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In order to keep the new spars in fine shape I installed leathers on the boom and yard. For the boom I used 40cm x 15cm on a 50mm spar. I cut the 2mm holes with an awl at 7mm from the edge and 10mm apart. In hindsight 15cm was too narrow, especially since Marten-Jan thought that the oars leather would not stretch much. I used waxed twine and two needles. My lucky guess was that I would need around 200cm for a length of 40cm.

For the yard I used 60cm x 15.5cm which again was a tad too narrow. I used 300cm twine which was just about right.

After leathering both spars I used the remainder of Easter Monday to sail on the Dokkumer Ee. Upwind Hatseflats was much quicker in the light airs. If I had stuck with the old sail I would probably had switched to rowing, so I was quite happy with the new sail!