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Tony:
Hi, Julian.

Yup. Someone has got themselves a nice boat there.

Tell me. What do you think of the mainsail on BC20 No2 ?

Julian Swindell:
Hi Tony
I don't have any experience of the fully battened sail. I am sure it gives better shape and may stop it flogging about in stays. I have heard that full battens can make it more fiddly to bend on the sail in the first place. I think fully battened possibly looks a bit better than the single high full length batten I have, but not enough to make me want to change.
One very useful use of the full batten last year was poking out a stone that was jamming my centre board! I just couldn't shift it by banging the board and thought"If only I had a long, narrow. rigid strip of something to poke down the slot", and then I remembered that I did. Only took a minute to get it out of the sail and it worked a treat. So now my batten justifies its presence on the boat, with at least two uses.

Brian Robertson:
The fully battened sail works well, it is much easier to control the upper sail shape and it helps the sail flake when lowering.  The only annoyance is that the battens tend to foul the lazy-jacks when hoisting.


BC20 05  Amy Pearl

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