My 5m - 5.6m Loft Blades have travelled approx 10,000km(in the trailer) in the past year and half, in this time the sails developed fine scratch marks over the window monofilm from all the bouncing around while travelling.
The good news is that you can remove 90% of the scratches!

What you need is a drill and buff, Kitten cut and polish and some Vuplex.

Steps

1. lay a blanket on the ground to protect your sail from further scratches
2. apply a small amount of kitten cut and polish on the areas you need to clean up
3. with the drill and buff, buff the area until all the polish and scratches have gone
4. repeat on all areas that need cleaning up
5. once completed spray on some Vuplex spray and hand buff off the residue
and that's it the sails will come up looking like new, if the scratches are deep you wont get them out but they will virtually dissapear and wont look as ugly.

I also had a harness hook dent in my new 6.3 using an iron i placed a tea towel between the sail and iron and simply held it over the spot for approx 30 seconds at a time and the dent came out there's only a small crease mark now.

scratches in monofilm



drill with buff



Kitten cut & polish



Vuplex spray



Sail looks like new

Choco - that just way too much time on your hands

Thumbs up, Choco. Thanks for posting that.

awesome man, my brother brought a new sail a few months ago and has a few hook dints allready. i will let me him know about ya ideas on how to get them out.

Great Choco, can you do my sails for me when you are at Burrum next year

the vuplex also works as a water repellent similar to rainex.The water beads off the sails for the first few sail after its applied

Nice post - all my sails need this!

RE: Removing hook dents with an iron. What can go wrong? How hot an iron did you use? Just be careful, use common sense?

The buffer normally leaves a lot of half dried polish everywhere - did you get all that pinkish-cream coloured powder on the batten pockets etc?

screw that, i've got way more important things to do in my life than buff sails.

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Bertie said...

screw that, i've got way more important things to do in my life than buff sails.

Careful bertie you sound like a realist and that is bad news on these forums, take it from an expert!

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evlPanda said...

RE: Removing hook dents with an iron. What can go wrong? How hot an iron did you use? Just be careful, use common sense?

Hey Panda not sure what setting the iron was on(never used one) but all you do is check it after 10 or so seconds to be safe(remember to use a tea towel and dont put it directly onto the mono film), does'nt take long for the dent to come out.

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Bertie said...

screw that, i've got way more important things to do in my life than buff sails.

Bertie, only reason i buffed these sails is because they where only used 5m once, 5.6m 3 times and were new apart from these ugly rub marks, if the sails are older don't think i'll be doing it.

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Mark _australia said...

The buffer normally leaves a lot of half dried polish everywhere - did you get all that pinkish-cream coloured powder on the batten pockets etc?

didn't buff over the batten pockets, plus the vuplex cleans up all the residue

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choco said...

Bertie said...

screw that, i've got way more important things to do in my life than buff sails.

Bertie, only reason i buffed these sails is because they where only used 5m once, 5.6m 3 times and were new apart from these ugly rub marks, if the sails are older don't think i'll be doing it.

ok i'll pay that this time.... but look out

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Bertie said...

choco said...

Bertie said...

screw that, i've got way more important things to do in my life than buff sails.

Bertie, only reason i buffed these sails is because they where only used 5m once, 5.6m 3 times and were new apart from these ugly rub marks, if the sails are older don't think i'll be doing it.

ok i'll pay that this time.... but look out

Reality bites: I am never gunna a buy an 'as new' sail again - I'll bet its done 10,000 kms.

I think I'll just switch off now.

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Ben 555 said...

Choco - that just way too much time on your hands

yes he does