All the pin-rails epoxied and pinned in place; trim boards installed; new, thicker end-boards made and put-in; Fair-lead log up forward for the down-hauls and such; I moved on to the head's spray-screens.
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The ones I had 3D printed curled, and I didn't think would stand up to the stress of being made to work, so, I went back to plan-A, which is to make them basically the way the real one were made.
I made frames, or rails and stanchions of brass rod, CAed them into the head, and backed that up with 5-minute (
sorry, don't know what that is in metric) epoxy.
I made the tarpaulin from a snippet of Supplex (the cloth I make sails from); wood strips hemmed into the bottom and aft end; and spray-painted black, front and back.
The hemmed edges were glues to the head-rail and the hull, while the loose portion was pulled over and CAed to the frame. I then laced the tarp to the frame with Dacron sail thread. It'll get a coat of paint brushed on when the port-side catches up.
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