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Recycle Your Sail With Sea Bags

Recycle Your Sail With Sea Bags

Every Sea Bag is handcrafted from recycled sail material. With our network of devoted sail traders, Sea Bags has kept 1.5 million lbs of sail cloth from the landfill. We make the process of trading a sail easy for you - give new life to an old sail and recycle it with us.

How to Recycle Your Old Sails

How to Recycle Your Old Sails

Stop into One of Our Retail Stores

You can trade a sail in person at any of our retail store locations with one of our friendly and well-versed sales associates. They will take care of getting it to Portland, Maine where it will begin its Sea Bags journey. A sales associate team member will arrange your trade based on the material, condition, and size of your sail, and we will offer you a Sea Bags product to take home as a thank you.

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Other ways to trade your sails with us

Other ways to trade your sails with us

• Donate the value of your trade to SailMaine in support of children's sailing scholarships

• Host a sail drive as a fundraiser

• Contact your local sail loft and see if they have a relationship with Sea Bags

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What Our Sail Trade Customers Are Saying

What Our Sail Trade Customers Are Saying

"We were looking for an opportunity to share the memory of our sailing adventures with our family. Sea Bags made this happen by allowing us to recycle our old sails and in return create memories for our family through their great products. Thank you so much!” –Charlie

"Great product, great company. We were so very happy to find a place that would re-purpose our old sails. Sea Bags made the process a breeze from start to finish. We are extremely happy with the bags we received in trade for our sails. Sean was super to work with! Could not be happier!” –Erica

"It's awesome and eco-friendly that a worn and well-loved sail can be donated to us and traded for merchandise that we can utilize to help raise funds for our sailing school. All the while, Sea Bags turns our old sails into beautiful, upcycled, and useful items that will last for many years.” – Diane

A Sail Trade Story

A Sail Trade Story

Ben Ford, born and raised in San Francisco, and a longtime lover of sailing and boats, came to our Sail Acquisition Program through a chance encounter with a Sea Bags employee. He purchased his first sailboat, a Santana 22, at age fifteen and couldn't bring himself to get rid of the sails even though the boat had been retired for some time. He saw our Sail Acquisition Program as a way to hold onto a little piece of his first boat, while giving its sails new life and purpose.

Sustainable from the start—shaped by three pillars.

Sustainable from the start—shaped by three pillars.

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