We have been tinkering with an iPad cover made from recycled sails for some time.   Many others on the market and we have spent some time researching what works best with sailcloth and we have finally come up with the following.   Still R&D, but almost there.   Colour options will follow.

Features that make it work well are as follows:  envelope opening, safer, secure, just looks better, doesn’t let any bits in with the precious ipad.  Reclaimed padding inside, small velcro fastening, covered with tag to hide stictching and ends (nice finish), soft lining and nothing inside to scratch surface.

Our good friends Rapanui have recently been discussing the circular economy with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which got us thinking about our sail recycling programme.

Regular readers will know our ambitions to be able to shred unusable sails and sell this back to manufacturing, but why not push that even further and say that a sail could be wholly reused without the need to produce new material ever again.   A tall order?  I read recently from another entrepreneur that ‘great athletes set impossible goals and achieve so much by getting half way there…’  (Gil Penchina in Wired).  Well, for one I don’t think it is impossible, but yes it is a big challenge and I am due to speak to the Foundation about how we can make this happen.

We have touched upon the cradle to cradle approach for sail manufacturing before and at the recycling end we believe we can shred sails and sailcloth to a material that is acceptable for use back into manufacturing.  The challenge is making sails from material that can be wholly recycled back into the making of a new sail.

The Island is alive with such forward thinking and we hope to play our part by being the first sail recyclers on the planet!

With deckchairs being the talk of the day, our attentions turned to putting one up.  How hard can it be…….?!

So we went out onto the field (didn’t want to get sand on customers chairs) and shot the following video that shows you exactly how not to and how to put up a deckchair.

Thanks to our customers who provided the use of their future deckchair to be used in this video.  No deckchairs were harmed in the making of this video.