Joe wrote:
Ellen MacArthur wrote:

"Joe" wrote

You would be better off trashing the sail and buying a new one.


Probably. But then I wouldn't be able to tell people, "original sails".
A boat with original sails is kewler don't you think?


No. It detracts from the 120 dollars the boat and sails are worth.

You can make enough in one night too buy new sails ....

Joe

YECH!! I need to get my mind cleaned of the mental picture of ADN
earning $500 a night. Joe, you owe me a large extremely high proof
drink for that . . .

I think from the deliberate misinterpretation and willfull ignorance
*and* the suddern familiarity with sailmaking, if it isnt old ADN then
its someone who trained under him [and doesn't that make a nice mental
picture for you to contemplate :-) Better take something for nausea and
quickly . . .]

There is only ONE way the OP can prove (s)he's not Neil. A picture,
clothes on, sitting down sewing that sail.

Well it was good for light entertainment while it lasted but Nellen,
you're well busted.

For anyone else who's got a POS sail like that, You *can* fix it as I
described but you'd have to be a moron to want to. *Far* easier to earn
minimum wage cleaning truck stop urinals untill you've saved enough to
buy a new one. I'd only consider it if we were dismasted and drifting
and it and the spinny pole were our only hope of making a *distant*
landfall, then I'd say *no* *way* and settle for ropeing the luff with
some kevlar cord (I always keep some on board) or a length of Vectran
then using it *as* *is*.
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