Trans Ocean Sail Repair Kit
January 11, 2005   
 Below are the items I pack in my repair kit when doing long distance races. I also have a metal clew/tack/head board made up that can be bolted to a sail instead of trying to sew on new webbing and rings. You just sandwich the sail material and use a drill and drill bit to go through the thick corner of the sail and then bolt the thing on. Crude but effective. A bottle of rubbing alchol or acetone and some paper towel is a must to get the sail dry before attempting a repair.
- One pair stainless steel scissors
- One pair regular scissors as a backup
- One knife dedicated to sail repair
- Staple gun and staples
- Six awls to secure the sail while patching
- Two dozen pushpins
- One adjustable palm for hand-sewing sails
- Three seam rippers
- Selection of needles, size No. 14 and No. 15
- One roll prewaxed hand-sewing thread
- One roll of five-inch sticky back Dacron tape
- 10 feet of sticky back Dacron 54 inches wide
- Five rolls of double-stick tape
- Two cans of spray adhesive
- Three-quarter-inch tubular Nylon webbing
- Two-inch Nylon webbing
- Two stainless steel rings with bar
- 10 feet of Velcro
- Assorted pieces of Dacron and Nylon
- Spare set of battens – or at least 2 of the longest length you have store them if you have room in the boom
- Spare hanks
- Spare luff tape the length of your longest headsail
- Leech-line cord twice the length of your mastÂ
- Entire corner patch of one of your spinnakers
- Hot knife
- Nicopress tool and sleeves
- Hole cutter and assorted rings
- 20 feet of seizing wire
- 4200 large tubes with caulking gun – it will go off in water and creates a quick strong repair
- Sewing machine
- Spinnaker material the weight of your heaviest kite and a piece roll width and the length of our largest spinnaker foot.
- Sticky back aramid patch
- Spectra lashing