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My mom is a lifelong quilter. When I expressed interest in learning to sew for some projects on the sailboat she was quite pleased. She gifted me her first sewing machine, a 1949 Singer 221 "Featherweight". Contrary to it's name, this machine is solid metal and handles heavy fabric quite...
I had a triangular shaped piece of duck cloth left over from the riding sail and flopper stopper projects and decided to put it to good use. For the attachment points up top I used coupler nuts and eye bolts on top of the factory nut which holds the cabin top grab rails in place. I only see...