Hi Nigel and welcome to the forum.

At the risk of being obvious, but cleaning off the old gunk and using more double sided tape would be easiest.??

Not a sailman myself, but what are the sails made from?? Plastic or something…Mylar perhaps.

Ashley

Hi Nigel,

The HFM 590 is a great little yacht, I always had one in the car during 1980's just in case I saw a lake for a quick sail

The original sails were one piece of drafting film not panelled, your boat looks like it may have been raced, 3M invisible tape would work on film but you may haver to tape both sides.(not as good as the tape Tim uses)

The only thing that cut short their lives was the steel bar keel weight in the plastic bulb keel as they used to rust, but you maybe lucky.

They are great little yachts, I wish I still had mine.

Regards Ray

I get mine from SailsEtc.

Looking at your photos, there is reinforcement around the eyelets. Same sort of thing like I said is required at both ends of the join.

Tim R