Monthly Archives: January 2014

Lee Cloths – Getting a Good Night’s Sleep

Interior Projects
Lee cloths seem like an easy project…a rectangle and some grommets right?  But wait,  how will the lee cloth really work to provide a restful spot during an overnight voyage?  Will it be strong enough and positioned to hold the person off watch as desired?  This blog post will give ideas on what to consider when planning an off watch sleeping berth and construction ideas. Magnolia inherited a set of very nice canvas lee cloths.  The corners have webbing reinforcements to strengthen them as well as heavy rings as attachment points.  There is webbing on each side edge and down the middle for some stability.  While I didn’t make these, we had to reinstall the starboard settee one after the removal of a fuel tank located under the Read more [...]

Making Courtesy Flags

Exterior Projects, Saving money,
Susie Harris offered to share her blog post on flag making.  Seamless Sailor has posted before on flags here.  Susie's post adds some additional details and tips that I thought warranted this second post on flags. Aboard Temptress of Down she is undertaking several sewing projects.  She is a self-described "craft junkie with a sailing habit".  Sounds like the perfect Seamless Sailor to me!  Thanks, Susie, for providing insight on making courtesy flags. Vexillology 12/30/2013 Minima YC Burgee - handmade by moi ...Vexillology is the study of flags and we've been studying them hard aboard Temptress for some weeks as every country expects visiting boats be they super tankers or the tiniest of yachts, to fly a courtesy Read more [...]

Mosquito Screens

Interior Projects, Projects, ,
This guest post is by Tammy Swart reprinted with permission from her blog "What We Did Today".  She is a wonderful Seamless Sailor taking on a variety of sewing projects aboard Dos Libras.  She just dives right in to design solutions on their Morgan 45 sailboat.  And she does a nice job of documenting her work.  Here she's sharing her post on keepin' the bugs out so that Seamless Sailors can benefit from her work. Thanks, Tammy!   Mosquito Screens - Check! Finished in the Aft Stateroom I really have no sewing background at all!  But somehow... give a girl a Sailrite and she'll make you... well, whatever you want!  This time, it's mosquito screens/sunshade for the overhead hatches! Hatch open - the Read more [...]