… I made them to custom fit around the spreader tips on my double spreader rig. I take my mast down every year, so I slit one half of the stitching, slide that up the shroud if I want to remove the shroud from the spreader tip. Sometimes I just leave them on and coil the shroud around spreader when taking off. It takes about 15 minutes per to do a nice, new stitch. You can get nice, thick pieces of elk hide from a sailmaker or on-line. Cheers, John