"Jacques Mertens" ) writes:
Many years I experimented with junk sails made from polytarp, the blue
stuff, and contact cement worked fine.

"contact" cement is also called "rubber" cement

people who make polytarp sails also bond by heating with a hot iron.
never tried it myself.

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