The Sail

step 1: Putting the plan and the moulds together

step 2: Cutting the sail, Mylar, Dacron and the fortification for the nose

step 3: Putting together and glueing the sail parts

step 4: Sewing the two halves of the sail

step 5: Glueing the two halves (at the spine)

step 6: Glueing the fortification for the stand-offs

step 7: Glueing Mylar or Ripstop as fortification

step 8: Sewing the fortification for the spine and stand-offs

step 9: Glueing and sewing of the fortification for the upper spreader

step 10: Glueing and sewing the Ripstop for the “trailing edges”

step 11: Glueing of the nose bag

step 12: Sewing of the spine tunnel

step 13: Glueing and sewing of the fortification for the central-T

step 14: Glueing of the leading edges

step 15: Marking the leading edges and the nosebag

step 16: Sewing of the leading edges and the nosebag

step 17: Inserting the leechline

step 18: Glueing and sewing of the fortification of the nose

step 19: Cutting out the space for the yoyo stoppers

step 20: The holes for tensioning the leading edges and placing the stand-offs

Step 12: Sewing of the spine tunnel

The spine tunnel is the piece of Velcro that is sewn to the back of the kite to connect the spine at the bottom part of the sail

1. Put the sail with the back side up and the tail close to you.

2. Cut some Velcro from the hard side of 40mm long en 25mm wide.

3. Fix the piece of Velcro just above the trailing edge on the Mylar/Rip stop that strengthens the spine. Use paper tape to do this.

Watch Out: Make sure the tape is not wider than 19 mm, so you have room to sew next to the tape.

4. Sew the Velcro with a straight seam at about 1 mm from the border. At the start and at the end you sew 3 steps forward and 3 steps backwards.