A Google search on "history of tanbark sail" gave me this quote and link to a site on "Inland Seas", a reproduction schooner that sails Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan . . . "The sails themselves are red dacron, red to evoke the days when canvas sails were preserved from the elements by a soaking in a solution of kerosene, pine tar, and tanbark from hemlock trees." http://www.leelanau.com/nmj/land/inland-seas.html begin 666 NMJ The Lessons of the Wind.url M6T1%1D%53%1=#0I"05-%55),/6AT=' Z+R]W=W<N;&5E;&%N874N8V]M+VYM M:B]L86YD+VEN;&%N9"US96%S+FAT;6P-"@T*6TEN=&5R;F5T4VAO<G1C=71= M#0I54DP]:'1T<#HO+W=W=RYL965L86YA=2YC;VTO;FUJ+VQA;F0O:6YL86YD I+7-E87,N:'1M; T*36]D:69I960]13 P1$(T13(R0D8S0S,P,38U#0H` ` end