I've heard of ironing it, hot air gun etc but as ugly as it may be I would just leave it. Probably make it weaker trying to fix it

A lot of plastics will return to their original shape with the correct amount of heat applied. However, getting that right balance can be the difference between a great job and, well, not so great

Boiling water. Easy fix and done it heaps of times

skyking1231 said..

kato said..
Boiling water. Easy fix and done it heaps of times

hmmmm.....I may give that a try. at least I will know it can only get so hot. even if it goes down a bit. what sucks is my sail was a day old .

LOL....... same for me got catapulted head first into the panel above the boom on my new 5.3 bum n jump sail first time out, probably only an hour into the session leaving a sizeable dent from my helmet, so thanks Kato might try the same thing

Mark _australia said..
Fill the dimple with Six10 then leave it for at least a week in a room with a fan on.

You would still have the bulge on the other side though unless you ground it down.

No one is thinking of the obvious , the sail would be bigger now , you would need to go down a size.

Mark _australia said..
Fill the dimple with Six10 then leave it for at least a week in a room with a fan on.

I must be getting old. It took me a while.

Can you let us know how the fix goes?

skyking1231 said..

kato said..
Boiling water. Easy fix and done it heaps of times

hmmmm.....I may give that a try. at least I will know it can only get so hot. even if it goes down a bit. what sucks is my sail was a day old .

I landed in the foot of my brand new 7.5m Turbo. I was so relieved to see no damage to the sail..I realised later I'd damaged my ribs instead... Still, they were good after
5 weeks..

Well.some of you probably already knew this. I tried the boiling water . It really didn't do much. I think it brought it down a bit. If i was to give it a percentage.maybe 15-20% improvement . Perhaps the water was not boiling..I was lazy and got the hot water from the Kureg machine. Anyway. I will leave it as be.not that big of a deal.

I was gonna take a heat gun to it..but I could see my self melting a hole through the sail..so I figured I better not.

skyking1231 said..
Well.some of you probably already knew this. I tried the boiling water . It really didn't do much. I think it brought it down a bit. If i was to give it a percentage.maybe 15-20% improvement . Perhaps the water was not boiling..I was lazy and got the hot water from the Kureg machine. Anyway. I will leave it as be.not that big of a deal.

I was gonna take a heat gun to it..but I could see my self melting a hole through the sail..so I figured I better not.

Wise not to take extreme measures. A hole in a sail is slower than a dimple. Besides, this young lass had dimples and it didn't seem to hurt her career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimples_(1936_film)