[quote=svanlare]Andrew,
The sails are definitely old, but given it is just the boys and I out playing around on the lake, the fact that we don't get max performance from them I don't believe has been an issue for us. New sails are in my future, but I've been hoping to put that off a while longer. Not that I'm against a good excuse :-)
Chris,
I looked at the plates when I got home tonight, it is definitely the rivets that failed. There is a good deal of corrosion on the plates, and all the rivets that are left are missing their backside. The sail itself has 2 tears, one from the jib sheet block and one rivet hole, the rest of the holes are intact.
I'm thinking some sail tape, new clew plate and rivets then hopefully that gets me a couple more trips to the lake this summer/fall and then maybe new sails for Christmas.
Thanks for the advise and I'm off to Murray's.
-Steve[/quote]
No HTML tags allowed (except inside [code][/code] tags)
