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Sails

13 mei 2014/in Geen categorie/door Willem van der Velde

To get the right look and feel with the atmosphere of yachting in the thirties, the details and panneling of the sailcloth should be as close as possible as it was in time of Carrina’s launch. That’s why the sailmakers are strickly briefed as follows with detailed specifications for classic sailcloth: Narrow panels, traditional corners, […]

Pre war sailings of Carrina

21 januari 2014/in classic yacht sailing/door Willem van der Velde

A quote from the daughter of the second owner, Mr. H.F. Blackborow (10/08/1895 – 24/09/1966): For the moment, as H.F. Blackborow’s only surviving daughter – living in Italy – who as a little girl spent two entire summers (I think) on Carrina, I can say that my father did not race with Carrina. He almost […]

Sails

13 mei 2014/in Geen categorie/door Willem van der Velde

Pre war sailings of Carrina

21 januari 2014/in classic yacht sailing/door Willem van der Velde

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Sails

13 mei 2014/in Geen categorie/door Willem van der Velde

To get the right look and feel with the atmosphere of yachting in the thirties, the details and panneling of the sailcloth should be as close as possible as it was in time of Carrina’s launch.

That’s why the sailmakers are strickly briefed as follows with detailed specifications for classic sailcloth:

Narrow panels, traditional corners, hand sewn rings, external cringles, hand-roping with tapered, Rat-Tail, ends, leather finishing.

Panels for classic sails are to be narrow (15” or 18” for yacht sails)

Boomed sails seams parallel to each other and square to the leach (cross cut)
Panels for (boomless) headsails shall be mitre cut (diagonal cut) with the panels commencing opposite each other at the last (or diagonal) and running outward at square angles to the foot and leech of the sail
Dacron in off white colour that duplicates the traditional Egyptian cotton (soft cream)
Sailcloth shall be as light in weight as practical; take in account the relatively low aspect ratios of traditional boomed sails.
Easy furling shall be an important criterion, as shall the ability to lie atop the boom when furled in a traditional, tapered cone
Batten pockets and reef nettle reinforcements (reef patches) shall be as inconspicuous as possible
Clew ropes should be fitted till just above the highest reef; reinforcement of the leech shall be also with small patches at the clew (the clew cringle) and at each reef cringle (cross cut Bermudian mainsail should be not provided with a tongue – diagonal headsail should have, over and next to the last or diagonal)
Clew, tack and head ropes should be tailed
Narrow tablings of sail material on luff (or stay tabling), leech and foot for reinforcement; for the Bermudian mainsail: mast widest tabling, then foot and the leach is the narrowest
Reinforcing patches shall be kept small; corner reinforcing patches on Dacron should be longer to prevent crinkles coming out of point loaded corners
UV protection: Cloth and seams/thread

Colour

Important is not to “overdo” the dyeing. A subtle cotton colour is much more desirable than one that is too yellow or has traces of green or red. In fact some bleached (former) cotton was very little difference in colour to soiled white Dacron.

Pre war sailings of Carrina

21 januari 2014/in classic yacht sailing/door Willem van der Velde

A quote from the daughter of the second owner, Mr. H.F. Blackborow (10/08/1895 – 24/09/1966):

For the moment, as H.F. Blackborow’s only surviving daughter – living in Italy – who as a little girl spent two entire summers (I think) on Carrina, I can say that my father did not race with Carrina. He almost always took the helm, but we did have a small professional crew. I can maybe fill out some information about the years between 1934 and the outbreak of war. I know my parents sailed in the Channel and the Baltic and were in Kiel harbour not long before the start of world war II. I think they also sailed as far as Casablanca and the Canaries. After the war, when Carrina came out of hiding, we sailed in the Channel from Poole in Dorset and did a lot of mackerel fishing. During a gale-force onshore wind, while we were in Portland harbour, her anchors dragged and we were almost dashed against some enormous cement constructions built in the middle of the harbour during the war for defence purposes. The naval launch that put out to help us damaged the launch and the side of the boat. As a result we were guests of the navy for several days while they put her right and spent time on board submarines, cruisers and mine sweepers!

Elizabeth Blackborow