What to do with old sails?

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saulman
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What to do with old sails?

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Has anyone come up with any ideas for keeping their old pin top sails out of the landfill? -leaving them in the corner of the basement is no longer an option.

I've got a 4.2 wave sail a 6.0 all round sail and a 7.5 race sail thats mostly mylar.

Is anyone able to use these as they are?

Other ideas?

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Thrifty Foods has put them up in the produce section of their Fairfield store....
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The mylar small ones I suspect can be re-sewn into kiddie rigs or kayak sails to receive a new lease on life.

If they are post '93 they would make okay beginner rigs or dryland sailing/ skateboard sails?

The larger ones really do make a cool colorful van awning or a great addition to a playground, a shade you can suspend from trees over your kid's sandbox or a beach/bbq windbreak with some brilliant use of old fibreglass tent poles or PVC pipe.

Yes, I have seen them suspended in bars, maybe the rooftop beach volleyball court at the Stickey Wicket can use one to give things some color :?:
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Hammocks 8)
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Kite-rigging tarps! :twisted:

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get a bunch of them some old downhaul lines sow it all together and make a parachute. good for cliff jumping. OR you could make the wings for a homemade ultralight, isn't that what John Denver did?
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