Just out of interest, we compared the two and found there was very little difference in size or shape. We took the foresail into the sailmakers to get them to convert it, which would be considerably cheaper than getting a new one made. After that, we decided to put the old one on the boat and use it till the wind ripped it too much to use any more. We thought we might as well get the last little bit of use out of it. Meanwhile, i was starting work on producing a new issue of the Spunk Archive.
Spunk is a library of anarchist literature on internet.
It's administered by a collective of people who are scattered around the world and who communicate by email messages. The collective makes all its decisions and discusses issues relating to running such a library by sending email messages to a system that distributes copies of the message to everyone else in the group. In that way, there's a sort of permanent running collective meeting happening, where anyone can chuck ideas or thoughts in at any time of the day or night, from anywhere in the world, and they can be read by everyone else in the group next time they check their email. At that point there were nearly a thousand files in the archive, but it hadn't been updated for over six months and there were lots of new submissions waiting to be processed and added to it. There was nobody else who was willing or able to do the job, so it looked as if it was my turn.