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    Posted: 12 Feb 16 at 9:29am
Grant Piggot he tends to specialize in Cat sails but depending upon your cunning plan he may be suitable.
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Also a lot bigger but seem to be wanting to get back into one design stuff are Hydes
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There are far fewer than there used to be, e.g there is no dinghy loft with an hour and a half of Manchester.

Tim Harper?

Over an hour and a half for me, hence the comment.  He is my normal port of call for sail repairs.  Next closest are Andy at Impact and a kiwi guy in Harrogate.

It was much easier when Keith Atkinson was still in the trade.
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Originally posted by jaydub

There are far fewer than there used to be, e.g there is no dinghy loft with an hour and a half of Manchester.

Tim Harper?
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There was once an Association of British Sail Makers that used to have a full page ad in Y&Y magazine.

Prominent among them was the king of small sail makers:  Mike Mac http://mcnamara-sails.co.uk/

There are far fewer than there used to be, e.g there is no dinghy loft with an hour and a half of Manchester.
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No, I know there are lots of them, the same as there are lots of sailing clubs and regions, which is why it would be good to pull them altogether into a commercial list which I'm surprised hasn't been done before. It must have at some time in the past.
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I think there are probably more than most of us think....

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There's more than you think around:

Jon Clarke:  http://www.edgesails.com/
Tim Harper:  http://timharperboats.co.uk/sails
Dave Gebhard: http://www.tridentuk.com/gb/cover-sails/trident-sails.html

There's probably more that I could come up with if thought about it for more than 5 minutes. ;)

Speed sails are subcontract manufactured by Banks.  Jim Hunt and Andy 'Taxi' Davis who used to run the sailmaking side of Speeds are now HD sails.

Jim and Taxi at HD or Andy Tunnicliffe at Impact would be at or near the top of my list.




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