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Mainsail battens - Fibreglass v Carbon


MikeL

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Has anyone used Carbon full length battens to help reduce the weight of the sail when hosting etc. Have a Farr 1020 with 4 x full length battens (1.5m - 2.5m - 3.5m and 4.2m long) Expensive to buy new. Is there a second hand market for carbon battens?

 

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I have 35-ish years of experience of a fully battened mainsail (square top at that for the last 22 years) of about 30 sqm and I don't think the weight of the battens is what bothers you if you have problems hoisting your sail. I would take a look a at what I could do about friction. In my case it helps a lot to clean the luff grove of the mast. Batten pocket hardware and how the sailmaker positioned it relative to the bolt rope also plays a sigificant role.

All this assumes bolt rope in luff groove. Dirt and friction are factors regardless.

/Martin

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