Arne wrote:
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

I thought about using hose clamps but I could never bring myself to accept having screw heads and other pointy parts of the clamps right where the sail bundle stacks up firmly against the mast.
The simple hitches I have at this location, aft of the mast, have not given me any problems. Honestly they look like they would work themselves loose, but they have not.
I have the batten parrels running out to the forward end of the batten and then each one looping back on itself and held there with a rolling hitch. This is the hitch that is 'pushed' by the mast and slips over time.
Arne, what is the red and white material under the Dyneema lashing? I have been thinking about doing something similar, but using the same grip tape (friction tape) I used to attach the halyard
Scott.