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Ugly_Bird
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hitech
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I would try one of the sail makers. The cam and shims look similar to my Sailworks NX from a few years ago so call Bruce Peterson at Sailworks and see if he can help you out. If it is not current, they do sail repair and might have something available.
Good luck
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thombiz
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I've repaired about 8000 sails and I've only seen the plastic batten end pocket a few times. The most recent one I saw was on a Neil Pryde. The problem with the part you need is it needs salt water resistant rivets to be installed. You could substitute an endpocket made from nylon webbing, which could be sewn on. Bruce Peterson would have the nylon webbing substitute.
The nylon webbing substitute would work perfectly well, and is the standard solution for just about every other manufacturer of cammed sails.
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Ugly_Bird
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| hitech wrote: | I would try one of the sail makers. The cam and shims look similar to my Sailworks NX from a few years ago so call Bruce Peterson at Sailworks and see if he can help you out. If it is not current, they do sail repair and might have something available.
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Thank you! I did contact them. Bruce was super helpful. Got the parts a few days ago. They should work. Though, the holes for rivets are not at the same place as on the original part. I'll try to get the original part form the manufacturer. Otherwise will use what I've got already.
Andrei.
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Ugly_Bird
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| thombiz wrote: | I've repaired about 8000 sails and I've only seen the plastic batten end pocket a few times. The most recent one I saw was on a Neil Pryde. The problem with the part you need is it needs salt water resistant rivets to be installed. You could substitute an endpocket made from nylon webbing, which could be sewn on. Bruce Peterson would have the nylon webbing substitute.
The nylon webbing substitute would work perfectly well, and is the standard solution for just about every other manufacturer of cammed sails. |
Thank you Thombiz!
Those part come with semi-tubular rivets. I assume they are made of proper material. Also, I mostly sail on the lakes with fresh water. Our local sailing club has stock of rivets. So, OK regarding those. While waiting for the original part, I did repair the sail using webbing. I sewn the webbing on manually. Took some time and patience. It works really well. I'm very surprised that the sail didn't have webbing originally. Somewhat insufficient design. Batten pushing into 1mm plastic and the cam wearing the part out? It was designed for failure. When the part comes I'll put it over the webbing for extra robustness. Will see.
Andrei.
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