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Repair Possible For Furling Jib Torn At Sacrificial Panel?
I have a furling jib which is torn at the inside edge of the sacrificial panel on the leech. This is the second sacrificial panel. The sail has estimated 10,000 miles on it of medium usage. The material does not seem excessively degraded.
I am wondering if this is a common problem solved just be extending the width of a new sacrificial panel by a few inches. Or is this not advised? Is there some other means of repair?
I have a furling jib which is torn at the inside edge of the sacrificial panel on the leech. This is the second sacrificial panel. The sail has estimated 10,000 miles on it of medium usage. The material does not seem excessively degraded.
I am wondering if this is a common problem solved just be extending the width of a new sacrificial panel by a few inches. Or is this not advised? Is there some other means of repair?
The sacrificial panel is there to protect the sail from UV when furled, it's an additional layer of cloth on the part of the sail that is visible when the sail is furled.
I have seen some sails where the sacrificial panel have been made to small so you get a unprotected part of the sail when furled.
If this is the case this UV will "burn" the fibers and make the sail brittle in this area.
I don't know what happened to your sail.
It's not necessarily the hours of use that determines the life of a sail 10000h = 1 year 2 months of continuous sailing
I'm not a sailmaker, but as I have understood from talking with sailmakers it's difficult to add new cloth to an existing sail because the old cloth have been stretched. This will give uneven stretch in the sail.
It might be possible to patch the sail - but I would talk to a sailmaker about this.
Sacrificial panel: The strip that is there to take UV damage when the sail is furled, yes? And the tear is along the dotted line formed by the thread that runs down the edge of that?
It is possible that the loft used the wrong thread, i.e. that the thread was stronger than the sailcloth, with the wrong tension, so it saws the sailcloth and creates a "tear along this line" or that the second installation of the cloth randomly punched too many wrong holes, making the dotted line even easier to tear. Either way, it should be possible to "simply" have a newer wider sacrificial strip sewn in, a little bit wider, so it is sewn into sailcloth that doesn't already have a dotted line punched in it.
Some lofts will argue pro and con that they can GLUE the strip on, so there are no holes and no dotted line to tear the sail with. Either way, with 10,000 miles on the sail you'd want a loft to take a look at it, see how the cloth has held up, and then see if they will do a repair and stand behind it. Odds are it is possible.
I would think you could go a few inches larger and re-sew a new panel on there...
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