tyvek is not as light as the nylon but moreso than polytarp. The air permiability could be a problem. Hadn't considered that. I have actually seen Tyvek exposed on unfinished buildings for over year. Good advertising I suppose. Print doesn't degrade. Almost all my effort is in the longer mast to try a larger sail on the boat, not in the tyvek sail itself. (First mast broke during bend test. Starting on second.) For the sail plan I used the info on sprit sails I gathered and put on my website (under Boats) for anyone insterested in making a sprit sail. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-freenet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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