It was another long and productive day for Kevin. Well, day and night that is. He worked until 5 AM or so this morning. He’s started the process of attaching the vertical load tapes to the gores and joining the gores together to form the full envelope.
The first few load tapes took a about 3 and a half hours to attach to their respective gores. But he’s gotten the hang of it now.
Likewise, the first vertical seam also took quite a while – about 3 hours. These seams are more complicated in that there are other seams running at right angles to the edge being sewn. It takes some fiddling to get it right. But he’s also picked up considerable speed since then.
More pictures soon.