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I have seen lots about the Sail-Care LaMauney process for cleaning and
re-resining sails.Any experiences here. Seems pretty expensive with shipping and all.
Also have read about WASH-SAFE sail wash:
http://www.wash-safe.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=W&Product_Code=WS-SAW&Category_Code=Marine-SW&gclid=CILrg-nhsp0CFSDxDAodUQsVjQSeems I could get my sails clean at home, but what about the
re-resining? Anyone addressed that?Pete
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Hi Pete-
Used Sail Care once years ago on a prior boat’s main. Sail came back white and crisp. Shape was not improved, and bolt ropes shrunk a bit which made it baggier than before. We eventually took it to Bacons to sell, and they had a rather dim view of the process, appraising the sail for less because of it. Had a local loft wash a sail for us, and it came back soft and lifeless.
With good sails available from offshore and reasonable prices, we just use them then replace them.
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Pete, Having been in the sailmaking trade for over 20 years and knowing how sailcloth is made I think that you should think twice about having that done. In order to resinate sailcloth, the cloth after being woven and heat shrunk, passes through a resin bath and between 2 pressurized heated rollers. After making cloth into a sail you can no longer pass the cloth thru the rollers, so in essence the new resin becomes a coating that can flake off.      I think practical sailor did a review of the process a few years back and it did not fare favorably.  David Thompson
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Hi Pete:
I’ve personally used these folks 3 or 4 times over the years. Excellent work every time. All three sails on my 424 were in fair condition at best. They came back white, restiched, and crisp as new. When I sent my sails in Dec of 2008 they were getting over 100 bags of sails a day. They’ve got the only sail machine in the free world. We recommend them to our clients all the time and I’ve never had a bad report.
Jack Coulter / Deaton Yacht Sales
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I believe that the cheaper brand would be Oxy Clean. I use that mixed with
some dreft laundry detergent in a kiddy pool and a low power pressure
washer. First I get in and do my Lucy stomping the grapes imitation then
hit the bad spots with the pressure washer from a safe distance. My sails
are the 30 year factory original saggy but clean till the dirt dobbers get
to them.Linus
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Linus,
What is “dreft laundry detergent”?
Pete
Linus Martinez wrote:
Quote:I believe that the cheaper brand would be Oxy Clean. I use that mixed
with some dreft laundry detergent in a kiddy pool and a low power
pressure washer. First I get in and do my Lucy stomping the grapes
imitation then hit the bad spots with the pressure washer from a safe
distance. My sails are the 30 year factory original saggy but clean
till the dirt dobbers get to them.Linus
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Phosphate free environmentally not so horrible detergent that my wife
gets at fairway.Adam Silverstein, iPhone
(“it was horrible,” recounts former child)
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Pete Dubler wrote:
Quote:Linus,What is “dreft laundry detergent”?
Pete
Linus Martinez wrote:
Quote:I believe that the cheaper brand would be Oxy Clean. I use that
mixed with some dreft laundry detergent in a kiddy pool and a low
power pressure washer. First I get in and do my Lucy stomping the
grapes imitation then hit the bad spots with the pressure washer
from a safe distance. My sails are the 30 year factory original
saggy but clean till the dirt dobbers get to them.Linus
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Linus:
I keep my Hunter at our home in Georgia, where we have a major problem with “mud daubers” as they are called here. Nothing is worse than having their red mud nests fall to the deck and explode into a red dust cloud. I solved the problem of them building their red clay nests in the sail folds by sewing velcro all the way around the cover edges, inside of the snaps. Works well.
No mud daubers in Hawai’i (or winter either) so Lady Leanne doesn’t have this problem.
Dan Kalinowski
Lady Leanne II (#135)
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thanks (now, what’s a “Fairway”… just kidding)
Pete
adam silverstein wrote:
Quote:Phosphate free environmentally not so horrible detergent that my wife
gets at fairway.Adam Silverstein, iPhone
(“it was horrible,” recounts former child)
On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Pete Dubler wrote:
Quote:Linus,What is “dreft laundry detergent”?
Pete
Linus Martinez wrote:
Quote:I believe that the cheaper brand would be Oxy Clean. I use that
mixed with some dreft laundry detergent in a kiddy pool and a low
power pressure washer. First I get in and do my Lucy stomping the
grapes imitation then hit the bad spots with the pressure washer
from a safe distance. My sails are the 30 year factory original
saggy but clean till the dirt dobbers get to them.Linus
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