Repair turnaround
Separate bench time from the days spent waiting.
Enter the repair stages and handoffs you actually expect. The plan shows whether the return date fits and which stage consumes the most calendar time.
Quick answer
Calculate turnaround from bench hours plus real waiting days
A sail repair date depends on more than the visible sewing time. Diagnosis, approval, material or hardware availability, inspection, rework allowance and the return handoff can each consume calendar days. Enter those waits separately from hands-on loft hours. The planner converts work to calendar time using your entered weekly capacity, adds every wait and buffer, and compares the total with the required return date.
The default repair example contains 29 hours of loft work, 11 external wait days and a five-day buffer. At 35 available hours per week, the work portion uses six calendar days and the full sequence uses 22. Replace every value with the current repair assessment before relying on the result.
Browser-local scenario
Plan the repair turnaround
Replace every example with your current quote, handoff and loft-capacity assumptions. Nothing leaves this page.
This worksheet does not recommend sail dimensions, cloth, construction, rig compatibility, passage timing or staffing, and it cannot promise a completion or delivery date.
What stays outside the result
Build a repair sequence that matches the actual job
Use intake and diagnosis for the time required to receive, open and assess the sail. Put customer approval, replacement cloth, tape, slides or hardware in wait days if that time does not consume bench capacity. Record cleaning, panel work, patching, recutting, stitching and finishing as work hours only when those tasks are part of the actual scope. Keep inspection and possible rework visible instead of assuming the first pass will always be final.
If the sail must be shipped in or returned, include the current carrier estimate as an external handoff. If it will be collected locally, replace that wait with the relevant pickup arrangement. A rush slot should be represented by the capacity actually reserved for this repair, not by deleting stages that still have to happen.
What a shortfall means
A negative slack result means the entered sequence cannot fit between the start and required dates at the entered capacity. It does not identify a safe shortcut. Test honest alternatives one at a time: an earlier intake, a later return, confirmed material availability, a smaller documented scope or additional reserved bench hours. The required weekly pace helps show whether a capacity change is plausible; external waits remain in the plan even when weekly work capacity rises.
Plan a different sail deadline
For a new-build workflow, return to the custom sail delivery deadline planner. If the main question is when planning must begin before a season or event, use the when-to-order calculator.