oldboy

Ciao Denis.  Yes, the blocks and their riggings must stay on when you furl the sails. Do you have some documentation about furling sails?

Sorry, my bad english don't make me able to explane more...ciao. oldboy

Ciao Ken.

I do the sails with a thin cotton cloth usually  used for women's shirts ( the cotton used for men's shirts is thiker).

ciao. oldboy

Hi giga!  Fine to meet you here ! I can see you are working although the climate makes to sweat the wood. ciao. oldboy

Hi guys and thank you for your attention.

@  wefalk  and Ken: yes I know there was a change to furling sail before and after the jack-stay. The prototype show in the protos is made by a simple wooden stick and a canvas just cutted rectangular.  That prototype is equipped with 2 leechlines each side and 2 buntlines on the bottom, all made by a simple black sewing thread. 

In other words, I tested if there is the possibility to obtaining a result at last similar to the photo of the model I show.  The big question , for me, was "how the clew lines can come out from the top of the furled sail". Now I know how it's possible to do it.

It is clear that on a real model the job must be done with accuracy.

Just till before this test, I was able to furl a sail only as shown in this photo:

This new experience will be usefull on some next model, currently I am building a shooner and I think the sails will be "to the wind".

ciao !  oldboy.

Ciao a tutti.

Thank you for your help. I did a champion  of sail and yard and I've tried a folding method. The result looks good to me and then the method could be credible.

Note: Small pliers are used to hold the canvas in various stages of folding, to be able to photograph.

Well, for now this is satisfactory for me, but each new suggestion will be appreciated.

Ciao !            oldboy

Photos:

Ciao. Thank you for your help. To get a realistic furled sail on a model I agree it is necessary to reduce dimensions of the sail.  I know a metod to do it in order to get a partially furled sail. I have seen the Oneida model too.

Well, what I would like to learn is how to fold the canvas of the sail to be in the form of the photo I posted. You can see that a big part of the sail is folded in the center of the yard, then is bowsed by a rectangular gasket and the clues come out from each side of the gasket. I am reading the book " Seamanship in the age of sail" by John Harland,  but it is difficult for me to well understand the  description.

Hoping someone can help...

ciao. oldboy

Good morning. I've seen a model of square-rigged ship with sails furled on the yard. I enclose a picture. I ask if anyone knows the  method to fold the sail, to get the result as in the photo. thanks.

Ciao. oldboy