The Plan

I searched on the web for anyone who has converted a spinnaker into a pool shade cover, with no luck.

I did however find a couple of videos on how to sew spinnakers, which is going to be the basis of my project:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TI-37rtb4Q
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w02iSkkNqEQ

The plan is to:

1. Buy Spinnakers - Done
2. Cut them in half to fit the space
3. Repair the various tears and holes
4. Make new clews by:

• Making the Stainless Steel rings
• Cutting the nylon webbing to size
• Cutting the Dacron panels
• Cutting the Spinnaker material panels
• Sewing the webbing to the first panel
• Gluing all the Dacron panels together
• Gluing the Dacron panels to the spinnaker
• Gluing the spinnaker panels on top of the Dacron panels
• Sewing along all the panel edges
• Sewing the existing edge material
• Sew the new edge material
• Cut leather chafing material
• Sew the leather chafing material

The stuff I'm going to have to buy are:

1. Sewing machine
2. Spare needles
3. Nylon UV thread
4. 3M 77 Spray
5. Two sided tape
6. Edge material (maybe I might be able to re-use the existing material)
7. Awl & sinew

The stuff I have and/or can make:

1. The rings
2. Webbing
3. Dacron panels
4. Spinnaker material
5. Leather

And so it starts...