Interesting. I do do "jumps". I mean take offs not necessarily followed by
landing on the board :-). (though it's been a while since I catapulted...
fingers crossed).

cheers

Alex



To: NW-WINDTALK@yahoogroups.com
From: firewood2005@...
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:04:42 -0700
Subject: Re: why do battens break?







A friend broke the 2 top battens on a 5.0 when he slammed down on a wave
in Kanaha. A catapult on to the battens will break them.

Alex Zotov wrote:
> I got a couple of battens broken on a 5.0 sail (#2 and #4 from the top). No
biggie/ easy to replace with the superb Sailworks support, but I am just curious
why do they break? The sail isn't that old, and in particular it's interesting
that 2 of them broke at the same time. I wonder if this may have been because I
overtightened them - I vaguely remember giving them just a bit of twist a few
sessions back because of a few minor wrinkles I spotted on the sail.
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with battens broken (and it generally feels really good); I guess the things do
have a reason to be there :-).
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