fabric damage from storm.

we had a good amount of wind a few days ago, 60mph+ , and I keep my pa12 at my cabin so before the winds hit I tied it down good and even cut down any tree's that could hit it if they blew over. unfortunately I still got some damage, a few shingles blew off the roof of my cabin and of course they hit the plane. one hit the left wing about 3 ribs in from the tip, there's a small hole in the fabric but the finishing tape over the stitching took the most damage as you can see. how would you all recommend going about fixing this? logs say its covered in ceconite.

Yep that appears to be Ceconite. Duct tape it up to fly it home. Get the Ceconite manual and follow the repair directions.
Appendix E http://www.conaircraft.com/ceconite-manual.pdf
It looks like a fairly simple repair. Basically you’re going to patch the hole with a bit of fabric and put a new tape on where the one separated.

"Red Green" and go.. it's the Canadian way !!

just cut that loose tape off it will get replaced, then duct tape over it to get home

When I read The first post my thought went to duct tape also. Just what everybody above said.

irishfield said:

"Red Green" and go.. it's the Canadian way !!

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Mans prayer....

I am a man
I can change
If I have to
I guess

Keep yer stick on the ice!

Well the snow has melted enough I can finally see the tops of my floats, another 2 weeks and hopefully the ice will be out of the lakes so that means its time to get the 12 ready. I'm getting ready to order everything to fix this damage, first of all they don't give away Ranthane that's for sure! one question I have that the ceconite manual didn't make clear to me was where my finishing tape got tore away do I remove the whole strip and replace it all. or just cut whats lose off, leave whats still attached and butt the new tape up to the existing. I don't want to replace it all because I have a blue leading edge which is more money in paint, another color to spray, and I don't even know the exact color it is. chances are if I do have to mess with the blue the repair will get painted white and I'll call it an accent stripe.

I'd overlap the new tape fore and aft. I don't have the manual here in front of me, but I think they give a distance?
John

they don't mention anything for the finishing tape specifically, but for a less then 8 inch hole only a 1 inch overlap on the patch with no need for finishing tape, and a greater then 8 inch hole requires 2 inches of overlap with the use of finishing tape on the seam. so I guess if I put 2 inches of overlap fore and aft I should be good.

Follow manual and also reference AC43.13 fabric repair procedure section to make sure you can reference proper technique

labrador_cub said:

they don't mention anything for the finishing tape specifically, but for a less then 8 inch hole only a 1 inch overlap on the patch with no need for finishing tape, and a greater then 8 inch hole requires 2 inches of overlap with the use of finishing tape on the seam. so I guess if I put 2 inches of overlap fore and aft I should be good.

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Yep, I'd say you'd be giving yourself a little extra cushion...not a bad thing.
John