Andrew wrote:
Thank you very much, im not liking having the way that those batten pockets are sewn on with the pull on the stitching. Can the batten pockets be sewn on as per a normal fully battered sail, with the broadseaming on the lower panel and overlapped to have the batten centrally within the sail..... or am I overthinking/ complicating the design ??
I suggest that you cut the panels from one cloth, at this size of sail. Try to get the threadline as close as you can to parallel to the luff and leech, and I'd use a half-size version of this to add camber:
or a shelf foot, at the top and bottom of each panel, rather than the simpler barrel cut (Arne is writing for first time sailmakers, and if you already have sailmaking skills, there are more sophisticated ways available to you).
The dressmaker's seam is the easiest way to join these panels, with one panel laid on top of the other. I've sailed across oceans with sails sewn this way, without problems.
Having joined the panels, there are various different ways of adding pockets. Here are some:
but you can certainly add them with an "omega" kind of cross section, so that they stand proud on the side of the sail next to the mast.