Restoring Rosalind, Episode 25: In Which We Visit A Traditional Sailmaker
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Dayle Tognoni Ward is a tallship sailor and sail builder in Appleton, Maine. In this episode, spend some time in her very special sail loft, learn how she researches esoteric rigs, and check out the special tools of the trade.
Rosalind, a vernacular working sailboat built in St. Ives by William Paynter, has had a long and well traveled life. She's being rebuilt in Mystic, Connecticut by Andrew Guest, a boatbuilder and restorer who had already been thinking about building a lugger when he found this one destined for the chainsaw in Oxford, Maryland. Subscribe to this channel to follow and support her extensive restoration.
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Love this episode of working with the cloth - right up my alley!
That sail material looks so much nicer to handle than stiff Dacron etc. And it looks so much better too!
Beautiful work! It's satisfying to watch an artisan do their thing. Thanks for sharing. From UK.
Great video Andrew,exciting getting to see the design and the work going into the sails🙂
Nice episode
Sprit sails are reduced by a set of brails, like a thwarted curtain. Edgar j march probably has some information about that in his inshore craft books relating to the Thames sailing barge. The reefing points in those spreet sails are nearly used to ‘create a window’ as the door it so low you have to literally lie dow on the deck to see under them when fully set. They have no use in reducing sail in regards to depowering the rig. The example of the teeing point you show in the style of the Vaasa is still used by traditional sail makers in the east coast of the uk. We also use the same smooth pliers. But they can be bought readily from jewlry makers, advertised as ‘duck billed pliers’
Interesting video Andrew are you keeping to the St Ives traditional Lugger Rig similar to Ebenezer and the Jumbo's - Phil Cornwall
The reefs are interesting. One might think it's either because the range of winds they ventured out in was fairly narrow, or anyway simply when it wasn't blowing too hard. Or there are enough different sails to be raised or doused that they reduced sail that way when needed? It's sure that on the wind, the more you reef, the less efficient the sail gets going to windward, so better one sail reefed a bit, than two smaller ones reefed heavily.
Loved the toothless pliers - I wince seeing people pulling needles through with hard steel faces that are basically like files... You know it's chewing up the needles.
In a working boat like a fishing boat it would for sure be more about control than speed, so much of our current knowledge is about speed around the buoys. Also with the canvas and cordage of early times consider the effort to reef a sail that size by that much first reef maybe but beyond that its tons of canvas and water and wind on a heaving deck, easier to drop a sail particularly on a Ketch or yawl rig. We do that with modern sails and reefing systems. They are interesting for sure.
@@TheBeaker59 Yes, control. Much commercial sail fishing technique depends on the boat maintaining a certain speed for handling the gear, maximizing the catch, etc. Also I can see it being handy for speed also - enabling the skipper to carry the maximum sail he could for maximum speed to get to market, fine tuning the reefing.
I really wanted to know what she was pulling the needle with! that's where my fingers always get raw first, thanks for the clip at the end!
Was she dressing the thread with beeswax? 🇨🇦
It looked like a tarred beeswax to me. I’ll ask about it! -Anne
I was wondering the same thing!
Unobtanium is real. It's at the opposite side of the spectrum from Chineseium.
I will say that I regret the sailmaker’s attitude about maintaining secrets about the shaping of traditional sails, which she gives “a nod and a wink,” but tells us, just minutes later, how she, herself, relies on information that has been gathered from “old timers” and published in books, the covers of which you showed us. If the knowledge that she is guarding is lost, never recorded and shared, how will anyone carry on, in the future?
P.S. The book “Sailing Drifters” is available from online used booksellers. I have had good experiences using ABEbooks to connect with used book sellers from around the world.
Good question. What isn’t said is that years of practical experience at sea and working in other sail lofts, both of which she has done, lend her the experience to inform her decision making with regard to sail shape.
This could collectively be thought of as the act of preservation itself; the practice of immersing oneself in a trade is something no book or video can ever do for the layman. The key to this preservation of skills is found among the young people now sailing around somewhere, maybe one or two will stick around long enough to find work in a sail loft. Ever thus has it been.
@@christophernoto Correct! I got a copy that way,(from America I think) a year or two back, it was reprinted a
few times and the book is a goldmine of information.