Recommendations for sail laundry Portsmouth

[jontifosi]

Any tips where to take my sails (only about 7sqm and 3 sqm) and rough cost to expect?

 

[lw395]

There used to be a place called Tip Top Sails IIRC.

Personally, it's a diy job.
Find a clean area of decking or patio. Or one you can clean!
Or lay out a bit of tarp or thick polythene?

 

[pappaecho]

In Gosport there is a launderette with industrial size machines that does it a for a few bob, and takes about 90 minutes.
Next to Dominoes Pizza, near the Memorial Hospital and Firestation on Bury Rd

 

[lw395]

It depends whether you want your sails chucked in a machine and beaten to death.
I think someone was advertising a process which unrolled the sails through a few troughs of stuff without creasing them?
Obviously new racing sails will need different treatment to soft old cruiser sails.

 

[jakeroyd]

Arun sails ? (not in Portsmouth but not too far away)

 

[VicS]

Any tips where to take my sails (only about 7sqm and 3 sqm) and rough cost to expect?

Almost any sail-maker will take them in send them to a laundry but they might expect to inspect and repair at the same time.

Some chandlers too. Arthurs Chandlery in Gosport have been mentioned in the past IIRC

Tip Top , mentioned above, don't take sails from Joe Public but take them via "Trade Partners " ie sail makers and chandlers, including Arthurs Chandlery. They use traditional methods I believe. Trade partners listed on the website

NovoSail ( Southampton) take sails directly and use modern hi-tech methods.


http://www.tiptopsails.com/

http://www.novosail.com/index-en.php

 

[VicS]

In Gosport there is a launderette with industrial size machines that does it a for a few bob, and takes about 90 minutes.
Next to Dominoes Pizza, near the Memorial Hospital and Firestation on Bury Rd

This Washeteria in Avenue Road ?? http://goo.gl/maps/5ydh on the corner with Privet Road


OK I suppose if you dont mind your sails being washed in a washing machine

 

[Boathook]

Why do your sails need cleaning? A little used clean pontoon, fresh water and a deck brush is the cheapest and possibly the easiest method. A washing machine will knock the filler out of the sails which means that they won't catch as much wind.

 

[Seajet]

Why do your sails need cleaning? A little used clean pontoon, fresh water and a deck brush is the cheapest and possibly the easiest method. A washing machine will knock the filler out of the sails which means that they won't catch as much wind.

+1, some fresh water and a brush is all that should be used, to get the cutting salt crystals off.

The thought of using a washing machine makes my toes curl.

 

[Allergy]

Washing sails

+1 for Arun sails & replaced the window on my spray hood

 

[VicS]

+1 for Arun sails & replaced the window on my spray hood

We took a genoa there a few years back for a new UV strip. They insisted on sending the sail off to the laundry too.
We though they were a tad expensive but since we had not shopped around we just had to pay what they asked.