Blue Chip Dinghy Sail Repair Service
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.
![]() 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 ![]() (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. |
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The following prices are typical, subject to sight and only given as a rough guide |
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Approx |
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Price* |
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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
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Confidence in our work |
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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; ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Workshop Location |
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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.![]() |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |