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Matthew
PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 9:05 am 
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I am using a spare mainsail while the boltrope is being repaired on my other mainsail and I noticed several of the stitched on black letters are coming apart on the spare. There are rips and cracks on a couple of the numbers.

Anyone have a cheap repair solution before they get any worse?

Thank you.
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srm
PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:40 pm 
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Use a seam ripper to carefully cut the stitches and then remove the numbers.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:35 pm 
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After you remove the old ones, get some insignia cloth and replace them IF you need them on the mainsail. You can buy insignia cloth at sailmakersupply.com. Basically it is stick on dacron. Great stuff for numbers as well as sail repairs.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 12:40 pm 
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How old is that sail if it has stitched on numbers? The numbers on my 1984 sail are not stitched on.

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MBounds
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:57 am 
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HobieMarty wrote:
How old is that sail if it has stitched on numbers? The numbers on my 1984 sail are not stitched on.

They weren't stitched on at the factory. Hobie Cat has never stitched the numbers on Hobie 16 sails.
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