Mike did a pretty good job of getting a flat hem on his HS nylon cockpit cover.

I've never been a very big fan of nylon sprayskirts--even the good ones still leak--and I use a neoprene skirt, even in the summer time.

Shawn

: I've been trying to make a sprayskirt using this material and am having
: trouble getting the curves to seal well enough.

: When you are sewing the curvature where the tunnel meets the spray deck you
: can cut darts or just sew over the bumps or bunches in the fabric where
: you are talking it into curving where it doesn't want to but when using
: the iron on the heat seal I've been getting small folds that end up
: leaking water thru.

: It may be good enough for a non-rolling skirt but wasn't really good enough
: in my opinion for a rolling skirt.

: Shawn, do you have any tricks for getting the heat seal to do the corners
: well?

: The heat seal seems to need to be laying very flat to seal well, no problem
: for drybags etc. but trouble for curves required for skirts.

: Ben Staley

: Hi Dave,