The value of a sailor's eye

PhillM said:
Why restrict yourself. I bet if you tried you could sell a few £500 advertising packages to marine companies. It's petty cash for most. Think about where you could put, say 5 logos and actively sell them. That's a new suit I sails and a few nights in b&q when you want it.
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a step too far for my own equanimity I think


but trying out gear I could not normally afford or using new gear instead of the old existing stuff that I have seems acceptable in return for talking about how useful it is seems fine

after all I assume harmony's current old sail has a logo on the bottom and that will appear on the films

Sealine will get their antique radio shown occasionally

plastimo get their dinghy featured for nowt

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I noticed a while ago and I think it has been commented upon that virtually every BBC outdoor presenter wears Berghaus jackets, I suspect no coincidence and someone is gaining something...so I doubt Dylans' sail logos - quite probably Ratsey & Lapthorn so long gone anyway - would be a problem.
 
Jeckells went for it...

http://www.jeckells.co.uk/

I am so happy

They do not have any red sailcloth in a high enough weight to they asked me to pay £200 towards the sail

very happy to do that

I am going to go up there and make a short film for them about making a genoa that holds a good aerofoil shape right through the roll...



brilliant

tonight I will start on the Merlot and then go onto the Whisky

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Well ponced.


dylanwinter said:
Jeckells went for it...

I am so happy

They do not have any red sailcloth in a high enough weight to they asked me to pay £200 towards the sail

very happy to do that

I am going to go up there and make a short film for them about making a genoa that holds a good aerofoil shape right through the roll...

brilliant

tonight I will start on the Merlot and then go onto the Whisky

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Dylan that is fantastic . British too. For a British boat and a very British kind of amateur enterprise and adventure. Triffic
My first boat ( (40' of iffy pine) had beautiful Jeckells tan sails.

Easy on the eye indeed.
 
There's also the safety point, red sails are a lot easier to spot, and storm jibs are often red, dayglo or something similar nowadays, wish I'd thought of and been able to pay for that when I got my used-only-once storm jib...

A red sail may be handy off Cape Wrath but I hope for the right, photographic reasons.
 
I think you'll find Ratsey Sails are a company owned by a relative, Steve Ratsey; the original Ratsey and Lapthorn went in the 1980's - this is a new offshoot.
 
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Seajet said:
I think you'll find Ratsey Sails are a company owned by a relative, Steve Ratsey; the original Ratsey and Lapthorn went in the 1980's - this is a new offshoot.
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head honcho at Jeckells is Chris Jeckells - Scion of the Jeckells dynasty

- when I phoned he was out measuring rigs - which sounds like a hands on sort of bloke to me

they have gone the extra yard to find the right weight cloth for me

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Seajet said:
I think you'll find Ratsey Sails are a company owned by a relative, Steve Ratsey; the original Ratsey and Lapthorn went in the 1980's - this is a new offshoot.
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The Ratsey's I was referring to sew Ratsey and Lapthorn labels on their sails, are owned by paralympic medallist Andy Cassell, and have been at 42 Medina Road, Cowes for as long as I can remember; the loft looks unchanged since they were knocking up studdingsails for Noah.
 
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dylanwinter said:
head honcho at Jeckells is Chris Jeckells - Scion of the Jeckells dynasty

- when I phoned he was out measuring rigs - which sounds like a hands on sort of bloke to me

they have gone the extra yard to find the right weight cloth for me

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If they want red & haven't got any, Bembridge sailmaker Paul Newell uses red dacron for the Redwings.
 
Keen_Ed said:
If they want red & haven't got any, Bembridge sailmaker Paul Newell uses red dacron for the Redwings.
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they think they have chased some down

the problem was getting the right weight for Cape wrath

they could find dinghy stuff and really heavy storm sail grade.

yesterday I was with a forumite whose twin brother sailed with some Jeckells sails all the way to NZ and said they were in pretty good shape after such a long slow trip

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Are you going round Cape Wrath in a storm then?

ie >= force 10?

I might watch the video of that

dylanwinter said:
they think they have chased some down

the problem was getting the right weight for Cape wrath

they could find dinghy stuff and really heavy storm sail grade.

yesterday I was with a forumite whose twin brother sailed with some Jeckells sails all the way to NZ and said they were in pretty good shape after such a long slow trip

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