pull the sticker off then acetone, sometimes you need to let the acetone attack the glue first before you start to remove it with a cloth.

I'd say leave the stickers on unless essential to remove. Or, leave sticky stuff left on sail by sticker on the sail.

I was thinking of taking some stickers off a secondhand sail I bought a couple of years ago. I decided that anything I rubbed on the sail to remove sticky stuff would most probably not be good for monofilm - including things like lemon juice and eucalypus oil (which are great at removing sticky sh!t).

I have seen a web site (British) saying white spirit to remove the sticker residue from the sail. Does anybody know what white spirit is?

eucaliptus oil also removes glue and leaves your sail stinking pretty

Red,

White Spirits are also called Mineral Spirits. It is the duck tape of the northern hemisphere. I havent seen it anywhere in Oz, but havent had any reason to go looking for it. Try in hardware shops.
At home (The Emerald Isle), regardless of what you wanted to dissolve, white spirits was the first thing I would use, didnt matter if it were varnish, paint or glue.
Anothe cure all is SudoCream, it can heal any wound, whether graze, burn, cut or rash. In fact I am quite certain if you were to have a limb amputated, a generous layer of SudoCream would make it grow back.

JB

Red,

Go for it, more time for windsurfing. And I have plenty more labour saving ideas from where that came.

;-)

JB

I thought white spirits was methylated spirits

Eucaliptyus oil is gr8... but dont let it near the seams, they are glued with double sided tape n stitched, so can be weakened if the oil(or any solvent) gets on them.