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Jul. 28th, 2023 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrottieDon't remember how I found this stuff Solarez stuff. Maybe it was a rare useful product suggestion. It's a tube of one-part (pre-mixed or idk what) polyester resin that cures in UV light, which is just sunlight. It doesn't stick to plastic film. It doesn't set up in the tube after exposure to air like 3M 4200/5200. You can just dispense exactly as much as you need, instead of invariably mixing the wrong amount, and dispense it directly on to the repair, then take plastic wrap and cover and pull it taught to fair it. Did that to the chunks missing out of the windsurf board the other night. I might use a lot of this stuff on different things.
Also, just ordering Sunbrella acrylic fabric (plastic, plastic, more plastic) by the yard is vastly less expensive than having a "canvas" outfit custom make you a sail cover. There's no reason to leave your mainsail uncovered. 5 yards of heavy Sunbrella (same stuff premium sail covers are made from) was $45, with free shipping, on the fleabay. You don't have the fun little twist clasps. You could do that or snaps or something yourself, but just lashing it down with a bunch of bits of short line is fine. The mainsail is often the most expensive thing to replace on a sailboat, the sun is the enemy, and people just wreck them. I am not even joking. If you wanted a new Beta Marine marinized Kubota diesel engine, noting that a diesel is often an upgrade from gas on sailboats that raises the resale value a lot, with transmission, flex coupler, mounts, heat exchanger to keep raw water out of the engine, it would cost *less* than a new mainsail for the same size boat. And if you don't cover that shit with $45 worth of actually sun-resistant fabric, you're a moron. Incidentally, the engine is one of the few things that isn't plastic, like the sail or the sail cover. Maybe I just really like plastic idk.
Also, just ordering Sunbrella acrylic fabric (plastic, plastic, more plastic) by the yard is vastly less expensive than having a "canvas" outfit custom make you a sail cover. There's no reason to leave your mainsail uncovered. 5 yards of heavy Sunbrella (same stuff premium sail covers are made from) was $45, with free shipping, on the fleabay. You don't have the fun little twist clasps. You could do that or snaps or something yourself, but just lashing it down with a bunch of bits of short line is fine. The mainsail is often the most expensive thing to replace on a sailboat, the sun is the enemy, and people just wreck them. I am not even joking. If you wanted a new Beta Marine marinized Kubota diesel engine, noting that a diesel is often an upgrade from gas on sailboats that raises the resale value a lot, with transmission, flex coupler, mounts, heat exchanger to keep raw water out of the engine, it would cost *less* than a new mainsail for the same size boat. And if you don't cover that shit with $45 worth of actually sun-resistant fabric, you're a moron. Incidentally, the engine is one of the few things that isn't plastic, like the sail or the sail cover. Maybe I just really like plastic idk.
