SAIL AND CANVAS CLEANING VACUWASH AUSTRALIA
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Alexandra Shackleton sail clean

3/15/2020

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Along the lines of really cool and interesting jobs that I have done while at Vacuwash, cleaning the sails off the Alexandra Shackleton back in 2015 is definitely number one. On the off chance you don't know about this boat, The Alexandra Shackleton is a replica of the James Caird that Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed from Elephant Island to South Georgia, (which in itself is a great story).
The replica was sailed by Aussie explorer Tim Jarvis AM, re-enacting  Shackleton's famous trip, the boat was thence exhibited at the Australian National Maritime Museum. 
Unfortunately the sails, which were also exact replicas, did not survive the storage and transportation back to Australia. When I received them they were a sodden mess of wet, thick mouldy traditional canvas and lines, even the Australian flag stitched onto the mizzen needed help.
As a display vessel only now, I was able to clean the sails to how they would have looked when new, much to the delight of the Museum.
The visitors to the exhibition were none the wiser to the previous state of the sails, unless they now read this blog!

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