Doing damage to friend's sail.

Doing damage to friend's sail.

Post by Dmitry Avramen » Wed, 13 Jul 1994 04:51:30


Hello everyone,

Here is what happen to me this weekend:

I'm a beginner, but I think I'm ready for a harness.
 So at the end of the day I have decided to borrow my friend's board,
which has harness lines on it together with his harness.
Sure enough, being hooked for the first time, I fall forward on his sail and
tore it a bit. ( Not that bad though)

Now, of course I'm paying for the sail's repair. The question is this :
In the situation like this  should I also  buy his sail after it is
repaired to fully reimburse him for his damages? Or it is just enough to pay
for repairing? My friend wanted me to buy his sail before I tore it and I said
no to it a few times. Now I feel that I just ought to buy it.

Have anyone been in the situation like this and if yes, how did you handle it.?

Thanks.

Dmitry.

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Doing damage to friend's sail.

Post by SluxW » Wed, 13 Jul 1994 13:35:02


Quote:
>Hello everyone,

>Sure enough, being hooked for the first time, I fall forward on his sail and
>tore it a bit. ( Not that bad though)

>Now, of course I'm paying for the sail's repair. The question is this :
>In the situation like this  should I also  buy his sail after it is
>repaired to fully reimburse him for his damages? Or it is just enough to pay
>for repairing? My friend wanted me to buy his sail before I tore it and I said
>no to it a few times. Now I feel that I just ought to buy it.

>Have anyone been in the situation like this and if yes, how did you handle it.?

As long as you take the sail to a qualified repair shop (e.g. They know what
they are doing!), the sail should get repaired to almost good as new.  As long
as you pay for the repair of that panel, sleeve, whatever, then I wouldn't
feel obligated to buy that sail.
Those types of accidents happen.  You both assumed the responsibility of
something like that happening when you asked and he let you go out.

Brian

Quote:
>Thanks.
>Dmitry.


 
 
 

Doing damage to friend's sail.

Post by Wayne Berthiau » Fri, 15 Jul 1994 21:19:44


Quote:

> Hello everyone,

> Here is what happen to me this weekend:

> I'm a beginner, but I think I'm ready for a harness.
>  So at the end of the day I have decided to borrow my friend's board,
> which has harness lines on it together with his harness.
> Sure enough, being hooked for the first time, I fall forward on his sail and
> tore it a bit. ( Not that bad though)

> Now, of course I'm paying for the sail's repair. The question is this :
> In the situation like this  should I also  buy his sail after it is
> repaired to fully reimburse him for his damages? Or it is just enough to pay
> for repairing? My friend wanted me to buy his sail before I tore it
and I said
> no to it a few times. Now I feel that I just ought to buy it.

> Have anyone been in the situation like this and if yes, how did you
handle it.?

> Thanks.

> Dmitry.

> --

>            ./'. '||\\.       (\_/)       .//||` .`\.
>         ./'.|'.'||||\\|..    )o o(    ..|//||||`.`|.`\.
>      ./'..|'.|| |||||\`````` '`"'` ''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.

        He's not much of a friend if he insist that you by the repaired sail from
him. This same situation happened to me one day when a friend and I
shared a rig,
his sail my board. I repaired his sail. It's generally unspoken amongst us, as
we tend to borrow each others equipment frequently. Repair the damage. If he
insist that you buy the sail, find another "friend".

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