New life for old sails

[Jerry]

Does anyone know anything about SailCare, Inc or their "LaMauney" process to "re-resin" old sails? This sounds like an interesting and inexpensive way to add life to old sails.

[Erick Frack]

I uses this company and had great results. The sails really did look like new. I also had them do minor sail repairs (replace leathers, fix batten pockets, etc.) and their work was good. My only suggestion is that you get your sails in early. I procrastinated until February and did not get them back until May. Remember to send in your dirty lines too. It is well worth the $5, they will look like new also.

Erick Frack
Adriana CD 30



efrack@execpc.com

[Jerry]

I uses this company and had great results. The sails really did look like new. I also had them do minor sail repairs (replace leathers, fix batten pockets, etc.) and their work was good. My only suggestion is that you get your sails in early. I procrastinated until February and did not get them back until May. Remember to send in your dirty lines too. It is well worth the $5, they will look like new also.

Erick Frack
Adriana CD 30

Erick, thanks for the response. I guess my prejudice was showing but I couldn't understand what a company located in the mountains of western Pennsylvania would know about sails. The last time I dealt with a company from that part of the world, I mail-ordered a guaranteed bug killer. My $10 (plus shipping and handling)got me 2 boards and an instruction sheet directing me to place a bug on one board and hit it with the other.

Jerry
"Cottontail", CD30

[Tim Sanborn]

Does anyone know anything about SailCare, Inc or their "LaMauney" process to "re-resin" old sails? This sounds like an interesting and inexpensive way to add life to old sails.

Please let me know how to contact Sailcare. Address and phone, if you have it.

Thanks,

Tim Sanborn
Zephyr



tsanborn@ameritech.net

[James Kimbrel]

I just got back from the St. Petersburg Sail Expo where Sailcare had a booth set up. They had a sail with panels that were cleaned with the LaMauney process sewn to the adjacent panel which had not been cleaned. The difference was amazing. The only thing that I found hard to believe was that a sail could get so dirty.

Does anyone know anything about SailCare, Inc or their "LaMauney" process to "re-resin" old sails? This sounds like an interesting and inexpensive way to add life to old sails.

JKimbrel@compuserve.com

[Jerry]

Does anyone know anything about SailCare, Inc or their "LaMauney" process to "re-resin" old sails? This sounds like an interesting and inexpensive way to add life to old sails.

Please let me know how to contact Sailcare. Address and phone, if you have it.

Thanks,

Tim Sanborn
Zephyr

The company is on the web at www.sailcare.com. Address is 410 9th St, Ford City, PA 16226. Phone 800-433-7245.

[D. Stump, Hanalei]

Jerry,
I contacted Sailcare on the web, filled out there quick quote form and two days later received their guess for applying the process to Hanalei's Main, Stays'l, and Jib. $420.00 for all three sails not including any repairs. I haven't decided if I'll do it or not.

Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei (CD-30)

[Paul Scribner]

I uses this company and had great results. The sails really did look like new. I also had them do minor sail repairs (replace leathers, fix batten pockets, etc.) and their work was good. My only suggestion is that you get your sails in early. I procrastinated until February and did not get them back until May. Remember to send in your dirty lines too. It is well worth the $5, they will look like new also.

Erick Frack
Adriana CD 30

Erick, thanks for the response. I guess my prejudice was showing but I couldn't understand what a company located in the mountains of western Pennsylvania would know about sails. The last time I dealt with a company from that part of the world, I mail-ordered a guaranteed bug killer. My $10 (plus shipping and handling)got me 2 boards and an instruction sheet directing me to place a bug on one board and hit it with the other.

Jerry
"Cottontail", CD30

Jerry: E-mail me your e-mail address. By the way, they got their start doing drapery for rich people and moved right on to doing sails for poor people.
Paul



scribner@channel1.com