Not super quickly, though. (I have been in Atlanta and am heading out tonight for St. Augustine.)

I did manage to knock out the leather covering for four of the nine shrouds. I now have a proper leather hole-punch, so it went a lot smoother than the forestay. I was learning as I did them so the quality varies a little. By the last one, I figured out one main thing: the sail-maker’s twine doesn’t hold knots very well.

A way around that was to finish the covering of the loop with a decent length of twine left, and to use that twine to stitch the covering over the nicopress fitting.