Changing Sail Numbers

[Glenn AUS 719]

Now I know why people buy new sails. Just changed the sail numbers on Tim's old sail and it is not fun.
Plenty of turps, paper towels and lots of patience.
A web site with ideas if you are in the sad position of having to do this tedious job.
www.geocities.com/kc7cscow/clink/cmanual/removlet.htm

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see also www.sabre.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2882#2882 for some more ideas.

[tim]

You should try it when you 4 sails to do! It's especially hard when your better half considers any time spent working on boats as "sailing time". It's much simpler to buy a new boat. That way (if your quick) you will only have 1 number to change.

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An easy way to do it is to pull the old number off. stick the new one over all the sticky residue if you are unlucky enough to have any. then put talcum powder over the rest of the sticky nuts. this will stop the sail sticking to itself. The talcum powder will fall off quickly enough and mostly take the rest of the residue with it. It also makes the sail smell nice if you like that type of thing.
It is a lot better for the sail as using solvent just makes the cloth weaker as it takes away the resin in the cloth as well.
Or just buy a new sail with the right numbers on it.