[Rhodes22-list] Sail repair

[Hank]

You'd need a pretty heavy duty sewing machine.  A normal machine
probably wouldn't get through the tab and sail without damage.  Other
that that the worst case scenario I can think of is that you'd be back
in the same predicament you're in now so not really much risk.

Hank

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Theodore Boender <boendert at me.com> wrote:
> Rhodies,
>
> So a few weeks ago, as I mentioned previously, I found myself in some pretty gusty winds. It appears that the tab that holds the head of the genoa to the GBI furling frayed and is no longer able to hold the sail up on the head stay. See picture.
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> Is this a repair I should try to tackle myself by sewing on a nylon tab?
>
> The admiral is pretty handy with a sewing machine.
>
> Sending the sail to a repair shop will leave me on the hard for a few weeks. I'd like to avoid that. The water is calling me...
>
> Cheers,
> Ted
> s/v AIRPOWER
> R22 1991/2013
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