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Blue Chip Dinghy Sail Repair Service

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Blue Chip Express Repairs is the largest board & sail repair workshop facility in the UK. We repair all makes of boards and sails here on the premises to insurance standards. Most of our repairs are completely invisible. All of our repair work carries a Blue Chip Guarantee..

Brian Johncey's Blue Chip Sailboards trading as Blue Chip Repairs, is an entirely separate business from the retail store, offering repairs to the water sports enthusiast.
Blue Chip sail repair service; repairs dingy sails, catamaran sails, spinnakers, kites, windsurfing sails,
Blue Chip board repairs service; repairs surfboards, kite boards, inflatable boards.
Brian Johncey operates his sole trader repair business from a workshop which is conveniently located in a separate building to the rear of the Blue Chip Board Store. The repair workshop can be accessed from Abbots Road or through the rear door of the Board Store.



Online Sail Repair Estimate:
If in doubt as to what you may need to fix your Sail
you can send us an image no larger than 2MB and description of the
damage by clicking here
(image attachments larger than 2 MB and all zip files will be blocked by our system) 
Due to receiving so many phishing and emails with spurious attachments,
we do not click on links, open zip files or open any attachments apart
from images sent in regular jpeg or gif formats

Please Note:
We cannot give cost estimates or timescales for
repairs without either seeing the sail or an image.
NOTE:
We will only download emails with attachments up to 2MB so please only send lo res images
in either "jpg" or "gif" formats of less than 2MB per email, anything larger, we will not receive.

* The following prices are typical, subject to sight and only given as a rough guide

 

Approx

 

Price*

Bolt rope  (simple)

Up to 20cm

£25

Bolt rope  (simple)

Up to 21cm – 40cm

£30

Bolt rope and end cap for batten

Up to 20cm

£35

Bolt rope and end cap for batten

Up to 21cm – 40cm

£35

Bolt rope and end cap for batten

29er, 49er

£35

Bolt rope and end cap for batten

Non Standard

£40

Bolt rope and Tack or Head Eyelet rebuild

Non Standard

£70

Inox Eyelet 12mm

Old ring missing

£25

Inox Eyelet 15mm

Old ring missing

£35

Inox Eyelet 20mm

Old ring missing

£30

Inox Eyelet 12mm

Removing the old ring

£35

Inox Eyelet 15mm

Removing the old ring

£38

Inox Eyelet 20mm

Removing the old ring

£40

Inox Eyelet 20mm and 8 mm slug (on an accessible area)

Removing the old ring

£60

English grommet size 0

Old ring missing

£20

English grommet size 3

Old ring missing

£25

English grommet size 0

Removing the old ring

£30

English grommet size 3

Removing the old ring

£35

Laser 4000 window

Typically

£40

Laser 4000 Batten pocket

Typically

£35

Laser 4000 shroud wear patch

Typically

£35

Laser /Pico/Topper head webbing

Typically

£45

Laser /Pico/Topper Luff tube repair  (from say a broken mast)

Typically

£60

Laser /Pico/Topper Sail Tear

Typically

£30

Laser /Pico/Topper batten pocket

Typically

£15

Laser /Pico/Topper Window

Typically

£40

Spinnaker patch

Typically

£35

Jib repair

Typically

£35

RS400 Batten pocket and end cap

Typically

£45

Boat Cover repair

Typically

£40

Trampoline repair

Typically

£50

 

Blue Chip Express Repairs is one of the largest board & sail repair workshop facility in the UK.
 We repair all makes of boards and sails here on the premises to insurance standards and our own high Blue Chip standards
Click here to check out our repairs gallery
Confidence in our work
 All of our repair work carries a Blue Chip guarantee.
Trade customers We repair sails for many well known and less well known retail outlets and training schools
We are approved insurance repairers for
 Eagle Star, General Accident, Prudential, Northern Star, Viking Sail Safe, Bishop Skinner, Colin Curtis, Douglas Cox Tyrie, HSBC Gibbs, Newton Crum, Noble Marine
We repair all types of
construction :-		 We carry a wide variety of sail cloths, monofilms in 100mic, 125mic, 150mic, 175mic, 200mic, 250mic. and reinforced monofilms; here is a selection of some of the reinforced specialist monofilm cloths that we stock;

Workshop Location
Sail Damage location report form
 If you are sending in your sail for repair, please download and fill out our damage location report form. instructions such as "the damage is obvious" will not be acted upon, we need detailed instructions of what you want us to repair.

In our experience, transport companies are not the most caring when transporting your board, therefore please take notice of our packing advice by clicking here
Packing your sail In our experience, transport companies are not the most caring when transporting your sail, therefore please take notice of our packing advice by clicking here
Transit costs for sails If you have difficulty in getting your sail to us, we can arrange for our appointed carriers to collect your correctly packed sail and deliver it to us for repair and then re-deliver it back to you once repaired. At the moment our carriers charge £55 for this service if your packed sail is less than 150cm in length and a total packet weight of less than 15kg. (note: this service is only available to UK mainland addresses)  The carriers will not accept consignments that excede these dimensions. (freight charges vary from week to week, for an accurate freight charge, please supply full dimensions of the paced sail)
If you can drop off your sail and need us to send it back to you, the freight charge will then be just £30 for the return journey. 
NOTE:- Smaller sails that fold into a bag of say 60 cm x 50 cm, (e.g. Laser radial) the freight charges will be about £40 to collect and £20 to return

Note:

 

2.

Unfortunately, the carriers cannot give a timed specific collection / delivery service, nor can they offer either  a PM or AM time slot, only offence hours Monday to Friday 

3.

This service is only available for UK mainland addresses

4.

The prices given above are for our standard delivery/collection service and subject to our Standard delivery / collection surcharges

5.

We do not return sails without a signature being required

How to arrange collection of your sail Click here to send an email where you can request a collection of your sail
 IMPORTANT INSURANCE and Packing your sail/s advice
When we contact you with a firm price, if you decide to go ahead, just confirm everything is OK by replying to our email.
Express Sail Repairs The Blue Chip Express Repair Service means just that. Once we have the sail we can complete the repair within 24 hours, often less, depending on the work involved. If you have a problem getting your sail to us, we can arrange an insured overnight service from you to us and back to you.
If you require the Express repair service you must specify this at the outset as we will need to build this into our schedule and cost appraisal.
Board and sail storage charges for repaired equipment left beyond the QRCD (quoted repair completion date)

Due to the amount of work we are now asked to undertake by private customers, insurance companies and trade work for other shops, together with a lack of storage space within our workshop, we cannot accommodate storage of finished boards and sails in our workshops for more than 10 days after the QRCD. However we now operate a secure post storage service.
Click here for board and sail storage charges for repaired equipment left beyond the QRCD (quoted repair completion date)