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  • 15 Mar 2017 00:03
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    Reply # 4667012 on 4648722
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    Peter, going back to your question of keep battens...

    Issue 71, June '16, Paul Fay of Ti Gitu wrote about doing away with his keep battens and finding that no problems resulted. Battens are bolted to the webbing at each end, and the eyelets are every 12" with a single lashing. Done good for 14 years which is what i want to hear as I quite like the idea of lashing for our conversion to 50+ square metre junk sloop on ANNIE. While cable ties sound like a quick job, they don't really do it for me aesthetically, and I'm a sucker for a bit of sailorising now and then... 

    Pol.

    p.s. great article about epoxy. Will be in touch about Biosolv. Any thinner/cleaner that doesnt make my skin want to stand on end must be a Good Thing! Years of carefree use of gum turps and pine tar caught up on me.
  • 14 Mar 2017 18:08
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    Yes, because the "boom" is in fact just another batten. However, if it's hinged and able to bend in all directions, care has to be taken to support it when the sail is reefed. I use a topping lift span attached to each of the forward and after parts of the batten, so as to keep them more or less in line horizontally.
  • 14 Mar 2017 16:15
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    Thank you David.

    Do you have the boom hinged as well? 
  • 09 Mar 2017 17:12
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    Vlad Sokolsky wrote:

    David

    How many hinges like that do you have in one batten? 

    Two hinges, at 30% and 55% of the batten length. Each half-angle is now 5 degrees, so 20 degrees of deflection in all.
  • 09 Mar 2017 16:35
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    David

    How many hinges like that do you have in one batten? 
  • 06 Mar 2017 23:55
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    Arne Kverneland wrote:

    I tried to make up for my too simple drawing by saying that the ties formed half-hitches…

    of course!
    but i thought – with the sail between it – someone could lose the exact track of the line…

    ueli
  • 06 Mar 2017 23:32
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    Thanks Ueli

    for making the drawing clearer. I tried to make up for my too simple drawing by saying that the ties formed half-hitches, which was to avoid the problem you spotted.

    Arne
  • 06 Mar 2017 18:52
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    hi chris

    thanks for the fix! – i just got around to place a thumbnail. (didn't work with 'iron'. i had to switch to another browser…)

    ueli
  • 06 Mar 2017 18:16
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    Ueli:

    edited your edit to stop text spilling off the page.

    Chris
  • 06 Mar 2017 18:08
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    hi arne

    i edited your image a little bit, just to fight a possible accident – hope this is ok.

    make sure to interlace the lines!

    Last modified: 06 Mar 2017 18:53 | Anonymous member
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