Anonymous wrote:

There is not much wrong in using hose clamps, as I have used them for years. Just wrap some stout tape over them to cover the nuts and pointy bits. Later, if these turn out to rust, they can be replaced with some sort of rolling hitch.

Good luck!
Arne

Sorry, Hans-Erik,

but I am a little pressed for times these days. Our summer doesn’t last forever, and the fine days we still enjoy here, must be spent on better things than writing. These days I am spending the mornings painting a wall on my house (before the wind picks up and the sun starts shining on the wall), and in the afternoons I like to sail, but this night I got a call from Svein Magnus in Samson, so tomorrow I will go up the  in Samson’s main mast to sort out a halyard  -  maybe followed by a test sail.

There is not much wrong in using hose clamps, as I have used them for years. Just wrap some stout tape over them to cover the nuts and pointy bits. Later, if these turn out to rust, they can be replaced with some sort of rolling hitch.

Good luck!
Arne

Scott,
my other reason for not just replacing the rusty hose clamps with new ones, is the same as yours  -  to avoid ‘screw heads and pointy parts’. That said; there has been no damages caused by these.

That red and white material is just tape. I put it under the hose clamps to avoid corrosion, and I didn’t bother with removing it when going Dyneema. Thanks to that little white ‘safety string, that lashing will never slip.

Arne

Anonymous wrote:

Hi Scott,

I cannot recall who wrote about having cut up his wife's yoga mat to pad the vinyl batten pockets at the mast but thought it such a great idea.

Not having a wife, let alone one who has a yoga mat, I purchased two to use in making the sail for Jasmine.

As to the 'slippage' of your batten parrels I am using 25mm webbing and plan to attach them to the battens as Arne did on Ingeborg using hose clamps.

This weekend, before going on a Sunday sail, I replaced all those hoseclamps on the battens with firm lashings of 2mm Dyneema line. The reason was that the hoseclamps bled rust onto the sail. The method appeared to work very well. The lashing, generally consisting of 4-6 single overhand knots, was tied as firmly as I could without tools, and then the final knot was tripled and fused. This is not nearly as taut as the hoseclamp, so a little helping line was added to the backside of it and then stitched to the batten pocked (see white string). Its job is just to get the rolling hitch effect of the lashing ’started’. There is no load to speak of at that white string when the rolling hitch effect of the lashing sets in.

I plan to make a more comprehensive write-up about it, and then incorporate the lashing of the halyard to the yard.

Cheers,
Arne

Hi Scott,

I cannot recall who wrote about having cut up his wife's yoga mat to pad the vinyl batten pockets at the mast but thought it such a great idea.

Not having a wife, let alone one who has a yoga mat, I purchased two to use in making the sail for Jasmine.

As to the 'slippage' of your batten parrels I am using 25mm webbing and plan to attach them to the battens as Arne did on Ingeborg using hose clamps.