[Alberg30] Sail Cleaning
Christos Katehis
GreekSailor at worldnet.att.net
Fri Sep 26 07:36:11 PDT 2003
John,
Thank you very much for your time and input.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Birch" <Sunstone at cogeco.ca>
To: "Alberg 30 public list" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Sail Cleaning
> Hi Christos,
>
> Depending on how much of the sail is soiled you can spot clean it or
stretch
> it out on a clean lawn and hand wash and rinse the whole thing - it is
time
> consuming but your sail will keep it's structural integrity. The other
thing
> is to make sure it is dry when you put it away. Don't hang it in a breeze
to
> flap about as some people do as it again breaks down the resins.
>
> We are on the Great Lakes so rinsing salt off is not an issue.
>
> Very soft brush or cloth only.
>
> Try to walk on it as little as possible - it's really quite straight
> forward.
>
> You can talk to good sailmakers about more aggressive cleaners if you have
> to have them absolutely clean but avoid those commercial cleaning
companies
> like the plague. I saw a beautiful suit of A-37 sails (Murphy Nye's)
ruined
> by a commercial cleaner and was with the sailmaker when he unbagged them
and
> the first words out of his mouth were - "oh no, they've had them cleaned."
> He then showed me what it had done to the cloth.
>
> I have only spot cleaned my sails when something was really yucky like
bird
> poop or limited area of dirt. They don't stay absolutely white forever -
but
> a little discoloration is normal. I do rinse them from time to time to get
> any airborne grit off so it doesn't work it's way in, but the resins do a
> good job on their own of keeping grit out, and an occasional rinse is
mostly
> all I do.
>
> Best of luck
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christos Katehis" <GreekSailor at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Alberg 30 public list" <public-list at alberg30.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Sail Cleaning
>
>
> > John,
> >
> > Have you washed your sails? Other than lots off space to hang and wash,
> what
> > else is important?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Birch" <Sunstone at cogeco.ca>
> > To: "Alberg 30 public list" <public-list at alberg30.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Sail Cleaning
> >
> >
> > > 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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