Sail Courier
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Topic: Sail Courier
Posted By: Merlinboy
Subject: Sail Courier
Date Posted: 31 May 10 at 7:57am
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Morning all, Has anyone delivered a sail via a courier lately?? If so who did you use, i have a Laminate sail to deliver but its obviously rather long roled and i don't want to fold it!! |
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Posted By: MattK
Date Posted: 31 May 10 at 8:52am
| I had one delivered, in a massive cardboard tube, sent via a normal courier, cant remember which though, the tube did make it heavy and quite pricey though! |
Posted By: Roy Race
Date Posted: 31 May 10 at 11:51am
| Why don't you want to fold it? It's much easier to post sails this way. If it was a Merlin main, I would take the battens out, do big 1M wide flakes, with the luff rope stacked neatly at one end, then brick it along the width. You get a package 1M by 30 cm by 10cm. The battens (unless it's fully battened) won't be more than 1m long, so they can go in the same parcel. The only noticable effects will be about 5 or 6 horizontal creases, which will be very light and will shake out after a few tacks. Laminate is quite flexible and better than dacron for sending this way. Not a problem. |
Posted By: Roy Race
Date Posted: 31 May 10 at 12:01pm
A set of dacron Fireball sails flaked and bricked ready for posting. Jib, spinnaker, main and battens. |
Posted By: rs405
Date Posted: 31 May 10 at 12:36pm
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I had one posted to me once. I think the company was called Amtrack. It
came in a big cardboard prism shaped box. ------------- 420, 470, 405, laser 4000 |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 01 Jun 10 at 8:15am
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I use TNT for all my sail deliveries. Costs around £20 each time but
they are very good. ------------- |
Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 01 Jun 10 at 10:56am
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I had one sent to me by Fedex. Rolled in thick polythene and lashings of tape, it was fine. |
Posted By: bferry
Date Posted: 13 Jan 14 at 7:48am
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Any idea who would be cheapest in sending a sail from UK to Europe? ------------- Bernard Vareo 249 Miracle 2818 Malta |
Posted By: catmandoo
Date Posted: 13 Jan 14 at 1:54pm
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Google it , think i used inter parcel to send sail to croatia , also about uk , were very cheap , they bulk buy space and resell , often its the big names , dhl , etc that actually collect and deliver ------------- |
Posted By: bferry
Date Posted: 13 Jan 14 at 3:35pm
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Thanks for that. Just what I was looking for. ------------- Bernard Vareo 249 Miracle 2818 Malta |