Sails and delamination

[Rum_Pirate]

The main sail (got it in that condition with boat) is delaminating.

The delimitation is about 12" square and is delaminating in one layer on one side only.

Basically the layer is in 3mm strips, almost like somebody tried to 'comb' it using a comb with razors as teeth.

The sail is for cruising and not racing.

Can this be economically be repaired? (wishful thinking)

If do how?

 

[jamie N]

RP; I think that I might be able to help here. Does your sail appear to be losing a very thin, 'diaphanous' layer? If that's the case, I'd the same and was informed that it'd been covered before with something like a 3M waterproofing product, which was the stuff that was in fact falling off.
Does that sound plausible?

 

[Rum_Pirate]

RP; I think that I might be able to help here. Does your sail appear to be losing a very thin, 'diaphanous' layer? If that's the case, I'd the same and was informed that it'd been covered before with something like a 3M waterproofing product, which was the stuff that was in fact falling off.
Does that sound plausible?

I will have to have a close up look.

I don't recall seeing it having any repair.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

If it’s a Neil Pryde original type sail for an F27, it’s cream crackered. Ours came with one doing that, the rest delaminated pretty quickly, just a couple of sails, and we were left with a kind of lace sail that went nowhere. The sheets of mylar just blew away, quite funny apart from the plastic waste pollution part. That wasn’t so good.