I know many of you here also belong to the Catalina22 facebook group, but I'm sure there's plenty here who do not. I recently posted there about wanting to send my sails off to SailCare for their cleaning process. Although the intent of my post was to learn about the turn around time, I received a few responses advising me to avoid them. The issues brought up seemed valid enough to warrant doing some more research before rolling the dice with my own sails. Someone suggested that I spend my money on new sails instead. I get the whole "lipstick on a pig" argument, but my sail are far from being ready for retirement, I just want to keep them in as good a condition as possible for as long as possible, I'm not trying to salvage blown out rags. I did a bit of Googling and found mixed opinions, but my gut just tells me that most of the negatives stemmed from hoping a restoration process was gonna squeeze a few more seasons out of sails that should have been replace long before.
If you've used SailCare, please let me know if you would or wouldn't use them again, and why or why not. Did you notice any change in your sail's performance (positive or negative) afterward. If you already replied to the facebook post, please know that I appreciated your opinion and I'm not discounting any of it, I'm just looking for more insight from others before I either pull the trigger or push my tiller hard a'lee.
If you've used SailCare, please let me know if you would or wouldn't use them again, and why or why not. Did you notice any change in your sail's performance (positive or negative) afterward. If you already replied to the facebook post, please know that I appreciated your opinion and I'm not discounting any of it, I'm just looking for more insight from others before I either pull the trigger or push my tiller hard a'lee.