Your wish is my command Paul, A proper sail is n the go as we speak.

if you were stuck on a deserted island with no water...

you had cloth a sewing machine and power...

would you put on pockets, with a grommet in the luff and one in the leech, through them you could have a small line pulling them towards a hole at the end of the batten, making it truly 2 holes, since every stick has two ends...

if I could find battens with 1 end only of course I would drill only 1 hole, yet for now that option seems a touch out of reach...

So how about the previous option, tension luff and leech with lanyards going into a hole at the end of the batten, which will surely be 5 cm longer than the sail.

5 cm enough, or more???

Depends on normal, to light stretch of my material over 4 meters. So is 5 enough??

7 seems better.

how would you do it? remember you are on a deserted island...

Keep Junking my friend

Anonymous wrote:

Beautiful idea, requires a lot of space though.

Thanks Thomas.

Outdoors in the right conditions could work too, but you have a valid point....

Keep Junking

This is the easiest way I found to connect battens directly to the sail, yet keeping good shape and minimising creases...

Screwing battens slightly off results in ugly creases, mistakes also can't be rectified before rigging on boat...

The Scaffolding System helps me tweak the cloth, see the camber and correct any imperfections before it's too late.

Keep Junking 

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