Comments on: Cleaning Sails https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: John Sandusky https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/#comment-151711 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:00:17 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=193884#comment-151711 Thanks Ben!
I recently bought a lovely little ‘glass Wittholz 11 with a badly chewed and stained sail. I repaired the holes and leech line, but regular laundry soap made very little difference in the stains. I’ll try your method next.

]]> By: Michael Moore https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/#comment-148215 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:25:40 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=193884#comment-148215 Great discovery! Folex has been a problem solver for years of raising puppies, but I never considered it for sails. Come spring, I’m going to try it on some stains from the leathers on the spars of my lug sail.

]]> By: John Pannacciulli https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/#comment-147190 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:01:53 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=193884#comment-147190 I am really glad I found this. After all years storing sails I had the same urine damage just this past year. Going to give this treatment a try. I just started dry storing my lines and sails in a tight lidded Rubbermaid brand trash can indoors. so far they seem to be holding up. I am also looking into some packs of moisture absorbers to prevent mildew.

]]> By: Ben Fuller https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/#comment-146446 Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:33:25 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=193884#comment-146446 In reply to alex zimmerman.

Regular 4 oz dacron is the stuff. I’ve taken it up to my favorite sailmakers for repair.

]]> By: alex zimmerman https://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/cleaning-sails/#comment-146298 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:47:15 +0000 https://smallboatsmonthly.com/?post_type=article&p=193884#comment-146298 Ben,
Unless I missed it, you didn’t say what the sail is made of. I’m assuming regular Dacron?

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