Just fired off yet another email to Crusader Sails in what I think will be the final exchange of messages working out the optimum compromise between maximising the sail area and minimising the problems we've been having with overly large sails!
All that remains now is for me to check the final (hopefully!) quote and pay the deposit and they'll no doubt rush to it with scissors and palm and needles to make us our wonderful new sails. Or at least so I fondly hope.
I suppose the reality is that somebody will spend a couple of minutes on the computer tweaking an existing drawing to the correct dimensions. That data will then be fed into a CNC cutting machine to slice the correctly shaped panels from a roll of sailcloth and then the whole shebang will be fed through a fancy modern industrial sewing station and in no time at all out of the other end will pop a sail.
The technology may impress but it doesn't have the romance really does it?
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