• kgatesman
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 06:18 PM

  Attached are some pics of my sails after the Sailcare treatment. New zipper was $50, cleaning and re-resining for the jib was $50 and $100 for the main. They repaired the clew of the jib, where all the stitching was popping, repaired the chafe from the shrouds, this kind of work was about $40 an hour.
  
  They look great. The chafe was really bad on the starboard side, and non-existant on the port, thus the white repair panels.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  edited by: kgatesman, Apr 10, 2010 - 09:32 AM

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• coastrat
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 06:29 PM

  sweet...
  
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• mma600psi
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 10, 2010 - 08:55 AM

  Nice sails....I like that pattern.

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• MN3
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 09:34 AM

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  re-resining for the jib was $50

  
  
  
  what is "re-resining"?

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• kgatesman
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 09:45 AM

  Their site uses this langauage, "impregnating the cloth with resins and setting these resins with controlled heat."
  
  They put the starch bake in. I am not sure how long it lasts, I had one sail a couple years after this treatment, and it remained stiff.

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• MN3
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 10:32 AM

  interesting, what's their site?
  
  I would THINK shape has much more impact than stiffness... but maybe stiffness matters too?
  
  
  
  edited by: andrewscott, Apr 12, 2010 - 03:12 PM

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• rpiper138
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 01:53 PM

  andrewscott

  
  
  I would THINK shape has much more impact than stiffness... but maybe stiffness matters to?

  
  
  Insert joke here!

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• coastrat
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 02:27 PM

  thats what she said.....there i said it, thank you michael scott.
  
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• MN3
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 03:12 PM

  :p

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• kgatesman
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 11:59 AM

  Stiffer sails are flatter with fewer wrinkles and hold their shape better. It probably makes less a difference with full batten sails, but on the club's Lasers and 420s, I found stiffer/newer sails were noticeably better performers.

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