[Alberg30] Sail Cleaning

[John Birch]

As a rule of thumb - never clean your sails with anything stronger than
detergent and a very soft brush or cloth - and do the work by hand.
Commercial washers put them in machines which breaks down the resins and
ruins them. The cloth becomes much more "stretchy" as the resins that help
bind the threads & fibres and are broken down in the commercial cleaning
process. I've seen this damage first hand - sail looks great but you can
stretch the cloth by hand off the bias - something you can't do with cloth
in good shape.

I have no specific knowledge of the company you are referring to.

My source is my sailmaker and every sailmaker I've talked to and books I've
read.

Thx.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christos Katehis" <GreekSailor at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Alberg 30 public list" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: [Alberg30] Sail Cleaning


Has anyone used  "The sail Cleaners" in Ft. Lauderdale, FL ?

Christos Katehis
Kasia #383
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