Loft Report 12/22/04

This short week we cut and partially assembled some Sabre 34 sails for our partner loft in Vermont.  We've been finishing up our giant Cryin' Lion spinnaker inlay (which got delayed while we looked for an ink that was more compatible with the fabric we were using). 

We have been building a Maxx laminate J/30 blade, a Hunter 31 main, and 8 turnabout mainsails for a Maine yacht club junior program.  The program director for that club is known to us as a competitive J/24 and Melges 24 sailor and he is demanding that these be pretty hotted up Turnabout sails.  I grew up sailing Turnabouts, and I know that the juniors sailing them can be every bit as much into hot sails as the twenty something wannabe sailing rock stars.

We have also been learning a thing or two about air-freighting cargo in the post 9/11 world.  Turns out one can't ship cargo on passenger planes unless one is a "known" shipper, which means someone who with established bona fides themselves checks you out and gives you a clean bill of health.  Since only passenger carriers carry air freight to Micronesia, we need to become "known" in order to get a recently completed sail to our customer in the South Pacific.