Recomend me a Sail Repairer near Chichester or Fareham.

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I need a UV strip repaired/refitted to a small jib off a Corribee.

I'd like a very fast turn around. Good quality and a keen-ish price would be nice too!

Can someone recommend somewhere in Chichester, along the M/A27 West of Chi or very close to Fareham? Somewhere geared up for dinghies would probably do.
 
Mark-1 said:
I need a UV strip repaired/refitted to a small jib off a Corribee.

I'd like a very fast turn around. Good quality and a keen-ish price would be nice too!

Can someone recommend somewhere in Chichester, along the M/A27 West of Chi or very close to Fareham? Somewhere geared up for dinghies would probably do.
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Covercare, based in Thornham marina, will do it. They did mine a few years ago. http://www.covercareltd.co.uk/


If you can remove the old strip they may reduce the price a little. At least they did for me.

Also if its clean they wont want to send it to the laundry.
 
You could try phoning:
Sailstyle on Hayling
Flew Sails at Wicor
Dynamic Sails at Emsworth. (Very good, perhaps not cheap!)
Batt Sails?
Fast turnaround can be a problem.

Repair work can be expensive in relation to the value of a small-ish sail a few years old.
You could consider DIY. Maybe even self-adhesive sailcloth and just stitch down the leach and foot edges?
Or you could live without a UV strip for the rest of the season, just drop the sail if you're not sailing for more than a day or two?
 
I'd go for Batt Sails - top quality, nice people to deal with and they offered our class a discount - but I'm sure they are accomodating to everyone.

And the boss, ( Dick I think ? ) was a womble on top of the pops when his brother wrote the songs, what more could one possibly want in a sailmaker ?
 
Loft so31 dos a decent couple of jobs for me. Adjusted my main and following season replaced the zip in my stack pack.

I'll be back for a new job from them over the winter.

Nice guys, good price.
 
Thanks all. I've had a closer look. The sail's in pretty good nick so worth investing a couple of quid.

In fact the patch that actually needs replacing is under 130cmx30cm. Looks quite an easy job.

SWMBO refused to have a go at it, but I'm half tempted to have a go myself.

Sounds like both Arthur's and Cover care are the sorts of places that might be willing to sew an offcut patch on fast and for reasonable cash so will call them first.
 
Thanks to everyone, I've no doubt all the suggestions met my criteria. As it happened Wicor was convenient for me so Flew Sails got the gig. They did the job in a couple of hours on the day I dropped the sail in. Can't comment on the quality of the job 'cos I know nothing about sail making, but price, service and speed were all perfect. The air of 'no-bulls**tyness' was very welcome too.
 
Seajet said:
I'd go for Batt Sails - top quality, nice people to deal with and they offered our class a discount - but I'm sure they are accomodating to everyone.

And the boss, ( Dick I think ? ) was a womble on top of the pops when his brother wrote the songs, what more could one possibly want in a sailmaker ?
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